{{Short description|American publishing house}} {{Infobox publisher | image = Ten Speed Press logo.png | parent = Crown Publishing Group (Random House) | status = | founded = {{start year and age|1971}} | founder = Phil Wood<ref name="berkeleyside-2011/06/30">{{cite news |title=In memoriam: Phil Wood, founder of Ten Speed Press |url=https://www.berkeleyside.org//in-memoriam-phil-wood-founder-of-ten-speed-press |access-date=31 July 2022 |work=Berkeleyside |date=30 June 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Fisher |first1=Lawrence M. |title=Big Books from Small Houses |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/23/business/big-books-from-small-houses.html |access-date=31 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=23 March 1986}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=A Way With Weird : Ten Speed Press Founder Phil Wood Has Made a Small Fortune Publishing Books No One Could Imagine in Print |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-12-08-vw-1208-story.html |access-date=31 July 2022 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=8 December 1988}}</ref><ref name="sfgate-2452749">{{cite news |last1=Lagos |first1=Marisa |title=Phil Wood, founder of Ten Speed Press, dies at 72 |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Phil-Wood-founder-of-Ten-Speed-Press-dies-at-72-2452749.php |access-date=31 July 2022 |work=SFGATE |date=20 December 2010}}</ref> | successor = | country = United States | headquarters = | distribution = | keypeople = | publications = Books | topics = | genre = | imprints = Lorena Jones, 4 Color, Watson-Guptill | revenue = | numemployees = | nasdaq = | url = {{URL|http://crownpublishing.com/archives/imprint/ten-speed-press|crownpublishing.com/ten-speed-press}} }}
'''Ten Speed Press''' is a publishing house founded in Berkeley, California, in 1971 by Phil Wood.<ref>[http://tenspeed.crownpublishing.com/about/ About Ten Speed Press]</ref> It was bought by Random House in February 2009 and became part of their Crown Publishing Group division.
Ten Speed's all-time best-seller is ''What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers'' by Richard N. Bolles (1972). It has been reissued in new editions and, as of 2009, has sold more than ten million copies, translated into 20 languages.<ref>[http://www.randomhouse.com/book/197911/what-color-is-your-parachute-2009-by-richard-n-bolles/9781580089302/ What color is your parachute]</ref>
Ten Speed has published numerous other non-fiction titles, including ''Moosewood Cookbook'', ''White Trash Cooking,'' ''Why Cats Paint,'' ''The Bread Baker's Apprentice'', ''Vegetable Literacy,'' Yotam Ottolenghi's ''Jerusalem'', ''Franklin Barbecue'', and Marie Kondo's ''The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up'' (2014). The books are usually colorfully designed. They are sometimes published in odd shapes to match their whimsical subjects. Ten Speed Press publishes 150 books a year under all of its imprints.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Margolin |first1=Malcolm |author1-link=Malcolm Margolin |title=Berkeley Publishing in the 1970s |journal=Sisyphus |date=7 October 2017 |url=https://sisyphuslitmag.org/2017/10/berkeley-publishing-in-the-1970s/ |access-date=31 July 2022}}</ref>
==History== Founder Phil Wood worked with Barnes & Noble in 1962, Penguin Books in 1965, and had a senior sales position at Penguin Books in Baltimore and New York before founding Ten Speed Press in 1971.<ref name="bizjournals-sf-2001/01/29">{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Steven E. F. |title=Full speed ahead |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2001/01/29/smallb1.html |access-date=31 July 2022 |work=San Francisco Business Times |publisher=American City Business Journals |date=26 January 2001 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021022234246/https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2001/01/29/smallb1.html |archive-date=22 October 2002 |quote=But when they turned down a book he thought would sell, he published it on his own and watched it hit sales of 1,000 copies a day. Because the book was ''Anybody's Bike Book'', he called his new company Ten Speed Press.}}</ref>
Ten Speed's first book was Tom Cuthbertson's ''Anybody's Bike Book'',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cuthbertson |first1=Tom |title=Anybody's Bike Book: An Original Manual of Bicycle Repairs |date=1971 |publisher=Ten Speed Press |isbn=978-0-913668-00-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jk3Kq-n_UuwC}}</ref><ref name="isbn=978-0-89815-996-7">{{cite book |last1=Cuthbertson |first1=Tom |title=Anybody's Bike Book |date=1998 |publisher=Ten Speed Press |isbn=978-0-89815-996-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZbJwAEACAAJ |quote=Tom Cuthbertson was Ten Speed Press's first author, and his friendly bicycle repair manual not only inspired the name of our company, it made bicycle repair accessible for the casual and serious cyclist. As the technology of bicycles has evolved, so has his classic book.}}</ref> which is still in print. It inspired the publisher's name and has sold more than a million copies.<ref name="isbn=978-0-89815-996-7"/>
