Markt+Technik is a publisher of books and magazines based on computer topics which was established in 1976.
The publisher became well known in the 1980s and 1990s through the publications of computer magazines such as ''64'er'', ''
Power Play
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* Powerplay (cricket), a rule concerning fielding restrictions in one-day international cricket
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'', ''
Happy Computer'' and ''Computer Persönlich''. The publishing house also published books and software for
home computers, in particular for the
Commodore 64
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, including
dBASE and
GEOS. They also published
compendia
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for programming and PC applications.
In the 1990s, the book business was separated from the magazine business. The magazines were initially spun off into the subsidiary ''Magna Media Verlag AG'' and then later (around 1998) introduced into the ''WEKA Verlagsgruppe''.
In February 2013 the
Pearson Pearson may refer to:
Organizations Education
*Lester B. Pearson College, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
*Pearson College (UK), London, owned by Pearson PLC
*Lester B. Pearson High School (disambiguation)
Companies
*Pearson PLC, a UK-based int ...
Germany GmbH announced that for economic reasons the publishing series Markt+Technik would end in the summer of 2013 and no more new books would be published.
In May 2014 ''Braun Handels GmbH'' bought the rights to the brand, as well as the rights to all past series of books, and reestablished Markt+Technik.
References
External links
Official website
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Book publishing companies of Germany
Mass media in Munich
1976 establishments in Germany