W.W. Norton will handle sales and distribution of Yale University Press and Harvard University Press to wholesale, retail, library, and specialty accounts, as well as special sales venues, beginning in the fall of 2024 for titles to be released in January 2025. Among the largest and most prestigious university presses, both Yale and Harvard are currently distributed by TriLateral, Cumberland, R.I.
Yale University Press director John Donatich said, "There are so many exciting parallels to celebrate in our partnership with W.W. Norton. Yale is not for profit, Norton is employee-owned, and we share so many fundamental values; our books demonstrate scholarly rigor, intellectual probity, literary luster, and marketplace success. We look forward to working with one of the great enterprising independent publishers in the world."
Harvard University Press director George Andreou said, "I couldn't be more delighted to entrust HUP's books--both its storied backlist and the important new works yet to be published--to the care of W.W. Norton & Company, a house whose very name has long been synonymous with quality."
Jorie A. Krumpfer, CFO and COO at Norton, said, "It is a delight and a privilege to commence our publishing relationship with these two eminent presses. With lists that span general and scholarly audiences, and with award-winning books that deepen and broaden understanding of the arts, sciences, social sciences, literature, and culture, the publishing programs of these presses reflect the highest ideals of our own."
Norton director of trade sales Steven Pace added, "It is clear to us how deeply Norton's purposes and priorities resonate with both distinguished university presses' programs. Here is territory that we know well; in fact, we even share certain subject areas and authors. Our team at Norton is primed and ready to embrace the vaunted Harvard and Yale lists--and backlists--in the marketplace. We could not be more excited to represent their books."