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Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG) was an educational and academic publisher (
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through
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level) which was part of ABC-Clio. Since 2021, ABC-Clio and its suite of
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, including GPG, are collectively imprints of British publishing house
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. The Greenwood name stopped being used for new books in 2023. Established in 1967 as Greenwood Press, Inc., and based in
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, GPG published
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under its Greenwood Press imprint; and scholarly, professional, and general-interest books under its related imprint, Praeger Publishers (). Also part of GPG was Libraries Unlimited, which published professional works for librarians and teachers. Both of the latter became stand-alone imprints of ABC-Clio, in 2008–2009, after its purchase of GPG.


History


1967–1999

The company was founded as Greenwood Press, Inc. (GPI) in 1967 by Harold Mason, a librarian and antiquarian bookseller, and Harold Schwartz, who had a background in trade publishing. Based in
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, the company initially focused on reprinting
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works, particularly titles listed in the
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's first edition of ''Books for College Libraries'' (1967), under the Greenwood Press imprint; and out-of-print
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, published with the series name "American Radical Periodicals" under the Greenwood Reprint imprint. In 1969, the company was sold to Williamhouse-Regency, a paper and stationery manufacturing company then on the
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, which led to further expanding its reprint activities as well as starting a
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publishing imprint, Greenwood Microforms. By 1970, the company established a small scholarly
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project. The same year, Robert Hagelstein, formerly with the Johnson Reprint Corporation division of
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, was hired as vice-president. In 1973, Mason and Schwartz left the company, and Hagelstein was named president, a position he would hold until his retirement at the end of 1999. During those twenty-seven years, the press wound down its reprint activities, diverting its focus to new scholarly, reference, and professional books. This large-scale redirection of the company resulted in the publication of more than 10,000 titles during those years. On August 25, 1976, the company was sold to the
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(CIS). In 1979, it became part of the Dutch publishing giant
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following the latter's purchase of CIS. That same year, the Greenwood subsidiary initiated its Quorum Books imprint, which published professional titles in
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and
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. On January 1, 1986, GPI expanded further when it purchased Praeger Publishers (founded in 1950 as
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) from CBS, Inc.; and again in 1989 when it acquired Bergin & Garvey and Auburn House. At the beginning of 1990, the company's name was changed from Greenwood Press, Inc., to Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG). When Elsevier merged with Reed International in 1993, GPG became part of
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, and by the mid-1990s the operational part of GPG joined with
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, which had been part of Reed. When Hagelstein retired at the end of 1999, Wayne Smith was named president. Under Smith, GPG made a number of additional acquisitions including the
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, Oryx Press, and Libraries Unlimited imprints, and expanded GPG's
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products under its Greenwood Electronic Media imprint.


2000–present

On July 12, 2001, Reed Elsevier completed its acquisition of Harcourt. Harcourt became a wholly owned subsidiary of Reed Elsevier and GPG became part of Harcourt Education. On December 13, 2007, GPG became part of
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as a result of Houghton's acquisition of Harcourt. On October 1, 2008, ABC-Clio and
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(HMH) announced an agreement granting ABC-Clio a perpetual license to use the imprints and publish the titles of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), including Greenwood Press, Praeger Publishers (including Praeger Security International), and Libraries Unlimited. In addition, HMH would also transfer certain assets, including copyrights, contracts, and inventory, of Greenwood Publishing Group to ABC-Clio. This agreement became effective immediately. The 88 Post Road West office in
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, was closed as a result; layoffs began in December 2008. The transfer of GPG to ABC-Clio occurred during 2009. In December 2021,
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bought ABC-Clio and with it Greenwood.


Subsidiaries


Imprints

* Greenwood Press (
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s) ** Greenwood World Publishing ** Greenwood Reprint ** Greenwood Electronic Media ** Greenwood Microforms


Former imprints

* Praeger Publishers (scholarly and general interest): Became subsidiary of ABC-Clio. ** Praeger Security International (international security studies - founded by Heather Ruland Staines and Adam T. Heath): Became subsidiary of ABC-Clio. * Libraries Unlimited (for libraries and teachers): Became subsidiary of ABC-Clio. *
Ablex Publishing Ablex Publishing Corporation is a privately held publisher of books and academic journals in New York City, New York, USA. It was previously located in Norwood, New Jersey, and also at one time in Westport and Stamford, Connecticut. Ablex publis ...
* Auburn House * Bergin & Garvey * Oryx Press * Quorum Books


Former subsidiaries

*
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Selected publications

* '' The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Folklore'' * ''
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''


References


External links

*
FolkLib Index – Bio-bibliographies by Greenwood Press
– all 205 known books published 1982–2005 {{Authority control Publishing companies established in 1967 Book publishing companies based in Connecticut Companies based in Westport, Connecticut 1967 establishments in Connecticut