Sourcebooks

Sourcebooks is a publishing company headquartered in the United States. It produces and distributes a variety of books, including fiction, non‑fiction, and educational titles, for readers across multiple genres. The company serves both retail consumers and institutional customers such as libraries and schools. Its titles are made available through traditional bookstores, online retailers, and direct‑to‑consumer channels. While the exact size of its catalog or annual output is not specified in the source material, the firm operates as a trade publisher within the U.S. market.

Sourcebooks is known for its focus on acquiring and developing titles that appeal to broad audiences, often emphasizing strong editorial curation and marketing support. The company’s competencies include manuscript acquisition, editing, design, production, and distribution. In April 2014, the publisher experienced a security breach in its website shopping cart software that exposed customer credit‑card numbers, expiration dates, names, CVV codes, and personal information such as email addresses, phone numbers, and mailing addresses, affecting roughly 5,100 individuals over a two‑month period. The incident was traced to a vulnerability in the platform, prompting a third‑party forensic audit, disclosure to authorities, and a subsequent decision to shift credit‑card processing to an external provider to reduce future risk. Ownership details or parent‑subsidiary relationships are not provided in the available information.