page_title: American Book Company (1890)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: American Book Company (1890) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: American Book Company, letter 25 September 1916 New York envelope in my collection Türkçe: Amerikan Book Company, letter 25 September 1916 New York 1916 tarihli Amerikan Book Company mektup, mektup zarfı benim koleksiyonumdadır.
context_page_description: The American Book Company was an educational book publisher in the United States that specialized in elementary school, secondary school and collegiate-level textbooks. It is best known for publishing the McGuffey Readers, which sold 120 million copies between 1836 and 1960.
context_section_description: American Book Company was formed in 1890 by the consolidation of Van Antwerp, Bragg and Co., A.S. Barnes & Co., D. Appleton and Co., and Ivison, Blakeman and Co.  It was acquired by Litton Industries in 1967 and existed as a division of Litton Educational Publishing, Inc. until being sold to the International Thomson Organization in 1981.  Thomson then sold its American Book Company K-12 assets to D. C. Heath and Company in 1981. The company was absorbed into D. C. Heath and ceased to exist as an imprint.  Any remaining K-12 assets of the American Book Company are now owned by Houghton Mifflin (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), which acquired D. C. Heath and Company in 1995.
  Many of the college level textbook rights of ABC/Litton were sold by International Thomson as well, to Van Nostrand Reinhold, though some remained under the Wadsworth imprint at Thomson, which is now Cengage Learning.
caption: American Book Company, letter envelope 25 September 1916
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