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Robert Maxwell is widely alleged to have acted as a commercial conduit for a doctored version of the PROMIS case‑management software — selling or facilitating distribution of an Israeli‑modified “Enha...
Reporting and commentary allege Robert Maxwell used his ownership of major publishing houses to influence schoolbook content, but contemporary fact-checking and publisher statements find that he inser...
Robert Maxwell’s involvement in the textbook and academic-publishing world centered on the acquisition and expansion of Macmillan and Pergamon, giving him control of major educational and scientific i...
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...
Allegations that Robert Maxwell helped distribute a doctored, back‑doored version of the PROMIS case‑management software — enabling widespread espionage tied to Israeli intelligence — are repeated acr...
Robert Maxwell was a Czechoslovak‑born British publisher, media proprietor and former Member of Parliament who built a large international publishing empire (Pergamon, Mirror Group, Macmillan) and die...
Robert Maxwell’s expansion in the 1980s turned Pergamon and related holdings into a major presence in academic, professional and school publishing, culminating in large U.S. acquisitions such as Macmi...
PROMIS began as a U.S. Department of Justice case‑management program developed by the private firm Inslaw and became the center of a long, tangled dispute—officially litigated as a theft and later spu...
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’s death in November 1991 precipitated the rapid unravelling of a publishing empire built on opaque holdings, aggressive borrowing and, as investigators later found, large-scale misappro...
PROMIS was a case‑management program developed by Inslaw that became the center of a sprawling, decades‑long controversy alleging that a modified, “bugged” version was covertly distributed and used fo...
Reporting and commentary in the provided sources document a long-standing critique that Robert Maxwell and his Pergamon/associated companies helped commercialize academic publishing and shaped peer re...
There is clear evidence Robert Maxwell owned and controlled major textbook publishers in the 1980s and entered a formal U.S. joint-venture in 1989 that made his group the nation’s second-largest textb...