Allyn & Bacon, founded in 1868, is a
higher education
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textbook
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publisher in the areas of
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,
humanities
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and
social science
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s. It is an
imprint of
Pearson Education
Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc. The subsidiary was formed in 1998, when Pearson plc acquired Simon & Schuster's educatio ...
, the world's largest education publishing and technology company, which is part of Pearson PLC.
Allyn & Bacon was an independent company until it was purchased by Esquire, Inc., the former publishers of
the magazine of the same name, in 1981. Esquire, Inc. was sold to
Gulf+Western in 1983, and Allyn & Bacon became part of
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster LLC (, ) is an American publishing house owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since 2023. It was founded in New York City in 1924, by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. Along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group US ...
's education division.
Pearson purchased the education and reference divisions of Simon & Schuster in 1998.
In 2007, Allyn & Bacon merged with Merrill, also a
Pearson company. As a result of the merge, the company's website changed from ablongman.com to pearsonhighered.com. The name still persists in a few titles like The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing by Ramage, Bean & Johnson, the 8th edition of which was released in 2018.
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Book publishing companies based in Massachusetts
Companies based in Boston
Gulf and Western Industries
Pearson plc
Publishing companies established in 1868
1868 establishments in Massachusetts
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