Macmillan Inc. was an American book publishing company originally established as the American division of the British Macmillan Publishers . The two were later separated and acquired by other companies, with the remnants of the original American division of Macmillan present in McGraw-Hill Education 's Macmillan/McGraw-Hill textbooks, Gale 's Macmillan Reference USA division, and some trade imprints of Simon & Schuster ( Scribner , Free Press , and Atheneum Books ) that were transferred when both companies were owned by Paramount Communications .
23-644: The German publisher Holtzbrinck , which bought the British Macmillan in 1999, purchased U.S. rights to the Macmillan name in 2001 and rebranded its American division with it in 2007. George Edward Brett opened the first Macmillan office in the United States in 1869. Macmillan sold its U.S. operations to the Brett family, George Platt Brett Sr. and George Platt Brett Jr. in 1896, resulting in
46-635: A boycott threatened Macmillan US, it transferred the book to Doubleday Macmillan US merged with Crowell Collier Publishing Company in 1961. The U.S. publisher became a media giant and renamed itself Macmillan Inc. in 1973. In 1979, Thomas Mellon Evans bought a large stake in Macmillan Inc. Macmillan Inc. then was bid on by Mattel and ABC , only for an acquisition by ABC to break down. Macmillan Inc. then sold several non-publishing divisions. In 1980, Macmillan Inc. sold musical instrument maker C.G. Conn . In 1981, Macmillan Inc. sold Hagstrom Map ,
69-523: A business of approximately $ 12,000,000. So then, the name of Brett and the name of Macmillan have been and are synonymous in the United States. Under the leadership of the Brett family, Macmillan served as the publisher of American authors Winston Churchill, Margaret Mitchell , author of Gone with the Wind , and Jack London , author of White Fang and Call of the Wild . The Bretts remained in control of
92-625: A joint operation with McGraw-Hill in 1989. McGraw-Hill acquired full ownership of Macmillan/McGraw-Hill in 1993 after Maxwell's death. Holtzbrinck purchased most of the rights to the Macmillan name from Pearson in 2001, but not any of the businesses then associated with it. Holtzbrinck rebranded its U.S. division with the name in 2007. The online user-maintained database Jacketflap reports these constituent American publishers of Holtzbrinck's Macmillan division (August 2010): Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group Holtzbrinck Publishing Group ( German : Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck )
115-612: A large US publisher, in 1988. It went on to buy Science Research Associates and the Official Airline Guide later that year. SRA was sold to a joint venture of Maxwell's Macmillan and McGraw Hill the next year. The company went into administration in 1991 following the death of Robert Maxwell. Its properties were sold to various media companies. Time Warner (then parent of Little, Brown and Company ) acquired Macdonald. McGraw Hill acquired that part of Macmillan/McGraw Hill it did not already own outright. OAG
138-953: A total of 14,000 employees. The current chairman of the group is Stefan von Holtzbrinck. Don Weisberg is CEO of Macmillan, the company that unites the US-based businesses of the group. Previous CEOs of Macmillan include John Sargent . In Germany: In the United States: Using the Macmillan name: Using the Audio Renaissance name in Southfield, Michigan : In the United Kingdom: Maxwell Communication Corporation Maxwell Communication Corporation plc
161-560: Is a privately held German company headquartered in Stuttgart , that owns publishing companies worldwide. Through Macmillan Publishers , it is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies. In 2015, it merged most of its Macmillan Science and Education unit (including Nature Publishing Group ) with Springer Science+Business Media , creating the company Springer Nature . Holtzbrinck owns 53% of
184-739: The 1970s the British Printing Corporation was involved in many disputes with trade unions . In 1978 such a dispute led to The Times and Sunday Times not being published for ten months. In July 1981, Robert Maxwell launched a dawn raid on the company, acquiring a stake of 29%; the following year he secured full control of it. He changed the name of the company to British Printing & Communications Corporation in March 1982 and to Maxwell Communication Corporation in October 1987. The company acquired Macmillan Inc. ,
207-650: The American offices of Macmillan from its creation in 1869 to the early 1960s, "a span matched by few other families in the history of United States business." Macmillan Publishers sold its stake in Macmillan US in 1951 and later re-entered the American publishing industry with the founding of St. Martin's Press in 1952. Despite the strong protest of leading astronomers of the time, Macmillan US published in 1950 Imanuel Velikovsky 's Worlds in Collision . When
230-443: The Macmillan trademark in the United States (gained with the acquisition of Simon & Schuster educational and professional division, which included the assets of former Macmillan Inc. ) to Holtzbrinck. In March 2006, Holtzbrinck forced Tor Books , which is owned by Holtzbrinck, to stop making its books available as e-books via Baen Ebooks because of concerns regarding the lack of digital rights management (DRM) . The policy
253-476: The bookstore Brentano's and the printer Alco‐Gravure. In 1981, Macmillan Inc. acquired the children's publisher Bradbury Press. In 1982, Macmillan Inc. sold its British division, Cassell , to CBS . In 1984, Macmillan Inc. acquired the Scribner Book Companies and the textbook publishers Sieber & McIntyre, Dellen Publishing, and Pennwell Books. The following year, Macmillan Inc. acquired
