Appleton-Century-Crofts

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Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. was a division of the

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

• 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 New Century division sold to Charles Walther, 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 Academic Learning Company, LLC 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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