Addison-Wesley
| Addison-Wesley | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1942 |
| Seat | Boston , United States |
| Branch | Book publisher |
| Website | www.addison-wesley.com |
| Status: 2016 | |
Addison-Wesley is an originally American publisher for school and textbooks and since 1988 an imprint of the British media group Pearson ( Pearson Education ).
history
Melbourne Wesley Cummings and Lew Addison Cummings founded the American publisher in 1942. The first publication was Mechanics by MIT professor Francis Weston Sears . The first book related to IT topics was Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer by Maurice V. Wilkes , David J. Wheeler, and Stanley Gill .
In 1977 they took over the WA Benjamin publishing house and united it with their imprint Cummings, founded in 1968, to form Benjamin-Cummings.
In 1988 Addison-Wesley was bought by Pearson and in 1994 merged with the Imprint Longman to Addison-Wesley Longman. After taking over the textbooks division of Simon & Schuster in 1998, Pearson merged this division into Pearson Education. In 2004 Addison-Wesley Longman moved from Reading, Massachusetts to Boston.
German offshoot
| Addison-Wesley Germany | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1984 |
| resolution | 2013 |
| Seat | Bonn |
| Branch | Book publisher |
| Website | www.addison-wesley.de |
| Status: 2016 | |
The specialist publisher Addison-Wesley Germany was founded in Bonn in 1984. The focus was on publications on IT topics and, in addition to Pearson Studium, had been part of the Pearson Education Deutschland GmbH publishing group since 1999 - a subsidiary of the international media group Pearson.
In early 2013, Pearson announced that the publisher would withdraw from the IT and photography segments and discontinue the Addison-Wesley and Markt + Technik brands at the end of 2013. The naming rights for Markt + Technik were sold to Braun Handels GmbH in May 2014 and the publishing house was re-established, the rights to Addison-Wesley remained unaffected and lay idle.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Schwichtenberg: Pearson confirms the end of Addison-Wesley and Markt & Technik. In: Heise Developer. March 22, 2013, accessed December 25, 2014 .
- ↑ Holger Schwichtenberg: Markt & Technik awakens to new life. In: Heise online. May 27, 2014, accessed December 25, 2014 .