In 1990, Disney Consumer Products discontinued its license for Topolino, an Italian Mickey Mouse magazine.

[9] By April, the Magazine Group agreed with Ziff-Davis Publishing Company to a joint venture publication, Family PC, to be launched in September.

Kids Magazines included the newly developed Big Time weekly newspaper supplement to have a Fall 1996 launch.

[19] DPW licensed CrossGen to Checker Publishing Group to reprint the comic book series as trade paperback editions starting in February 2007.

[23] In 2009, Disney Press released Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen, the first of the Villains book series written by Serena Valentino.

In January 2013, DPW launched the Never Girls book series, an extension of the Disney Fairies franchise, with publishing partner Random House.

[17] DPW announced in April 2014 that Del Rey Books would publish a new line of canon Star Wars books under the Lucasfilm Story Group from September onward on a bi-monthly schedule[34] while previous, non-canon, Expanded Universe material would be reprinted under the Star Wars Legends banner.

The first book from Freeform was Two Truths and a Lie, written by Melissa de la Cruz and Margaret Stohl, and was the first in a trilogy.

[3] Disney-Hyperion started a new imprint, Rick Riordan Presents, for middle-grade readers featuring mythology-based books by September 2016.

Riordan would act in a curator-type role and his editor, Stephanie Owens Lurie, would be editorial director of the imprint.

Riordan Presents first book, Aru Shah and the End of Time, will be written by Roshani Chokshi to be published in April 2018 and will be the first in a quartet of novels.

[47] In 2022, it was announced that Penguin Random House will take over the distribution of Disney Publishing Worldwide titles from 2023 onwards.

[52] DPW started to originate planned franchises with the Waterfire Saga in 2014 and The Zodiac Legacy and Star Darlings in 2015.

[37][42] Waterfire Saga is a Disney Publishing franchise based on mermaids launched in May 2014 as a multimedia release around a core book series.

[37][58] The Waterfire Saga was developed by Disney Publishing's various departments after some years of considering doing a mermaid mythology project.

A 200-page franchise bible was compiled that included cultures, story arcs, images of the undersea world and its inhabitants, and main character profiles.

[60] The first novel, Deep Blue, was released under the Disney-Hyperion imprint on May 6, 2014, with a print run of 250,000 copies and a national book tour.

The novel's marketing plan included advertising in print, TV, and in-theater; ABC Family and Hollywood Records would run additional promotions as well as a retail floor display with a riser.

Deep Blue initially focuses on Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, who has a premonitory dream about an ancient evil returning on the eve of her betrothal.

[65] With Papercutz, the first Zodiac Legacy graphic novel, Tiger Island, hit the stands on March 30, 2016, with the writing team joined by artist Paris Cullins.

[63][64] The eighth grader, Steven, has to deal with being a superhero and how that affects him, his family, and his friends[63] as he ends up in the middle of a worldwide adventure.

[64] Star Darlings is a Disney Publishing multimedia franchise based on an original wish-granting fey people called the Starlings.

Barry Waldo was selected to manage the franchise, which is an inspirational brand targeted at tweens designed to: "celebrate their individuality, make positive choices, and turn their wishes into reality".

[73] Justice is the franchise's primary retail partner carrying Jakks Pacific doll line, clothing, and books.

Sage, Libby, and Leona are the Star Darlings up first for books with the other nine being Adora, Astra, Cassie, Clover, Gemma, Piper, Scarlet, Tessa, and Vega.

[77] The franchise was announced at the D23 convention in August 2015[76] and launched on September 15, 2015, with two chapter books Sage and the Journey to Wishworld and Libby and the Class Election.

[68] Kirkus Reviews found the first volume, Sage and the Journey to Wishworld, to be "complicated, retrograde, and very sparkly" and for ages seven to eleven.

[78] On September 24, 2015, a social media event and a press day would be held for the franchise as part of its launch phase of the marketing campaign.

[76] Expected releases through November are the Jakks dolls at Justice, a storytelling and lifestyle app, music through Walt Disney Records, and the first episode of a YouTube animated series.

The TV specials featured a remixed version of the Star Darlings theme song by teen singer-songwriter Skylar Stecker.