Pushkin Press pushes further into the US with two acquisitions

Pushkin Press is to push further into the US market with the acquisition of non-fiction publisher Steerforth Press and its sister company Hanover Publisher Services.

Publishers Weekly reports that the two companies will be merged into Steerforth Press and Services starting this July. Steerforth Press co-founder Chip Fleischer will remain at the publisher as a senior editor, acquiring six to eight new non-fiction titles per year. Before this, Hanover had distributed Pushkin in the US since 2014.

Adam Freudenheim, Pushkin publisher and m.d., said. "Pushkin’s publishing has gone from strength to strength in recent years, across all our imprints, making it the perfect moment to focus more effort and energy here in this market, particularly on marketing and publicity." He noted Pushkin’s sales had grown annually in the US since it was taken on by Hanover.

Announced as Independent Publisher of the Year at The British Book Awards in 2022, Pushkin has been quietly bulking up, having acquired Peter Owen Publishers and Angel Classics in the UK in 2023.

Founded in 1994, Steerforth Press focuses exclusively on works of narrative non-fiction, but has a backlist including fiction and poetry. Hanover, via Random House Publisher Services, distibutes small presses such as Brooklyn-based Archipelago Books and New Delhi, India–based Campfire Graphic Novels.