Silver Burdett
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Status | Defunct |
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Founded | 1888 |
Defunct | 1999 |
Country of origin | United States |
Publication types | Books |
Nonfiction topics | Music |
Silver Burdett was an American primary education textbook publishing imprint owned by Pearson Education, which is a division of media conglomerate Pearson PLC.
History[]
Silver Burdett first formed as a company in 1888 when Frank W. Burdett purchased a controlling interest in the textbook publishing company, Silver & Company.[1] In 1962, it was acquired by Time Inc., and it became the distributor of Time-Life Books to schools and libraries.[1] In 1965 it became the first division of the , a multi-million dollar collaboration between Time Inc. and General Electric.[1] Simon & Schuster purchased it in 1986, and merged it with Ginn & Company, a leading el-hi (elementary school and high school) textbook publisher - which formed the imprint Silver Burdett & Ginn.[1] In 1998, Pearson PLC acquired Simon & Schuster's educational businesses (which included Silver Burdett & Ginn) from S&S parent Viacom, and created Pearson Education.[1]
Termination[]
Pearson closed Silver Burdett in 1999.[2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Pearson Education, History, retrieved 2008-10-19
- ^ "Six Macmillan Library Kids Imprints Closed". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2018-05-13.
- Book publishing companies of the United States
- Educational publishing companies
- Former Viacom subsidiaries
- Pearson plc
- Publishing companies established in 1888