American Book Company

American Book Company

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. [cite web
title = McGuffey Readers World
publisher = The Paradigm Company
url = http://www.mcguffeyreaders.com/history.htm
accessdate = 2008-04-17]

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. [cite web
title = American Book Company Records
publisher = Syracuse University Library
url = http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/amer_book_co.htm] It was acquired by Litton Industries in 1967 [cite journal
title = American Literature in the Marketplace. Literature and Cultural Inquiry.
last = Betsky
first = Seymour
journal = Higher Education Quarterly
volume = 37
issue = 4
pages = 320-340
publisher = Blackwell Publishing
date = September 1983
url = http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-2273.1983.tb02009.x] 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 [cite web
title = Great Traditions in Ethics
work = Amazon.com
url = http://www.amazon.com/Traditions-Introduction-Theodore-Sheldon-Peterfreund/dp/B000OS76SC
accessdate = 2008-04-18] [cite web
title = Great Traditions in Ethics
publisher = Cengage Learning
url = http://academic.cengage.com/cengage/instructor.do?&disciplinenumber=5&product_isbn=9780495094982&contextelement=http://academic.cengage.com/cengage] remained under the Wadsworth imprint at Thomson (now Cengage Learning).

External links

* [http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/amer_book_co.htm American Book Company Records] at Syracuse University

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