Appleton-Century-Crofts

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Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. was a division of the Meredith Publishing Company. It is a result of the merger of Appleton-Century Company with in 1948. Prior to that The Century Company had merged with D. Appleton & Company in 1933.

The Century Company and its subsequent incarnations published the New Century Dictionary.

Eventually Meredith sold the majority of the company and the Appleton name to Prentice-Hall in 1973.^[1] Part of the company became part of Hawthorn Books and New Win Publishing.

Timeline[]

• 1948 Appleton-Century Company, founded in 1933, merged with F. S. Crofts Co., founded in 1924, to form Appleton-Century-Crofts.
• 1960 Purchased by Meredith Publishing Company^[2]
• 1969 Meredith trade books division sold to Hawthorn Books
• 1973 Appleton textbook division purchased by Prentice Hall; the medical division retains the Appleton name^[3]
• 1974 sold to , and was later renamed New Win Publishing
• 1998 Prentice Hall merged with Pearson Education
• 1999 Pearson Education sells successor company Appleton & Lange to McGraw-Hill^[4]
• 2003 acquired New Win Publishing, which was a division of New Century Publishing

Imprints[]

• Century vagabond books of travel

See also[]

• Duell, Sloan and Pearce

References[]

• New Century Dictionary. (1963). ii. New York:Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc.

External links[]

• Appleton-Century mss., 1846-1962 at the Lilly Library, Indiana University

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