Westview Press was an American publishing company headquartered in
Boulder, Colorado
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founded in 1975.
Field of work
Westview primarily publishes
textbook
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s.
History
Westview Press was founded by
Frederick A. Praeger in 1975. Praeger sold Westview in 1991.
Westview was purchased by
HarperCollins
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.
HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British–American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five (publishers), Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette Book Group USA, Hachette, Macmi ...
and Westview had difficulty working together due to very different
corporate cultures and values.
Perseus bought Westview in March 1998 from HarperCollins.
In April 2016,
Perseus Books Group's publishing operations, including Westview, were purchased by
Hachette Book Group.
Hachette Book Group's Perseus Books Group division sold it to
Taylor & Francis
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in 2017.
Book series
Series published 1975–1990 (Frederick A. Praeger )
References
Further reading
* Evans, Nancy (1979)
"Small is Beautiful - and Profitable" in: ''Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning'', Vol. 11, Issue 2, pp. 44-47.
* Geiser, E.; Dolin, A.; Topkis, G. (2019).
The Business of Book Publishing: Papers by Practitioners'. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-31502-8.
External links
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1975 establishments in Colorado
Academic publishing companies
Book publishing companies of the United States
Companies based in Boulder, Colorado
Publishing companies established in 1975