Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft
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The Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG) is a German publishing house in Darmstadt. With about 140.000 subscribers (as of 1999) it is one of the largest book clubs in Germany.
German scientist founded the WBG in 1949 as voluntary association to help with the shortage of scientifical literature after WWII. Its aim was to publish new books and to reprint standard works, scarce in that era. On of its founding members was the philosopher Wilhelm Weischedel.
Nowadays the WBG publishes works from about 20 fields of study, send by mail order to its members. About a third of its programme comprises reprints of other publisher's scientifical works.
These publishers belong to the WBG:
- Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt (founded 1996)
- Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart (taken over 1997)
- Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz (taken over 2005)
[edit] References
- Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt: 1949 - 1974. Eine kurze Darstellung der 25 Jahre (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt: 1949 - 1974. A short account of the 25 years). Darmstadt 1974
