Pearson Education
Pearson Education is a British, international publisher mainly for school and university textbooks and the largest publisher in the world in this field. He is part of the Pearson media group (Pearson PLC). Since 2011 the publisher is called Pearson and consists of the subgroups Pearson International and Pearson North America .
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Pearson International is headquartered in London. The group is active in over 70 countries and has one main market in the USA, where its headquarters (Pearson North America) are in New York.
In 2014 it was the largest school and textbook publisher in the world. They also continuously offer electronic versions of their products and see themselves as a global education company. They make around 60% of their sales in North America (2014). Their omnipresence on the American education market was also increasingly the subject of criticism.
As of 2014, they have been organized into three global divisions (School, Higher Education, Professional) and three regional groups (North America, Growth and Core, corresponding to a planned growth focus in developing countries). Revenues (reported for the parent company excluding Financial Times Group and Penguin) were £ 5.18 billion in 2013 (with a significant slump following the merger of Penguin and Random House) and they have 40,000 employees in 80 countries.
Pearson Education was founded in 1998 when Pearson reorganized its Addison-Wesley-Longman textbooks division following the acquisition of Simon & Schuster's textbooks division .
They include Addison-Wesley (acquired in 1988), Prentice Hall (which previously belonged to Simon & Schuster), Benjamin-Cummings (which belonged to Addison-Wesley), Markt & Technik , Pearson Longman, SAMS Publishing, Heinemann, Stark Verlag and other imprints.
The parent company Pearson originally owned the Financial Times and the Penguin publishing group (in which Pearson still has large shares through Penguin Random House ). In 1968 they took over the long-established London book publisher Longman (founded in 1724), which they use today for English textbooks (ELT, English Language Teaching).
Pearson study
The school and university textbooks are published in the Pearson Studies division . A special feature for the university sector is the free transmission of textbooks to subject-related professors and lecturers .
In the German-speaking area this applies to a. the following textbook series for university studies:
These textbooks contain around 900 to 1100 pages, depending on the subject. They are suitable on the one hand for self-study (especially the first third of the books), but also for further studies and additionally contain examples for university courses.