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Scribe (publisher)

Independent Australian publishing house

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 28, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Scribe Publications is an independent publishing house founded by Henry Rosenbloom in Melbourne, Australia in 1976. It established a sister company, Scribe UK, in London in May 2013. Scribe publishes nonfiction and fiction by authors from around the world, including many titles in translation. It publishes over 60 books a year in Australia, over 50 in the United Kingdom, and over 30 in the United States. It has a scout in New York.

Editorial summary

“Scribe (publisher)” enters the record as independent Australian publishing house. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Scribe, publisher and Independent can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Scribe, publisher and Independent.
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Why this record matters

“Scribe (publisher)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Scribe, publisher and Independent provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 28, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1976 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Scribe (publisher)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.