Doubleday (publisher)

Doubleday is one of the largest publishing houses in the world. His story was a century marked by the Doubleday family until it was acquired by Bertelsmann AG in 1986.

Founded in 1897 by the publisher Frank Nelson Doubleday and Samuel McClure as Doubleday & McClure Company. " Bob, Son of Battle" by Alfred olivant was the first book published in 1898, which was followed in the same year Rudyard Kipling's "The Day 's Work " and 1899 " McTeague " by Frank Norris.

Doubleday had visited Kipling on November 30, 1895 for the first time, and while Doubleday and McClure soon went their separate ways, remained Kipling, one of the most sought after English authors of his time to get the publishing house. "The Day 's Work " was the first major success of the house.

While working with McClure was dissolved on December 31, 1899, should from 1 January 1900, the merger with Walter Hines Page, a social reformer and editor of "The Atlantic Monthly " for the formation of the new publishing house " Doubleday, Page and Company " and lead to sustained success. 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 were published.

1921 acquired Doubleday control to William Heinemann, a British publishing house, 1927, George H. Doran Company, so that the name of the publisher in " Doubleday, Doran and Company was renamed" - and at this time so that was the largest publisher of the English-speaking world. As of 1946, the company named " Doubleday and Company ".

1980 bought the company under its President Nelson Doubleday, Jr., grandson of the founder, publisher, the New York Mets for 21.1 million U.S. dollars; 1986 bought Doubleday and Fred Wilpon Jr. the publishing house the Mets for 100 million U.S. dollars, a record price at that time, again. On 26 September 1986 Nelson Doubleday Jr. sold the publishing house for kolportierte 475 million U.S. dollars to the Bertelsmann AG, its stake in the Mets, incidentally 2002 Wilpon.

Since 1998 acts Random House (owned by Bertelsmann AG) as the holding company for all the Bertelsmann publishing and thus also for Doubleday.

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  • Book publishing (United States)
  • Bertelsmann
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