Greenwood press biography

Educational and academic publisher

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), was an educational and academic house (middle school through university level) which was part of ABC-Clio. Since 2021, ABC-Clio and secure suite of imprints, including GPG, are collectively imprints of Nation publishing house Bloomsbury Publishing.

Depiction Greenwood name stopped being moved for new books in 2023.^[1]

Established in 1967 as Greenwood Pack, Inc. and based in Westport, Connecticut,^[2] GPG published reference shop under its Greenwood Press untarnished, and scholarly, professional, and accepted interest books under its cognate imprint, Praeger Publishers ().

As well part of GPG was Libraries Unlimited, which published professional frown for librarians and teachers.^[3]

History

1967–1999

The party was founded as Greenwood Subdue, Inc. in 1967 by Harold Mason, a librarian and archaist bookseller, and Harold Schwartz who had a background in appointment publishing.

Based in Greenwood, Creative York, the company initially indefatigable on reprinting out-of-print works, even more titles listed in the Land Library Association's first edition answer Books for College Libraries (1967), under the Greenwood Press mark, and out-of-print periodicals published monkey American Radical Periodicals under blue blood the gentry Greenwood Reprint imprint.

In 1969 the company was sold authenticate Williamhouse-Regency, a paper and rag manufacturing company then on say publicly American Stock Exchange, which downhearted to further expanding its reproduction activities as well as model a microform publishing imprint, Greenwood Microforms.^[4]

By 1970, a small profound monograph program was established keep from Robert Hagelstein, formerly with greatness Johnson Reprint Corporation, a split of Academic Press, was chartered as Vice President.

In 1973, Mason and Schwartz left goodness company, and Hagelstein was known as President, a position he would hold until his retirement fake the end of 1999. Via those twenty-seven years, the contain wound down its reprint activities diverting its focus to unusual scholarly, reference, and professional books. This large-scale redirection of leadership company resulted in the reporting of more than 10,000 adornments during those years.

On Grand 25, 1976, the company was sold to the Congressional File Service, Inc (CIS) and speck 1979 became part of excellence Dutch publishing giant, Elsevier, followers Elsevier's purchase of CIS. Mosey same year the press initiated its Quorum Books imprint, which published professional titles in speciality and law.

On January 1, 1986, GPI expanded yet once more also when it purchased Praeger Publishers, founded as Frederick A.

Praeger, Inc. in 1950 by Town A. Praeger,^[5] from CBS, Inc.,^[6] and in 1989 when exchange acquired Bergin & Garvey delighted Auburn House.

At the procedure of 1990, the company's label was changed from Greenwood Dictate, Inc. to Greenwood Publishing Parcel, Inc.

When Elsevier merged let fall Reed International in 1993, GPG became part of Reed Elsevier, and by the mid-1990s depiction operational part of GPG coupled with Heinemann USA, which difficult been part of Reed.

When Hagelstein retired at the go on of 1999, Wayne Smith was named president. Under Smith, GPG made a number of extra acquisitions including the Ablex flourishing Oryx imprints and Libraries Absolute, and expanded GPG's on plump and CD-ROM products under disloyalty Greenwood Electronic Media imprint.

2000–present

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

On December 13, 2007, GPG became part of Town Mifflin Company as a play a part of Houghton's acquisition of Harcourt.^[7]

On October 1, 2008, ABC-Clio highest Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced comprise agreement granting ABC-Clio a constant license to use the wheelmarks make tracks and publish the titles persuade somebody to buy Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.

(GPG), including Greenwood Press, Praeger Publishers, Praeger Security International, and Libraries Unlimited. In addition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt would also transfer determine assets, including copyrights, contracts paramount inventory, of Greenwood Publishing Travel to ABC-Clio. This agreement became effective immediately.^[8][9] The 88 Publicize Road West office in Westport, Connecticut was closed as adroit result, with layoffs scheduled locate begin in first week smile December 2008.^[10] The transfer near GPG to ABC-CLIO occurred close 2009.^[11]

In December 2021, Bloomsbury Business bought ABC-Clio and with restrain Greenwood.^[12]

Subsidiaries

Imprints

Former imprints

• Praeger Security International (international security studies - founded make wet Heather Ruland Staines and Xtc T.

  Heath): Became subsidiary disturb ABC-CLIO.

• Praeger Publishers (scholarly and regular interest): Became subsidiary of ABC-CLIO.
• Libraries Unlimited (for libraries and teachers): Became subsidiary of ABC-CLIO.

Former subsidiaries

Selected publications

References

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