Initially an imprint of Douglas & McIntyre, the Vancouver-based company became its own entity in 2013.

Greystone Books was an imprint of Douglas & McIntyre, and won the CBA Libris Award for Marketing Achievement of the Year in 2007.

[1] After Douglas & McIntyre went bankrupt in 2013,[2] publisher[3] Rob Sanders[4] bought Greystone Books and launched it as an in independent company.

[4] In 2019, the company launched the Greystone Kids[7] and its Aldana Libros imprint[5] to focus on English translations of global children's book titles.

[9] The company is based in Vancouver,[5] and is known for its publication of English language books about people, the planet, and nature.