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Find sources: "Greenwood Publishing Group" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Parent company ABC-CLIO Status Active Founded 1967 Founder Harold Mason Country of origin United States Headquarters location Santa Barbara, California Distribution Worldwide Nonfiction topics Reference works, scholarly and general interest, library and teaching materials Imprints Greenwood Press (reference works) Praeger Publishers (scholarly and general interest) Libraries Unlimited (for libraries and teachers) Official website www.greenwood.com ABC-CLIO/Greenwood is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-CLIO. Established in 1967 as Greenwood Press, Inc. and based in Westport, Connecticut,[1] Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG) publishes reference works under its Greenwood Press imprint, and scholarly, professional, and general interest books under its related imprint, Praeger Publishers (/ˈpreɪɡər/). Also part of GPG is Libraries Unlimited, which publishes professional works for librarians and teachers.[2] Contents 1 History 1.1 1967–1999 1.2 2000–present 2 Subsidiaries 2.1 Imprints 2.2 Former imprints 2.3 Former subsidiaries 3 References 4 External links History[edit] 1967–1999[edit] The company was founded as Greenwood Press, Inc. in 1967 by Harold Mason, a librarian and antiquarian bookseller, and Harold Schwartz who had a background in trade publishing. Based in Greenwood, New York, the company initially focused on reprinting out-of-print works, particularly titles listed in the American Library Association's first edition of Books for College Libraries (1967), under the Greenwood Press imprint, and out-of-print periodicals published as 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 American Stock Exchange, which led to further expanding its reprint activities as well as starting a microform publishing imprint, Greenwood Microforms.[3] By 1970 a small scholarly monograph program was established and Robert Hagelstein, formerly with the Johnson Reprint Corporation, a division of Academic Press, 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 Congressional Information Service, Inc (CIS) and in 1979 became part of the Dutch publishing giant, Elsevier, following Elsevier's purchase of CIS. That same year the press initiated its Quorum Books imprint, which published professional titles in business and law. On January 1, 1986 GPI expanded yet again when it purchased Praeger Publishers, founded by Frederick A. Praeger in 1949,[4] from CBS, Inc.,[5] and 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. When Elsevier merged with Reed International in 1993, GPG became part of Reed Elsevier, and by the mid-1990s the operational part of GPG joined with Heinemann USA, 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 Ablex and Oryx imprints and Libraries Unlimited, and expanded GPG's on line and CD-ROM products under its Greenwood Electronic Media imprint. 2000–present[edit] 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 Houghton Mifflin Company as a result of Houghton's acquisition of Harcourt.[6] On October 1, 2008, ABC-CLIO and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 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, Praeger Security International and Libraries Unlimited. In addition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt would also transfer certain assets, including copyrights, contracts and inventory, of Greenwood Publishing Group to ABC-CLIO. This agreement became effective immediately.[7][8] The 88 Post Road West office in Westport, Connecticut was closed as a result, with layoffs scheduled to begin in first week in December 2008.[9] The transfer of GPG to ABC-CLIO occurred during 2009.[10] Subsidiaries[edit] Imprints[edit] Greenwood Press (reference works) Greenwood World Publishing Former imprints[edit] Praeger Publishers (scholarly and general interest): Became subsidiary of ABC-CLIO. Libraries Unlimited (for libraries and teachers): Became subsidiary of ABC-CLIO. Former subsidiaries[edit] Heinemann USA References[edit] ^ "Company Overview of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc". Businessweek. Retrieved 8 May 2013. ^ "About us: Greenwood publishing company profile". Greenwood Publishing Group. Retrieved 2009-09-08. ^ Smith, Richard Candida (2017). "Chapter 12". Improvised Continent: Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 234. ISBN 9780812249422. ^ Lyons, RD (June 5, 1994). "Frederick A. Praeger Dies at 78; Published Books on Communism". The New York Times. Retrieved October 16, 2012. ^ "CBS Agrees to Sell Praeger Publishers Unit". The New York Times. 1985-12-18. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-20. ^ "Houghton Mifflin Company Completes Acquisition of Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann Divisions from Reed Elsevier, Creating Preeminent K–12 Educational Publisher". Houghton Mifflin. 2007-12-13. Archived from the original on 2012-02-10. Retrieved 2008-07-24.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) ^ "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Grants ABC-CLIO Perpetual License to Publish Greenwood Publishing Group Titles". Redorbit. 2008-10-01. Retrieved 2020-09-24. ^ "ABC-CLIO Takes Over Greenwood". Publishers Weekly. 2008-10-06. Retrieved 2014-09-20. ^ "Westport's Greenwood Publishing to Close, 150 Jobs Cut - WestportNow.com - Westport, Connecticut". westportnow.com. Retrieved 2020-09-24. ^ Greenwood-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt External links[edit] ABC-CLIO/Greenwood home page FolkLib Index – Bio-Bibliographies by Greenwood Press – all 205 known books published 1982-2005 "List of Radical Periodicals in the United States (Reissued 1968–70)." – list of the 109 radical periodicals reissued by Greenwood. Authority control ISNI: 0000 0001 2254 5077 VIAF: 148319419 WorldCat Identities: viaf-148319419 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greenwood_Publishing_Group&oldid=998481464" Categories: Publishing companies established in 1967 Book publishing companies based in Connecticut Companies based in Westport, Connecticut 1967 establishments in Connecticut Hidden categories: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown Articles with short description Short description matches Wikidata Articles needing additional references from September 2019 All articles needing additional references Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version Languages فارسی Français Bahasa Indonesia Italiano Norsk bokmål Română Русский Türkçe 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 5 January 2021, at 15:53 (UTC). 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