Holt McDougal is an American
publishing company
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, a division of
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (; HMH) is an American publisher of textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers and adults. The company is based in the Financial Dist ...
, that specializes in
textbook
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s for use in
high schools
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.
The Holt name is derived from that of U.S. publisher
Henry Holt Henry Holt may refer to:
*Henry Holt (North Dakota politician) (1887–1944), lieutenant governor
*Henry Holt (publisher) (1840–1926), American publisher and author
**Henry Holt and Company, Holt's publishing company
*Henry E. Holt (born 1929), ...
(1840–1926), co-founder of the earliest ancestor business, but Holt McDougal is distinct from contemporary
Henry Holt and Company
Henry Holt and Company is an American book-publishing company based in New York City. One of the oldest publishers in the United States, it was founded in 1866 by Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt. Currently, the company publishes in the fields ...
, which claims the history from 1866. The companies publish different kinds of books.
History
Holt, Rinehart and Winston (HRW) was created in March 1960 by the merger of Henry Holt and Company of New York City (established 1866 as Leypoldt and Holt);
Rinehart & Company of New York, descendant of
Farrar & Rinehart (est. 1929); and the John C. Winston Company of Philadelphia (est. 1884). ''
The Wall Street Journal
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'' reported on March 1, 1960, that Holt stockholders had approved the merger, last of the three approvals. "Henry Holt is the surviving concern, but will be known as Holt, Rinehart, Winston, Inc."
["Henry Holt Merger". ''The Wall Street Journal''. March 1, 1960. Page 12.] In 1967, HRW was acquired by
CBS.
In 1985 the retail publishing arm of HRW along with the Henry Holt name was acquired by the
Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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based in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck acquired the Macmillan name in 2001 and Henry Holt is now an imprint or division of the global
Macmillan Group
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(under Holtzbrinck; not to be confused with Macmillan US).
Also in 1985, the educational publishing arm along with the Holt, Rinehart and Winston name and logo (see image) was acquired by
Harcourt. As Harcourt divested further, from 2001 HRW was a division of
Harcourt Education
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owned by
Reed Elsevier. Reed sold off parts of Harcourt Education including Holt, Rinehart, and Winston to
Houghton Mifflin
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in 2007, part of a reorganization that created Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH). HRW was then combined with Houghton Mifflin Company's McDougal Littell subsidiary to form Holt McDougal.
Details
Holt McDougal publishes textbooks on
mathematics
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,
language arts,
social studies,
science
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,
health
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, and
world language (
French
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,
Spanish, and
German
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). It has published children's books for the ''
Weekly Reader'' Book Club including ''
Sweet Pickles
''Sweet Pickles'' is a series of 40 children's books by Ruth Lerner Perle, Jacquelyn Reinach, and Richard Hefter and published by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, having sold over 50 million copies. The books are set in the fictional town of Sweet Pickl ...
'', ''
Fraggle Rock'', and
Snoopy
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. This American publishing company has offices in Austin, Texas and Evanston, Illinois and with its parent company, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
See also
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Books in the United States
As of 2018, several firms in the United States rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Cengage Learning, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill Education, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and Wiley.
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References
External links
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: classroomHolt, Rinehart and Winstonat the
Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB)
John C. Winston Companyat ISFDB
Rinehart & Companyat ISFDB
Book publishing companies of the United States
Companies based in Austin, Texas
Publishing companies established in 2007
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
American companies established in 2007
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