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- From: macgregor@master.lds-az.loral.com (Mac Macgregor)
- Newsgroups: misc.education,misc.books.technical
- Subject: Demise of Textbook Publishers (Repost)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.153713.16905@lds-az.loral.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 15:37:13 GMT
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- I posted this a week ago, but my link to the net went down, and
- I don't know if I got any responses!
-
- Over the past decade, I have dealt with, reviewed, adopted, considered
- adopting, etc. etc. a variety of Computer Survey/Programming/
- Systems Analysis textbooks for my Community College courses.
-
- Apparently there have been a lot of mergers and acquisitions
- in recent years & it's left me confused as to who has survived.
- I would appreciate it if any netters out there could shed some
- light on who is still active in the field, who owns who, and
- why A survived but B didn't. Needless to say, I consider this
- to be an unfortunate trend (i.e. the "little fish" publishers
- being eaten by the "big fish" publishers), but maybe I'm just
- not getting with the global competition ticket ...
-
- Here's the list of publishers I'm aware of, and the location
- of their College Text operations:
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- Allyn & Bacon Inc. - NJ
- Boyd & Fraser Pub. Co. - MA
- Wm. C. Brown Co. Pub. - IA
- Business Publications Inc. - TX
- Brooks/Cole Pub. Co. - CA
- Bell & Howell - OH
- CBS College Publishing - CA:
- Dryden
- Holt, Rinehart, Winston
- Saunders College
- Computer Science Press - MD
- Dilithium Press - OR
- Dellen Pub. Co. - CA
- Harper & Row - CA
- Houghton Mifflin - CA
- R. D. Irwin Inc. Publishing - IL
- Kent - ?
- Chas. E. Merrill - OH
- Mitchel Publishing
- McGraw-Hill Pub. Co. - NY:
- Gregg Division
- Mac<illan Pub. Co. - NY
- Mayfield Pub. Co. - CA
- Prentice-Hall Pub. - NJ
- PWS Publishers - MA
- South-Western Pub. Co. - CA
- Sanders Pub. - NH
- Science Research Associates - IL
- Van Nostrand Rinehart - KT
- John Wiley & Sons Inc. - NY
- West Publishing Co. -MN
- Wadsworth Pub. - CA
- Yourdon Press - NY
-
- Thanks in advance,
- Mac
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- Mac MacGregor (602) 925-7112
- macgregor@master.lds-az.loral.com
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