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Allyn & Bacon, founded in 1868, is a higher education textbook publisher in the areas of education, humanities and social sciences.It is an imprint of Pearson Education, the world's largest education publishing and technology company, which is part of Pearson PLC.
In the United States, the largest textbook publishers are Pearson Education, Cengage, McGraw-Hill Education, and Wiley. Together they control 90% of market revenue. [9] Another textbook publisher is Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [10] The market for textbooks does not reflect classic supply and demand because of agency problems. [11]
Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc.The subsidiary was formed in 1998, when Pearson plc acquired Simon & Schuster's educational business and combined it with Pearson's existing education company Addison-Wesley Longman. [1]
Open textbooks are flexible in ways that traditional textbooks are not, [66] which gives instructors more freedom to use them in the way that best meets their instructional needs. [67] [68] One common frustration with traditional textbooks is the frequency of new editions, which force the instructor to modify the curriculum to the new book.
This is a list of English-language book publishers.It includes imprints of larger publishing groups, which may have resulted from business mergers. Included are academic publishers, technical manual publishers, publishers for the traditional book trade (both for adults and children), religious publishers, and small press publishers, among other types.
In 2000, Thomson Learning was created out of a restructuring of International Thomson Publishing. [16] Later that year Thomson acquired the higher education title of Harcourt from Reed Elsevier, [17] and the test prep publisher Arco from IDG Books. [18] In 2002, Wadsworth acquired F.E. Peacock Publishers. [19]
Abeka Book, LLC, known as A Beka Book until 2017, is an American publisher affiliated with Pensacola Christian College (PCC) that produces K-12 curriculum materials that are used by Christian schools and homeschooling families around the world. [3] [4] [5] It is named after Rebekah Horton, wife of college president Arlin Horton.
The company was founded in 1981 by Charles Christensen and Joan Feinberg as Bedford Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.. Among others works, Bedford/St. Martin's has published The Bedford Handbook and A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker, Patterns for College Writing, The Bedford Reader, The American Promise, Ways of the World and Writer's Help.