Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan sold its U.S. operations to the Brett family, George Platt Brett, Sr. and George Platt Brett, Jr. in 1951, resulting in the creation of an American company, Macmillan Publishing. Previously, Mr. Brett managed the U. S. subsidiary, which his grandfather George Edward Brett created in 1896. Even with the split of the American company from its parent company in England, George Brett, Jr. and Harold MacMillan remained close personal friends.
Mr. George P. Brett, Jr. made the following comments in a letter dated 23 January 1947 to Daniel Macmillan about his family's devotion to the American Publishing Industry:
For the record my grandfather was employed by Macmillan's of England as a salesman. He came to the United States with his family in the service of Macmillan's of England and built up a business of approximately $50,000 before he died. He was succeeded . . . by my father, who eventually incorporated The Macmillan Company of New York and built up business of about $9,000,000. I succeeded my father, and we currently doing a business of approximately $12,000,000. So then, the name of Brett and the name of Macmillan have been and are synonymous in the United States.
Under the leadership of the Brett family, MacMillan served as the publisher of American authors, Winston Churchill, Margaret Mitchell, who wrote "Gone with the Wind", and Jack London, author of "White Fang" and "Call of the Wild".
The Bretts remained in control of the American offices of Macmillan from its creation in 1869 to the early 1960s, “a span matched by few other families in the history of United States business.”[2]
Through its merger with Crowell Collier and other acquisitions, the U.S. publisher became a media giant in its own right, as Macmillan, Inc. It was acquired by the controversial British tycoon Robert Maxwell in 1989 and eventually dismembered in the wake of Maxwell's death (1991) and the subsequent bankruptcy proceedings.
Pearson acquired the Macmillan name in America since 1998, following its purchase of the Simon & Schuster educational and professional group (which included various Macmillan properties).[3] Holtzbrinck purchased it from them in 2001.[4]. However, McGraw-Hill continues to market its pre-kindergarten through elementary school titles under its Macmillan/McGraw-Hill brand. U.S. operations of Georg von Holtzbrinck are now known as Macmillan.
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Divisions
The company is made up of over 50 different divisions operating in five areas of publishing:
- Education publishing including English language teaching (as Macmillan Education)
- Academic publishing including reference (as Palgrave Macmillan)
- Science, technological and medical publishing (as Nature Publishing Group), including Nature and other journals
- Fiction and non-fiction book publishing (as Pan Macmillan), under the imprints Pan Books, Picador, Macmillan New Writing, Papermac, Macmillan, Sidgwick & Jackson, Campbell Books, Boxtree, Ltd., Channel Four Books and Macmillan Children’s Books
- MPS eServices[5] Provides Enterprise Software solutions/website Portal development and Business process Automation consulting for Publishers in UK and US.
- Publishing Services through MPS Technologies[6] offering Content Delivery, Web Analytics, Fulfilment Services and Technology related services as well as distribution and production
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References
- ^ History
- ^ Macmillan: Information and Much More from Answers.com
- ^ Publishers Weekly, http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6488163.html
- ^ Bookseller, [1]
- ^ MPS eServices | Home
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External links
- Official website
- Official website of Macmillan/McGraw Hill
- The Macmillan Group from the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group website
- MPS eServices formerly eMacmillan Software services
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Additional Resources
MacMillan A Publishing Tradition by Elizabeth James ISBN 0-333-73517-X
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