Publishing Company Name Generator

Publishing company and publishing house mean the same thing: the legal business that contracts authors and issues books. An imprint is a brand name used by a publisher for a particular list, such as a children's or crime line, and one company can run many imprints. Most names in this generator work for either; choose House or Publishing for the company and Press, Books or Editions for an imprint.

Yes. Many self-published authors register an imprint name so the copyright page and retailer listings show a publisher rather than their own name. Choose a name, register it as a business name or DBA where you live, and buy your ISBNs under that imprint so it appears in the Books in Print record.

Not to start, but you should at least confirm nobody else is using it. Search your national trademark database, the ISBN publisher registry (Bowker in the US, Nielsen in the UK), Companies House or your state registrar, and the domain and social handles. Register a trademark once the brand is earning money.

They make a strong colophon, the small logo printed on spines and title pages, and they are easy to remember and spell. Birds in particular (penguin, puffin, heron, wren) carry a bookish, slightly old-fashioned feel, which is why the generator leans on them while avoiding the animals that established publishers already own.