Sams Publishing is dedicated to the publishing of technical training manuals and is an imprint of

Pearson plc Pearson plc is a British multinational corporation, multinational publishing and education company headquartered in London, England. It was founded as a construction business in the 1840s but switched to publishing in the 1920s.J. A. Spende ...

, the global publishing and education company. Sams Publishing was founded in 1946 by

Howard W. Sams Sams Publishing is dedicated to the publishing of technical training manuals and is an imprint of Pearson plc, the global publishing and education company. Sams Publishing was founded in 1946 by Howard W. Sams, originally producing radio schemat ...

, originally producing radio schematics and repair manuals. It was acquired by

ITT ITT may refer to: Communication * Infantry-Tank Telephone, a device allowing infantrymen to speak to the occupants of armoured vehicles. Mathematics *Intuitionistic type theory, other name of Martin-Löf Type Theory *Intensional type theory B ...

in 1967. ITT sold its publishing division in 1985 to

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. In 1987, Sams was split into three divisions with the computer book division transferred to what later became

Macmillan Computer Publishing Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publi ...

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Macmillan sold its computer publishing to Simon & Schuster in 1991. Simon & Schuster later sold its education division to the imprint's current owner, Pearson. The computer books division is notable for its "Teach Yourself", "Unleashed" and "21 days" book series.

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