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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 built his academic-publishing foothold by buying a small scientific house in 1951—three-quarters of Butterworth‑Springer—which he renamed Pergamon Press and expanded through aggressive ...
Robert Maxwell’s entry into U.S. educational publishing via major acquisitions and a 1989 joint venture with McGraw‑Hill created a that plausibly affected which textbooks circulated in schools, but th...
Robert Maxwell’s U.S. educational-publishing holdings clustered around two principal assets: Science Research Associates (SRA), which he bought from IBM and called “the centerpiece” of his U.S. educat...
Robert Maxwell built a U.S. education-publishing footprint by buying Macmillan Inc. in 1988 and acquiring Science Research Associates earlier, then merging Macmillan’s K–12 units with McGraw‑Hill in a...
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...
Declassifed government files and public court and regulatory records document ’s commercial dealings with American publishers—most notably his acquisition of and —but the sources provided do not conta...
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...
Robert Maxwell built a sprawling, international publishing and media empire that by the late 1980s and early 1990s encompassed newspapers, trade and academic publishers, directories, language schools,...
Robert Maxwell’s media empire in the 1980s and into the early 1990s comprised a mix of newspaper groups, academic and trade publishers, language‑instruction chains, directories and related information...