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Line 1: {{short description|Educational and academic publisher}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2024}} {{More citations|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox publisher |name=ABC-Clio/Greenwood |image = |parent = [[ |founded = 1967 |founder = Harold Mason Line 12 ⟶ 13: |country = United States |headquarters = [[Santa Barbara, California]] |imprints = |url = {{Official URL}}
}} '''Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.''' ('''GPG ==History== Line 22 ⟶ 25: 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Richard Candida |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=jFAyDwAAQBAJ&q=Greenwood+publishing+was+sold+to+Williamhouse-Regency&pg=PA234 |title=Improvised Continent: Pan-Americanism and Cultural Exchange |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |date=2017 |isbn=9780812249422 |pages=234 |chapter=Chapter 12}}</ref> 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 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. Line 38 ⟶ 41: 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 1, 2008 |title=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Grants ABC-CLIO Perpetual License to Publish Greenwood Publishing Group Titles |url= https://www.redorbit.com/news/entertainment/1574384/houghton_mifflin_harcourt_grants_abcclio_perpetual_license_to_publish_greenwood/ |access-date=September 24, 2020 |work=RedOrbit}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20081006/7234-news-briefs-week-of-10-6-2008.html |title=ABC-CLIO Takes Over Greenwood |access-date=September 20, 2014 |date=October 6, 2008 |work=[[Publishers Weekly]]}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Westport's Greenwood Publishing to Close, 150 Jobs Cut |work=Westport Now |location=Westport, Connecticut |url= https://westportnow.com/index.php?/v2/comments/westports_greenwood_publishing_to_close_150_jobs_cut/ |access-date=December 24, 2020}}</ref> The transfer of GPG to ABC-CLIO occurred during 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://dreamitinc.com/portfolio/greenwood-houghton-mifflin-harcourt/ |title=Greenwood-Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | DA Creative Director |access-date=2017-01-13 |archive-date=2017-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116153412/https://dreamitinc.com/portfolio/greenwood-houghton-mifflin-harcourt/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In December 2021, [[Bloomsbury Publishing]] bought ABC-Clio and with it Greenwood.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Milliot |first1=Jim |title=Bloomsbury Buys ABC-CLIO for $22.9Million |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/industry-deals/article/88138-bloomsbury-buys-abc-clio-for-22-9-million.html |access-date=20 August 2024 |work=Publishers Weekly |date=16 December 2021}}</ref> ==Subsidiaries== Line 46 ⟶ 51: ===Former imprints=== * Praeger Security International (international security studies - founded by Heather Ruland Staines and Adam T. Heath): Became subsidiary of ABC-CLIO. * [[Frederick A. Praeger (publisher)|Praeger Publishers]] (scholarly and general interest): Became subsidiary of [[ABC-CLIO]]. * Libraries Unlimited (for libraries and teachers): Became subsidiary of ABC-CLIO. Line 60 ⟶ 65: ==External links== *{{Official website}}
*[http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/bibliog10.shtml FolkLib Index – Bio-Bibliographies by Greenwood Press] – all 205 known books published ▲*[http://www.folklib.net/index/discog/bibliog10.shtml FolkLib Index – Bio-Bibliographies by Greenwood Press] – all 205 known books published 1982-2005
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