Yale University Press

Yale University Press is the <a href="/facts/University_press/3bbHHueY">university press</a> of <a href="/facts/Yale_University/KUdS6jt1">Yale University</a>. It was founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day and <a href="/facts/Clarence_Day/Pu4tRzsx">Clarence Day</a>, grandsons of <a href="/facts/Benjamin_Day_(publisher)/C5KjHEHX">Benjamin Day</a>, and became a <a href="/facts/Academic_department/3P59yHGT">department</a> of <a href="/facts/Yale_University/KUdS6jt1">Yale University</a> in 1961, but it remains financially and operationally autonomous.
As of 2020, Yale University Press publishes approximately 300 new <a href="/facts/Hardcover/YTsWyoVz">hardcover</a> and 150 new <a href="/facts/Paperback/mBszwF9p">paperback</a> books annually and has a backlist of about 5,000 books in print. Its books have won five <a href="/facts/National_Book_Award/r4NzI66B">National Book Awards</a>, two <a href="/facts/National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award/K8Ykcnnm">National Book Critics Circle Awards</a> and eight <a href="/facts/Pulitzer_Prize/wD4PN6Xs">Pulitzer Prizes</a>.
The press maintains offices in <a href="/facts/New_Haven%2c_Connecticut/dRanslgz">New Haven, Connecticut</a> and <a href="/facts/London/KozCCsy9">London, England</a>. Yale is the only American university press with a full-scale publishing operation in Europe. It was a co-founder of the distributor TriLiteral LLC with <a href="/facts/MIT_Press/eTerUM3c">MIT Press</a> and <a href="/facts/Harvard_University_Press/YluAnq74">Harvard University Press</a>. TriLiteral was sold to <a href="/facts/LSC_Communications/1hNRNk7o">LSC Communications</a> in 2018.

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