Alpha Books, a member of
Penguin Random House
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, is an American publisher best known for its
Complete Idiot's Guides series. It began as a division of
Macmillan.
Pearson Education
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acquired Macmillan General Reference (MGR) from
Simon & Schuster
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in 1998 and retained Complete Idiot's Guides while the rest of MGR was sold to
IDG Books. Alpha moved from
Pearson Education
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to
Penguin Group
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in 2003. Alpha became part of sister company
DK in 2012.
, the Complete Idiot's Guides contains over 120 books.
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Penguin Group (USA)
Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
Penguin Random House
Publishing companies established in 1991
1991 establishments in New York (state)
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