Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. was a division of the
Meredith Publishing Company. It is a result of the merger of
Appleton-Century Company 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 Associa ...
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
Prentice Hall was an American major educational publisher owned by Savvas Learning Company. Prentice Hall publishes print and digital content for the 6–12 and higher-education market, and distributes its technical titles through the Safari ...
in 1973. Part of the company became part of Hawthorn Books and New Win Publishing.
Timeline
* 1948
Appleton-Century Company, founded in 1933, merged with F. S. Crofts Co., founded in 1924, to form Appleton-Century-Crofts.
* 1960 Purchased by
Meredith Publishing Company
* 1969 Meredith trade books division sold to
Hawthorn Books
* 1973 Appleton textbook division purchased by
Prentice Hall
Prentice Hall was an American major educational publisher owned by Savvas Learning Company. Prentice Hall publishes print and digital content for the 6–12 and higher-education market, and distributes its technical titles through the Safari ...
; the medical division retains the Appleton name
* 1974
New Century division sold to
Charles Walther
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...
, and was later renamed New Win Publishing
* 1998 Prentice Hall merged with
Pearson Education
Pearson Education is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well for students directly. Pearson owns educational media brands including Addison–Wesley, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, eCollege ...
* 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
An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, f ...
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