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Palgrave Macmillan
Parent company
Springer Nature
Founded2000
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationLondon
Publication typesBooks, academic journals, monographs, ebooks
No. of employees170
Official websitewww.palgrave.com
2008 conference booth

Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden. Its programme includes textbooks, journals, monographs, professional and reference works in print and online. It maintains offices in London, New York, Shanghai, Melbourne, Sydney, Hong Kong, Delhi, and Johannesburg.

Palgrave Macmillan was created in 2000 when St. Martin's Press in the US united with Macmillan Publishers in the UK to combine their worldwide academic publishing operations. The company was known simply as Palgrave until 2002, but has since been known as Palgrave Macmillan.[1]

It is a subsidiary of

Nature Publishing Group and Macmillan Education, having moved from Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
in 2014.

History

Palgrave is named after the Palgrave family. Classical historian

, and his four sons were all closely tied with Macmillan Publishers in the 19th century:

Palgrave Macmillan publishes

. In 2009, Palgrave Macmillan made over 4,500 scholarly ebooks available to libraries.

Distribution clients

Palgrave Macmillan represents the sales, marketing and distribution interests of

, and University Science Books outside the US, Canada, Australia and the Far East.

Palgrave Macmillan previously distributed I.B. Tauris in the U.S. and Canada; and Manchester University Press, Pluto Press, and Zed Books in the U.S.

In Australia Palgrave represents both the Macmillan Group, including Palgrave Macmillan and

Taylor and Francis, Saqi Books, Scion Publishers, Seven Stories Press, Sinauer Associates, Tilde University Press, University Science Books, and Zed Books
.

Palgrave has been criticised for a pricing structure which "will limit readership to the privileged few", as opposed to options for "

Palgrave Pivot

Launched in 2012, Palgrave Pivot is an imprint of Palgrave Macmillan, aimed at publishing shorter, "rigorously peer-reviewed" monographs, focused on new important research across the Humanities and Social Sciences.[6]

Authors

Notable authors include (alphabetically by last name):

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