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#1732772281154276-489: The children's reference imprints of Macmillan Library Reference in preparation for a sale. Pearson sold the Macmillan Reference USA division (which included Scribner Reference and G. K. Hall) to Thomson Gale and Macmillan General Reference (except Complete Idiot's Guides ) to IDG Books in 1999. Macmillan's school publishing operations (including Glencoe, Barnell Loft, and Benziger ) were merged into
299-529: The combined company. The history of Georg von Holtzbrink's publishing activities during the Nazi years 1933-1945 has been controversial. After World War II, Georg von Holtzbrinck , a former member of the Nazi party, reestablished a group in 1948, beginning as a German book club . In the 1960s, it purchased the German publishing companies Droemer , Kindler, Rowohlt and S. Fischer Verlag . In 1985, it acquired
322-485: The creation of an American company, Macmillan US (in which Macmillan Publishers held stake until 1951). Even with the split of the American company from its parent company in Britain, George Brett Jr. and Harold Macmillan remained close personal friends. George P. Brett Jr. made the following comments in a letter dated 23 January 1947 to Daniel Macmillan about his family's devotion to the American publishing industry: For
345-445: The educational publisher Jossey-Bass. The company was acquired by the controversial British tycoon Robert Maxwell 's Maxwell Communication Corporation in 1989. Later in 1989, Macmillan acquired Prentice Hall Information from Simon & Schuster and sold Intertec, Macmillan Book Clubs, and Gryphon Editions to K-III Communications . Maxwell Macmillan Professional and Business Reference Publishing (the former Prentice Hall division)
368-587: The name of Simon & Schuster's reference division (while Macmillan Inc. became simply a legal name for it). Pearson acquired the Macmillan name in America in 1998, following its purchase of the Simon & Schuster educational and professional group (which included Macmillan Inc. and its properties). Pearson merged the acquired Simon & Schuster divisions with Addison Wesley Longman to form Pearson Education (including Macmillan Computer Publishing). Pearson closed
391-466: The publishing operations of ITT ( Sams , Bobbs-Merrill , legal publisher Michie Co., trade magazine company Intertec, Marquis Who's Who , and G. K. Hall & Co. ). Bobbs-Merrill was subsequently closed, with its remaining books moved to Macmillan. In 1986, Macmillan Inc. sold the music publisher G. Schirmer, Inc. to Music Sales Group . In 1987, Macmillan Inc. acquired the educational publisher Laidlaw from Doubleday . In 1988, Macmillan Inc. acquired
414-418: The record my grandfather was employed by Macmillan's of England as a salesman. He came to the United States with his family in the service of Macmillan's of England and built up a business of approximately $ 50,000 before he died. He was succeeded . . . by my father, who eventually incorporated The Macmillan Company of New York and built up business of about $ 9,000,000. I succeeded my father, and we currently doing
437-642: The retail book division of Holt, Rinehart and Winston , naming it the Henry Holt Book Company . One year later, the company acquired Scientific American magazine for $ 52.6 million. In 1994, it purchased a majority interest in Farrar, Straus & Giroux from retiring Roger W. Straus, Jr. A year later, it purchased a 70% majority interest in Macmillan Publishers , and then the remaining shares in 1999. In 2001, Pearson sold
460-680: Was a leading British media business. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index . It collapsed in 1991 following the death of its titular owner . The company was established in 1964 when Hazell Sun merged with Purnell & Sons (which also owned book publisher Macdonald ) to form the British Printing Corporation . In 1967, the British Printing Corporation merged its magazines into Haymarket Group . During
483-691: Was later changed and Tor titles became available as DRM-free e-books in 2012. The Tor UK label in Britain (and hence the EU) does the same. The company also received a good deal of attention when it bought the then leading German social networking platform StudiVZ in January 2007. Holtzbrinck has total annual sales of 2.1 billion euros (as of 2005); 49% of sales are in Germany and 23% in North America. It had 2005 earnings before taxes of 142 million euros, and
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#1732772281154506-680: Was sold to OAG , a sister Maxwell company. Collier's Encyclopedia was sold to Planeta and DeAgostini . What remaining of Macmillan Inc. was eventually sold to Simon & Schuster / Paramount Communications for $ 552.8 million and finalized in February 1994. (At the time, Viacom had just purchased S&S via the acquisition of its former parent company Paramount Communications ; it was owned for several years by corporate successor Paramount Global and now owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts .) The Macmillan and Atheneum adult trade publications were merged into Scribner. Macmillan Publishing USA became
529-513: Was sold to Thomson Professional Publishing. Macmillan's directories (led by Marquis Who's Who and National Register Publishing) were sold to Reed Publishing . Michie was sold to Mead . Macmillan also sold the department store Gump's , the trade school Katharine Gibbs , and part of its stake in language school Berlitz . Maxwell died in 1991, and Macmillan began selling properties and eventually filed for bankruptcy. Paramount acquired Macmillan Computer Publishing. Standard Rate & Data Service
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