Doubleday (Publisher)
Doubleday is considered to be one of the largest publishing houses in the world. Its history was shaped by the Doubleday family for a century until it was taken over by Bertelsmann AG in 1986 .
The publishing house was founded in 1897 by Frank Nelson Doubleday and Samuel McClure as the Doubleday & McClure Company. Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Olivant was the first book published in 1898, followed by Rudyard Kipling's The Day's Work that same year and McTeague by Frank Norris in 1899 .
Doubleday had first visited Kipling on November 30, 1895; while Doubleday and McClure soon went their separate ways, Kipling, one of the most widely read English-language authors of his time, stayed with the publishing house. The Day's Work was the company's first major success.
While the collaboration with McClure was dissolved again on December 31, 1899, the merger with Walter Hines Page , a social reformer and editor of The Atlantic Monthly, to form the new publishing house Doubleday, Page and Company and to a continued success on January 1, 1900 to lead. In addition to Rudyard Kipling and Frank Norris, the works of Joseph Conrad , Arthur Conan Doyle , Edna Ferber , Joel Chandler Harris , O. Henry , TE Lawrence , Sinclair Lewis , Gene Stratton-Porter , Booth Tarkington and Kate Douglas Wiggin have been published.
In 1921, Doubleday acquired control of William Heinemann , a British publishing house, and in 1927 the George H. Doran Company , so that the publisher was renamed Doubleday, Doran and Company - and at that time was the largest publishing house in the English-speaking world. From 1946 the company called itself Doubleday and Company .
1980 bought the company under its president Nelson Doubleday, Jr. , the grandson of the publisher's founder, the New York Mets for 21.1 million US dollars; In 1986, Doubleday Jr. and Fred Wilpon bought the Mets from the publishing house for $ 100 million, a record price at the time. On September 26, 1986 Nelson Doubleday Jr. sold the publishing house for a rumored US $ 475 million to Bertelsmann AG , and his shares in the Mets to Wilpon in 2002.
Doubleday has been part of Penguin Random House since 2013 .
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- ^ Making the Bestseller List - Publishers and Publishing: A Case Study, University of Virginia
- ↑ http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50711F63F5E0C748EDDA00894DE484D81&scp=19&sq=Bertelsmann%20Doubleday%20&%20Co%20September%201986&st=cse ( no longer available page , search in web archives ) Info: The Link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. New York Times of September 27, 1986