In 1983, Ten Speed acquired Celestial Arts (Millbrae, CA),<ref>{{cite news |last1=Walters |first1=Ray |title=PAPERBACK TALK |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/21/archives/paperback-talk-paperback-talk.html |access-date=31 July 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=21 January 1979}}</ref> "founded in the late 1960s as a printer of rock music posters,"<ref name="bizjournals-sf-2001/01/29"/> from Gary Kurtz,<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Star Wars money buys Celestial Arts |url=<!-- https://archive.org/details/Starship_35_1979-Summer_was_Algol_madmaxau -->https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/FZ/STA_1979_2.pdf |magazine=Starship #35 |access-date=31 July 2022 |date=Summer 1979 |page=48 |quote=Meredith Kurtz...}}</ref> a ''Star Wars'' producer.<ref name="About">{{cite web |publisher=Crown Publishing Group |access-date=2010-04-02 |url=http://tenspeed.crownpublishing.com/about/ |title=About Ten Speed Press & Tricycle Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asitecalledfred.com/2010/08/12/gary-kurtz-interview/9/|title=From the Vault: An interview with Gary Kurtz|publisher=Fred Entertainment|last=Plaume|first=Ken|accessdate=7 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|author1=Barks, Carl |author2=Summer, Edward |author3=Walt Disney Productions |title=Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life & Times |date=1981 |publisher= Celestial Arts|isbn=978-0-89087-290-1}}</ref>
In 2002, the company acquired Crossing Press, a publisher specializing in metaphysics, alternative lifestyles, and healing.<ref name="About"/>
By 2009, the company published under its four imprints — Ten Speed Press, Celestial Arts, Crossing Press, and Tricycle Press — more than 100 new hardcovers and trade paperbacks annually, and had a backlist of more than 1,000 active titles.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Random House |access-date=2010-04-02 |url=http://www.randomhouse.biz/media/pdfs/TenSpeedPress.pdf |title=Random House, Inc. Acquires Ten Speed Press For The Crown Publishing Group}}</ref>
Ten Speed Press was bought by Random House in February 2009 and became part of their Crown Publishing Group division. Founder Phil Wood died of cancer in December 2010.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Tribute to Phil Wood|url=http://ten-speed.crownpublishing.com/2010/12/14/a-tribute-to-phil-wood/|date=2010-12-14|publisher=Ten Speed Press|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101218222133/http://ten-speed.crownpublishing.com/2010/12/14/a-tribute-to-phil-wood/|archive-date=2010-12-18|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Watson-Guptill became an imprint of Ten Speed Press under Random House in 2013, part of their Crown Publishing Group.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Crown Shifts Watson-Guptill, Amphoto, Potter Craft| work =Publishers Weekly| access-date = 2018-11-22| url = https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/57697-crown-shifts-watson-guptill-amphoto-potter-craft.html}}</ref>
==Tricycle Press== Tricycle Press was the children's imprint of Ten Speed Press, which published the ''Amelia's Notebooks'' series,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Berry |first1=Michael |title=Berkeley author Marissa Moss says goodby to Amelia, a character that has delighted readers for 20 years |url=https://www.berkeleyside.org/2015/05/18/berkeley-author-marissa-moss-says-goodby-to-amelia-a-character-that-has-delighted-readers-for-20-years |access-date=16 March 2024 |publisher=Berkeleyside |date=28 May 2015}}</ref> among others. Tricycle also published ''Who's in a Family?'' in 1997 and ''King & King'' in 2002,<ref>{{cite web |title=LGBTQIA+ Resources for Children: A Bibliography |url=https://www.ala.org/rt/rrt/popularresources/children |website=American Library Association |access-date=16 March 2024}}</ref> books that addressed different types of families, including those headed by gay parents. The imprint ceased publishing new books in 2011.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rosen |first1=Judith |title=Random House to Shutter Tricycle Press |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/45223-random-house-to-shutter-tricycle-press.html |access-date=16 March 2024 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=17 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Yin |first1=Maryann |title=Random House Will Shutter Tricycle Press |url=https://www.adweek.com/galleycat/random-house-will-shutter-tricycle-press/18300 |access-date=16 March 2024 |publisher=GalleyCat |date=18 November 2010}}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://crownpublishing.com/archives/imprint/ten-speed-press Ten Speed Press]
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