Psichogios Publications
Greek publishing company
Psichogios Publications is a Greek publishing company known for publishing fiction books for children and adults, mainly in Greece and Cyprus. Distribution is mostly via bookstores, by mail order, and through book fairs. The company also publishes most of its titles in electronic format; it has the largest catalog of ebooks in the Greek language and distribution takes place through iTunes, Kobo and nook. The company has the exclusive rights in the Greek language of the Harry Potter book series.
History
Psichogios Publications was founded in 1979 (1979) by Mr. Thanos Psichogios who published four children's fiction titles.
In the 1980s the company was mostly known in the Greek readership for their children fiction with popular authors such as Roald Dahl, Michael Ende, Graham Greene, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and others. Towards the end of the decade the company had a huge success with fiction for adults as well, after publishing the Perfume by Patrick Süskind.
In the 1990s the company expanded its catalog into more fiction titles for adults, while it enhanced its efforts in children's fiction. Some of the biggest hits for the company were Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody regarding fiction for adults.
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