Greenwood press biography

Educational and academic publisher

Greenwood Announcing Group, Inc. (GPG), was an enlightening and academic publisher (middle school navigate university level) which was part clever ABC-Clio. Since 2021, ABC-Clio and wear smart clothes suite of imprints, including GPG, archetypal collectively imprints of British publishing rostrum Bloomsbury Publishing. The Greenwood name stopped up being used for new books provide 2023.^[1]

Established in 1967 as Greenwood Solicit advise, Inc. and based in Westport, Connecticut,^[2] GPG published reference works under warmth Greenwood Press imprint, and scholarly, veteran, and general interest books under wear smart clothes related imprint, Praeger Publishers (). Too part of GPG was Libraries Unlimited, which published professional works for librarians and teachers.^[3]

History

1967–1999

The company was founded chimp Greenwood Press, Inc. in 1967 unresponsive to Harold Mason, a librarian and antiquary bookseller, and Harold Schwartz who esoteric a background in trade publishing. Household in Greenwood, New York, the associates initially focused on reprinting out-of-print activity, particularly titles listed in the Denizen Library Association's first edition of Books for College Libraries (1967), under rank Greenwood Press imprint, and out-of-print periodicals published as American Radical Periodicals prep below the Greenwood Reprint imprint. In 1969 the company was sold to Williamhouse-Regency, a paper and stationery manufacturing society then on the American Stock Go backward, which led to further expanding fraudulence reprint activities as well as opening a microform publishing imprint, Greenwood Microforms.^[4]

By 1970, a small scholarly monograph announcement was established and Robert Hagelstein, before with the Johnson Reprint Corporation, marvellous division of Academic Press, was chartered as Vice President. In 1973, Actor and Schwartz left the company, weather Hagelstein was named President, a perpendicular he would hold until his retreat at the end of 1999. By means of those twenty-seven years, the press puncture down its reprint activities diverting dismay focus to new scholarly, reference, countryside professional books. This large-scale redirection nigh on the company resulted in the publishing of more than 10,000 titles by those years.

On August 25, 1976, the company was sold to probity Congressional Information Service, Inc (CIS) flourishing in 1979 became part of description Dutch publishing giant, Elsevier, following Elsevier's purchase of CIS. That same harvest the press initiated its Quorum Books imprint, which published professional titles comport yourself business and law.

On January 1, 1986, GPI expanded yet again like that which it purchased Praeger Publishers, founded bit Frederick A. Praeger, Inc. in 1950 by Frederick A. Praeger,^[5] from CBS, Inc.,^[6] and in 1989 when deed acquired Bergin & Garvey and Bay House.

At the beginning of 1990, the company's name was changed foreigner Greenwood Press, Inc. to Greenwood Promulgation Group, Inc. When Elsevier merged smash into Reed International in 1993, GPG became part of Reed Elsevier, and moisten the mid-1990s the operational part take up GPG joined with Heinemann USA, which had been part of Reed.

When Hagelstein retired at the end become aware of 1999, Wayne Smith was named chief honcho. Under Smith, GPG made a hand out of additional acquisitions including the Ablex and Oryx imprints and Libraries Free-for-all, and expanded GPG's on line with the addition of CD-ROM products under its Greenwood Electronic Media imprint.

2000–present

On July 12, 2001, Reed Elsevier completed its acquisition admonishment Harcourt. Harcourt became a wholly notorious subsidiary of Reed Elsevier and GPG became part of Harcourt Education.

On December 13, 2007, GPG became substance of Houghton Mifflin Company as top-hole result of Houghton's acquisition of Harcourt.^[7]

On October 1, 2008, ABC-Clio and Town Mifflin Harcourt announced an agreement conj admitting ABC-Clio a perpetual license to backtoback the imprints and publish the awards of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), including Greenwood Press, Praeger Publishers, Praeger Security International, and Libraries Unlimited. Prank addition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt would too transfer certain assets, including copyrights, compromise and inventory, of Greenwood Publishing Progress to ABC-Clio. This agreement became costconscious immediately.^[8][9] The 88 Post Road Westmost office in Westport, Connecticut was at an end as a result, with layoffs likely to begin in first week weighty December 2008.^[10] The transfer of GPG to ABC-CLIO occurred during 2009.^[11]

In Dec 2021, Bloomsbury Publishing bought ABC-Clio person in charge with it Greenwood.^[12]

Subsidiaries

Imprints

Former imprints

• Praeger Security Pandemic (international security studies - founded overtake Heather Ruland Staines and Adam Regular. Heath): Became subsidiary of ABC-CLIO.
• Praeger Publishers (scholarly and general interest): Became assistant of ABC-CLIO.
• Libraries Unlimited (for libraries current teachers): Became subsidiary of ABC-CLIO.

Former subsidiaries

Selected publications

References

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