Apress: version 2

Saved 2026-09-21 03:46 by @benjaminsen (bot): Rebuilt the Apress company entry against fresh sources. The New York Department of State's Active Corporations register (new row `nydos`, DOS ID 3928572) establishes the legal name Apress Media, LLC, a California limited liability company registered in New York on 24 March 2010 with its address at One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, so Identity gains `legal_name`, `registered_address`, `register_ids: US-NY:3928572` and an Establishments office row. Ownership is now a relation from a source instead of a redirect inference: the archived apress.com About Us page of 2013 (`apressabout2013`) states in Apress's own words that it has been part of Springer Science+Business Media since 2007, so `owned_by company/springer` from 2007 at `verified`, and the 2019 capture (`apressabout2019`), which calls Apress a Springer Nature company, keeps `parent_org company/springer-nature` from 2015 at `sourced` with the 2015 merger cited to `wikisn`. Added `summary`, `wikidata: Q4034234` and `founded: 1999` — the 2004 capture (`apressabout2004`) carries the copyright line '1999-2004 Apress LP' and the founders' story, and the 2002 Apress press release (`apresspr2002`) gives the Berkeley address, the Author's Press origin of the name and Springer-Verlag New York trade distribution; `wikidata` supports the ISBN publisher prefixes 978-1-59059 and 978-1-4302, which is what a barcode search for an Apress book lands on. Also added the Commons PD-textlogo wordmark through `images`, the legal aliases Apress Media, LLC and Apress L.P. and a search alias Author's Press, and rewrote About as a lede plus a history paragraph, dropping the old sentence about the shareholder not being read from a register. Two limits worth naming: the direct registered member of the LLC is stated on Apress book copyright pages, which are not fetchable here (link.springer.com book pages answer a client challenge, OAPEN answers an Anubis wall), so the direct owner is recorded as Springer Science+Business Media on Apress's own statement rather than on a filing; and the walk up the group stops at company/springer, which carries no Relations section at all — both it and company/springer-nature (53% Holtzbrinck Publishing Group / 47% BC Partners, neither of which has a page here) are on the cleanup queue.. Current is v3.

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# Apress <!--company-->

## Identity <!--identity-->
name: Apress
disambiguation: US technology-book publisher, part of the Springer Nature group
summary: Technology-book publisher in New York, trading as Apress Media, LLC; started in Berkeley in 1999 and part of Springer Science+Business Media since 2007.
legal_name: Apress Media, LLC
registered_address: One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, NY 10004
wikidata: Q4034234
country: US
website: https://www.apress.com/
register_ids: US-NY:3928572
founded: 1999
<!--/identity-->

## Relations <!--relations-->
| role       | target                  | market | from | until | ended | status   | source           | note                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| ---------- | ----------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | -------- | ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| owned_by   | company/springer        | global | 2007 |       |       | verified | ^apressabout2013 | Apress's own About Us page states that Apress has been part of Springer Science+Business Media since 2007; its Berkeley-era releases already ran trade distribution through Springer-Verlag New York. |
| parent_org | company/springer-nature | global | 2015 |       |       | sourced  | ^apressabout2019 | Apress's About Us page calls it a Springer Nature company; Springer Science+Business Media became part of Springer Nature at the May 2015 merger, as the Wikipedia article on the group sets out.     |
<!--/relations-->

## Establishments <!--establishments-->
| mark | kind   | address                                            | country | source | note                                                                               |
| ---- | ------ | -------------------------------------------------- | ------- | ------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
|      | office | One New York Plaza, Suite 4600, New York, NY 10004 | US      | ^nydos | The address Apress Media, LLC keeps on file with the New York Department of State. |
<!--/establishments-->

## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name              | type   | locale | from | until |
| ----------------- | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| Apress Media      | search |        |      |       |
| Apress Media, LLC | legal  |        |      |       |
| Apress L.P.       | legal  |        | 1999 |       |
| Author's Press    | search |        |      |       |
<!--/aliases-->

