Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. was a division of the
Meredith Publishing Company The ''Meredith Publishing Company'', a division of Meredith Corporation
Meredith Corporation was an American media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa, that owned magazines, television stations, websites, and radio stations. Its publication ...
. It is a result of the merger of
Appleton-Century Company
D. Appleton & Company was an American publishing company founded by Daniel Appleton, who opened a general store which included books. He published his first book in 1831. The company's publications gradually extended over the entire field of li ...
with
F.S. Crofts Co. in 1948. Prior to that
The Century Company
The Century Company was an American publishing company, founded in 1881.
History
It was originally a subsidiary of Charles Scribner's Sons, named Scribners and Company, but was bought by Roswell Smith and renamed by him after the Century Associ ...
had merged with
D. Appleton & Company in 1933.
The Century Company and its subsequent incarnations published the ''
New Century Dictionary''.
Eventually Meredith sold the majority of the company and the Appleton name to
Prentice-Hall in 1973. Part of the company became part of Hawthorn Books and New Win Publishing.
Timeline
* 1948
Appleton-Century Company
D. Appleton & Company was an American publishing company founded by Daniel Appleton, who opened a general store which included books. He published his first book in 1831. The company's publications gradually extended over the entire field of li ...
, founded in 1933, merged with F. S. Crofts Co., founded in 1924, to form Appleton-Century-Crofts.
* 1960 Purchased by
Meredith Publishing Company The ''Meredith Publishing Company'', a division of Meredith Corporation
Meredith Corporation was an American media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa, that owned magazines, television stations, websites, and radio stations. Its publication ...
* 1969 Meredith trade books division sold to
Hawthorn Books
Hawthorn Books was an American publishing firm located in New York City that operated from 1952 to 1977. Originally founded as a subsidiary of Prentice-Hall, Hawthorn Books went out of business after its publishing assets were acquired by E. P. Du ...
* 1973 Appleton textbook division purchased by
Prentice Hall; the medical division retains the Appleton name
* 1974
New Century division sold to
Charles Walther, and was later renamed New Win Publishing
* 1998 Prentice Hall merged with
Pearson Education
* 1999 Pearson Education sells successor company Appleton & Lange to
McGraw-Hill
McGraw Hill is an American educational publishing company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that publishes educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education. The company also publishes refere ...
* 2003
Academic Learning Company, LLC acquired New Win Publishing, which was a division of New Century Publishing
Imprints
* Century vagabond books of travel
See also
*
Duell, Sloan and Pearce
Duell, Sloan and Pearce was a publishing company located in New York City. It was founded in 1939 by C. Halliwell Duell, Samuel Sloan and Charles A. Pearce. It initially published general fiction and non-fiction, but not westerns, light romances ...
References
* ''New Century Dictionary''. (1963). ii. New York:Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.
External links
Appleton-Century mss., 1846-1962at the Lilly Library, Indiana University
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Defunct book publishing companies of the United States
Publishing companies established in 1948
Publishing companies disestablished in 1973
1948 establishments in New York (state)
1973 disestablishments in New York (state)
American companies established in 1948
Companies disestablished in 1973