Disney Publishing Worldwide
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| Subsidiary of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media | |
| Industry | Publishing |
| Founder | Michael Lynton |
| Headquarters | Glendale, Califorina |
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Number of locations
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2 creative centers (2009) |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media (The Walt Disney Company) |
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| Subsidiaries |
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| Website |
books Official website |
| Waterfire Saga | |
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| Created by | Disney Publishing staff Jennifer Donnelly |
| Original work | novel |
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| Novel(s) |
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| Original music | “Open Your Eyes” Hollywood Records |
| Zodiac Legacy | |
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| Created by | Stan Lee |
| Original work | novel |
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| Novel(s) |
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| Comics |
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| Miscellaneous | |
| Website | disneyzodiac |
| Star Darlings | |
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| Created by | Shana Muldoon Zappa Ahmet Zappa |
| Original work | books |
| Print publications | |
| Book(s) |
Sage and the Journey to Wishworld Libby and the Class Election |
| Films and television | |
| Short film(s) | Youtube Animated Series (12 Episodes and 12 Clips) |
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| Toys |
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| music video | "Wish Now" remix |
| website | characters |
Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW), formerly The Disney Publishing Group and Buena Vista Publishing Group, is the publishing subsidiary of Disney Consumer Products and Interactive Media, a division of The Walt Disney Company. Its imprints include Disney Editions, Hyperion Books for Children, Disney Press, Kingswell and Freeform. It has creative centers in Glendale, California, and in Milan, Italy.
In 1990, Disney Consumer Products discontinued its license for Topolino, an Italian Mickey Mouse magazine. This led Michael Lynton, the Disney Consumer Products business development director, to start up its own Magazine Group with the similarly outlaid Disney Adventures. Through Walt Disney Publications, Inc., Disney Publishing launched Disney Comics in the United States. That same year, Disney began publishing Disney Adventures. In 1991, Disney Publishing purchased Discover magazine from Family Media, placing it within its Magazine Group and purchased the Family Fun Magazine after its second issue from Jake Winebaum.
The Disney Publishing Group (DPG) was incorporated in January 1992, and included the already formed Hyperion Books, Hyperion Books for Children, Disney Press and its units.
In 1994, DPG launched the Mouse Works and Fun Works divisions in February and November, respectively, in order to publish interactive children books. By April, the Magazine Group agreed with Ziff-Davis Publishing Company to a joint venture publication, Family PC, to be launched in September. In June, Lynton left his position as senior vice president of DPG to become president of Disney's Hollywood Pictures.
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