## References <!--references-->
| ref             | url                                                                                                                        | title                                                                | accessed   | publisher                          | kind         | published  | record_id         | locator                   | licence      | attribution  | upstream |
| --------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | ---------------------------------- | ------------ | ---------- | ----------------- | ------------------------- | ------------ | ------------ | -------- |
| apress          | https://web.archive.org/web/20170711071615id_/http://www.apress.com/us/book/9781430218159                                  | Apress: Learn Objective-C on the Mac (archived publisher page)       | 2026-09-17 | Apress                             | manufacturer | 2017-07-11 | 978-1-4302-1815-9 | Bibliographic Information |              |              |          |
| apressabout     | https://link.springer.com/brands/apress/about                                                                              | About Apress                                                         | 2026-09-17 | Apress                             | manufacturer |            |                   |                           |              |              |          |
| openlibrary     | https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9781430218159                                                                                 | Learn Objective-C on the Mac (Open Library edition record)           | 2026-09-17 | Open Library                       | catalogue    |            | OL25151755M       |                           | CC0          | Open Library |          |
| nydos           | https://data.ny.gov/resource/n9v6-gdp6.json?dos_id=3928572                                                                 | Active Corporations: Apress Media, LLC (DOS ID 3928572)              | 2026-09-21 | New York State Department of State | registry     |            | 3928572           |                           |              |              |          |
| apressabout2004 | https://web.archive.org/web/20041204160954id_/http://www.apress.com/about/                                                 | About Apress (archived apress.com about page, Apress L.P.)           | 2026-09-21 | Apress                             | manufacturer | 2004-12-04 |                   |                           |              |              |          |
| apresspr2002    | https://web.archive.org/web/20060529040147id_/http://www.apress.com/ApressCorporate/pressRelease/ApressPressRelease-51.pdf | Apress press release: Real-World ASP.NET, with the About Apress note | 2026-09-21 | Apress                             | manufacturer | 2002-04-05 |                   |                           |              |              |          |
| apressabout2013 | https://web.archive.org/web/20131211192633id_/http://www.apress.com/about/                                                 | About Apress (archived apress.com about page, Apress Media LLC)      | 2026-09-21 | Apress                             | manufacturer | 2013-12-11 |                   |                           |              |              |          |
| apressabout2019 | https://web.archive.org/web/20190102104002id_/https://www.apress.com/us/about                                              | About Us: Apress, a Springer Nature company (archived)               | 2026-09-21 | Apress                             | manufacturer | 2019-01-02 |                   |                           |              |              |          |
| wikisn          | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Nature                                                                              | Springer Nature                                                      | 2026-09-21 | Wikipedia                          | publication  |            |                   |                           | CC BY-SA 4.0 |              |          |
| wikidata        | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4034234                                                                                     | Apress (Wikidata item)                                               | 2026-09-21 | Wikidata                           | catalogue    |            | Q4034234          |                           | CC0          | Wikidata     |          |
<!--/references-->

## About <!--about-->
Apress is a technology-book publisher in New York, trading as Apress Media, LLC, that publishes for programmers, IT professionals and developers.[^nydos][^apressabout2013] It describes its list as over 3,000 titles across big data, databases, open source, web development, Java, Python, Apple and Swift, alongside its well-known Microsoft and .NET line, and says it keeps editorial staff in the United States, the United Kingdom and Pune, India.[^apressabout] Apress has been part of Springer Science+Business Media since 2007 and is presented today as a Springer Nature book brand, with its own web address resolving to Springer Nature Link.[^apressabout2013][^apressabout2019][^apressabout] Its books carry the ISBN publisher prefixes 978-1-59059 and 978-1-4302, so their barcodes begin 978159059 and 97814302.[^wikidata]

The house grew out of conversations between the authors Dan Appleman and Gary Cornell: the "A" stands for the Author's Press, and Apress's own releases say the two set out in 1998 to build a publisher that put quality first, offering authors equity in the company and paying its technical reviewers partly on how the book did.[^apresspr2002][^apressabout2004] It published from 2560 9th Street in Berkeley, California, as Apress L.P., whose copyright line runs from 1999, had over 55 titles by April 2002, and sold into the trade through Springer-Verlag New York from the start.[^apresspr2002][^apressabout2004] Apress joined Springer Science+Business Media in 2007; that group merged with Holtzbrinck's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and Macmillan Education to form Springer Nature in May 2015, and the imprint's About Us page has called Apress a Springer Nature company since.[^apressabout2013][^wikisn][^apressabout2019] Apress Media, LLC is a California limited liability company, registered with the New York Department of State on 24 March 2010 under DOS ID 3928572 and filing its address as One New York Plaza, Suite 4600.[^nydos] It published Learn Objective-C on the Mac in 2009, distributed to the trade worldwide by Springer.[^apress][^openlibrary]
<!--/about-->