Melcher Media

Melcher Media
Founded1993
FounderCharles Melcher
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationNew York City
DistributionTwo Rivers Distribution
Publication typesBooks
Official websitemelcher.com

Melcher Media is a book packager and publisher in New York City, New York, founded in 1993 by Charles Melcher.[1] The company’s focuses include theater-, movie-, and TV-related books; environmental titles; pop-up books; and DuraBooks.

The company has produced more than 175 titles, including 30 New York Times best sellers, such as An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (Rodale), The Wisdom of Sundays by Oprah Winfrey (Flatiron), The Mamba Mentality by Kobe Bryant (MCD/FSG), and Martha Stewart's Organizing (Houghton Mifflin), as well as the official companions to Hamilton (Grand Central), Stranger Things (Del Rey), and Wicked (Hachette).

Melcher Media is known for highly visual, innovative, and physically distinctive books,[2] such as a pink faux-alligator binding of Sex and the City: Kiss and Tell, a gold-embossed double-gatefold cover for Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh, and J.J. Abrams's S., which contained more than 22 inserted artifacts.

  1. ^ Reid, Calvin, “Melcher Media Launches Its Own List,” Publishers Weekly, April 5, 2004.
  2. ^ Reid, Calvin, “Melcher Media Launches Its Own List,” Publishers Weekly, April 5, 2004.