Motorbooks

Founded in 1965, Motorbooks was acquired by The Quarto Group in late 2007. Motorbooks is among the world’s leading transportation publishers, offering books created by motoring’s top photographers and writers, many created with major partners like Harley-Davidson, Chevrolet, Ford, and Chrysler, in addition to magazines like Hot Rod and Cycle World.

Contact Details

Motorbooks
100 Cummings Center
Suite 265-D
Mail/Deliveries/Packages to Suite 253C
Beverly, MA 01915
USA

Tel: +1 978 282 9590

Publishing:
Zack Miller, Group Publisher
     zack.miller@quarto.com
Dennis Pernu, Executive Editor
     dennis.pernu@quarto.com

Sales: 
Nichole Schiele, Manager Special Market Sales
     nichole.schiele@quarto.com 

Marketing: 
Marketing UK
   marketinguk@quarto.com

Marketing USA
Steve Roth, Senior Marketing Manager
     steve.roth@quarto.com

Foreign Rights:
If you are interested in publishing our titles in Europe, please contact:
    Karine Marko
    Group Rights Director
    karine.marko@quarto.com

If you are interested in publishing our titles anywhere else in the world, please contact:
     Kate Essam
     Director of Sales Operation, Quarto Foreign Rights Operations
     kate.essam@quarto.com

Become a Motorbooks Author

If you have a transportation-related book idea that you’d like to share with us, we’d love to hear it. Please follow the directions in the submission guidelines to submit your proposal.

Motorbooks Historymotorbooks

It’s only fitting that our story begins in a garage.

The year was 1965, and North America was in dire need of quality car, motorcycle, and racing books. Luckily for gearheads, a transplanted Englishman and lifelong car guy named Thomas Warth took it upon himself to feed the need. From the stalls of his humble Minneapolis, Minnesota, garage, Warth launched a modest automotive book mail-order business selling transportation tomes, many of them imported from England. Thus was born Classic Motorbooks.

In 1973, Classic Motorbooks began publishing its own books, which it made available alongside those from leading transportation publishers around the world. This move put Motorbooks in the driver’s seat, allowing it to define the best books for enthusiasts and then engage the motoring world’s best photographers and writers to create them—an approach that continues to this day.

Besides our award-winning writers and shooters, we also partner with some of the biggest names in the business, like Harley-Davidson, Chevrolet, Ford, Hot Rod and Cycle World magazines, Dodge, and SRT—all to give us access to the best stories and the coolest photography. Alongside its own titles, Motorbooks continues to offer the best books from the other premier transportation publishers, fine-tuned exclusively for the enthusiast by gearheads who are just as obsessed as you are.

Motorbooks has embraced the gearhead life. If it has wheels, we dig it. Wrench, Race, Ride, Roll, Read: that’s our mantra. Now go burn some rubber.


Sites We DigIt’s hard for a company to publish books for almost 50 years without making a few friends. Whether these links lead to people we’ve worked with, people we’d like to work with, or simply blogs our staff members love to read, we recommend you check out the list below for some of our favorite sites.

AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America)
American Iron Magazine
All About Vettes
Automobile Magazine
Auto Restorer Magazine
AutoTrader Classics®
Autoweek Magazine
BangShift
BarnFinds.com
Benchrace
Bikernet
Camaro Performers Magazine
Car & Driver Magazine
Car Craft Magazine
CarDomain
Car Guy Chronicles
Cars in Barns
Classic Motorsports Magazine
Cycle World Magazine
Cyril Huze Post
Dirt Rider Magazine
Drivers Talk Radio
Edmunds
Excellence Magazine
Forza Magazine
Grassroots Motorsports Magazine
Hemmings
Hot Bike Magazine
Hot Rod Magazine
HubGarage
Jalopnik
Jalopy Journal
Jay Leno's Garage
Just a Car Guy
Kelley Blue Book
          LA Car
Meguiar's Car Crazy Central
MotoHistory
Motorcycle Cruiser Magazine
Motorcyclist Magazine
Motor Trend Magazine
Muscle Car Review Magazine
Mustang Club of America
NCCC (National Council of Corvette Clubs, Inc.)
NCOA (National Corvette Owners Association)
NCRS (National Corvette Restorers Society)
NHRA (National Hot Rod Association)
NSRA (National Street Rod Association)
PCA (Porsche Club of America)
Petersen Automotive Museum
Popular Hot Rodding Magazine
Porsche 356 Registry
Powertrain Products
RideLust
Road & Track Magazine
Rod & Custom Magazine
The Rodder's Journal
SCCA (Sports Car Club of America)
SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association)
SpeedReaders
SPEED TV
Sport Rider Magazine
Street Rodder Magazine
Super Chevy Magazine
The Truth About Cars
Vette Vues Magazine
VETTE Magazine
VintageMotorsport Magazine
New York Times "Wheels" Blog
Other Quarto websites