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Robert Maxwell’s publishing empire in the 1980s and early 1990s included several imprints and companies that produced textbooks and school materials — most prominently Macmillan (U.S.) after Maxwell a...
Robert Maxwell’s U.S. textbook holdings centered on his 1988–89 acquisitions and deals: he bought Macmillan Inc. in 1988 for roughly $2.6 billion and acquired Science Research Associates (SRA) from IB...
Robert Maxwell’s U.S. textbook footprint in the late 1980s and early 1990s centered on his acquisition of Macmillan Inc. (which included sizable school and college operations) and targeted purchases c...
Robert Maxwell built a U.S. publishing foothold primarily through large acquisitions in the 1980s—notably buying Macmillan Inc. and the Official Airline Guides (OAG) after earlier expanding Pergamon a...
Robert Maxwell’s ownership shifted several U.S. textbook imprints into larger, consolidated corporate structures and prompted aggressive commercial strategies — notably the 1989 Macmillan/McGraw-Hill ...
’s string of purchases across newspapers, academic presses and trade publishers created both the inventory and the bargaining posture that reshaped s in the late 1980s, culminating in a high‑profile j...
Robert Maxwell’s push into the U.S. publishing market culminated in the high‑profile takeover of Macmillan Inc. in 1988, and was accompanied by a string of American assets that included Berlitz Intern...