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Originally Posted by snipenekkid
Is there a master list of alllllll the publishers and their associated imprints?
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Probably the closest thing is Wikipedia. They're pretty good at listing all the major and mid-level publishers and include the imprints either in the article or in one of those info-boxes at the bottom.
As for paying attention to publishers, I do somewhat because I read a lot of sf/fantasy and each imprint tends to have a distinctive flavour for the sort of books they publish.
So I know that if I find one of those old Ace paperbacks in the used bookstore and it's a fantasy, it's likely to be a light comedic fantasy. Whereas a Del Rey of either genre will probably be some sort of epic, and Tor SF tends to be some sort of high-concept idea that's a bit on the "hard science fiction" side, while Warner's Questar and Aspect lines tended towards space opera-type adventure and magic-in-the-real-world urban fantasy (not the paranormal former-horror-beasties stuff that many people think of as UF these days).
Makes it easier to filter unfamiliar titles and help zoom in on stuff that's most likely to fit whatever reading mood I'm in.
Mind you, I still almost always go by authors first once I've gotten to know their work, and I've followed my favourites from publisher to publisher as their old contracts expire and they get new ones, or they just expand their imprint base.