American Book Company
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American Book Company (ABC) was an educational book publisher that published textbooks at the elementary school, secondary school and collegiate levels. It is most famous for publishing the McGuffey Readers, which sold 120 million copies between 1836 and 1960.[1]
[edit] Company History
American Book Company was formed in 1890 by consolidation of Van Antwerp, Bragg and Co., A.S. Barnes and Co., D. Appleton and Co., and Iveson, Blakeman and Co.[2] It was acquired by Litton Industries in 1967[3] and existed as a division of Litton Educational Publishing, Inc. until being sold to the International Thomson Organization in the late seventies. Thomson then sold its American Book Company K-12 assets to D. C. Heath and Company in 1981. ABC was absorbed into D. C. Heath and ceased to exist as an imprint. Any remaining K-12 assets of American Book Company are now owned by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, which acquired D. C. Heath and Company in 1995.
Many of the college level textbook rights of ABC/Litton were sold by Internation Thomson as well, to Van Nostrand Reinhold, though some[4][5] remained under the Wadsworth imprint at Thomson (now Cengage Learning).
[edit] External links
- American Book Company Records at Syracuse University
[edit] References
- ^ McGuffey Readers World. The Paradigm Company. Retrieved on 2008-04-17.
- ^ American Book Company Records. Syracuse University Library.
- ^ Betsky, Seymour (September 1983). "American Literature in the Marketplace. Literature and Cultural Inquiry.". Higher Education Quarterly 37 (4): 320-340. Blackwell Publishing.
- ^ Great Traditions in Ethics. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-18.
- ^ Great Traditions in Ethics. Cengage Learning.
