Educational Publishers List
Even a common man knows how a book is made? First a writer thinks and develops a storyline and improves it checking every detail. But what about the beautiful handwriting, the colorful covers and the typical smell that a new book has. Where does all that come from? Who does that? Today we are about to find out who are responsible for all this. We are going to make an educational publishers list. These are some of the best names in the business who publish books which we all see at major book stores and at various malls.
There are some unfortunate people in this world who find difficulty to get access to books. They may suffer from dyslexia, visual impairment or some motor difficulties. However, new technologies help such people get access to books. Librarians and publishers work day and night to offer digital copies of books to disabled users, so that they can also enjoy the benefits of reading. So let's have a look at some of the best educational publishers and publishing companies.
List of Educational Publishers
Here is list that has names of some world-renowned educational publishers from all around the globe. Some of these names are a century old and some are pretty new.
Macmillan
1 on the esteemed educational publishers list is the name Macmillan. Founded in 1843 by Daniel and Alexander Macmillan, two Scottish brothers from the Isle of Arran. It was founded in the UK but over the years they have become one of the most famous publishing houses in the world. With their proud heritage and spectacular history, they apply the best modern methods of production and distribution.
Cambridge University Press
It is the oldest printing and publishing house in the world. It was founded on a royal charter by Henry VIII in 1534. Since then, it has operated as a printer and publisher since the first press book release in 1584. Now Cambridge University press is recognized as one of the best educational publishers in the world, publishing over 2000 books and more than 150 journals a year.
Andromeda
Andromeda is one of the world's leading publishers. Located in the UK, with a proven record of excellence, loyalty and producing high quality books for adults and children in English and foreign languages. Andromeda has always been a favorite child with critics and has won many awards over the past 25 years.
Deberett's Limited
For the past 200 years, Deberett's Limited has recorded the lives of Britain's most influential people. It still continues to be Britain's most respected and most recognized authority on the British way of life. Considered as the best publisher of biographical reference books, Deberett's Limited has recorded the lives of some 100,000 people. These people have played an important part in shaping up our world's history and will continue to do so.
H.W. Wilson
Founded in 1898 and in the Bronx since 1917, H.W. Wilson is a leading publisher of reference materials and databases. The company's indexing and abstracting publications are renowned worldwide. It introduced "The Readers Guide to Political Literature" in 1901, and this guide quickly became a classic in the field of literature, and is still used today.
Library of Congress
Any fine educational publishers list is incomplete without the Library of Congress. It's America's oldest Federal cultural institution. The Library of Congress is filled with a collection of more than 121 million items, of which most of them are turned in books and two-thirds are in media. This prestigious collection includes the largest map, film and television collections in the world. In addition to helping the Congress in research, the Library of Congress also serves the American population through its popular website.
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press originated in 1905, and since then it has close connections, both formal and informal with Princeton University. It's an independent publisher which broadcasts scholarships through print and digital media for both students within Princeton and outside. The press publishes works of the greatest minds in the field of academics, humanity, social science and natural causes.
World's Largest Publishers
The names in the below given list of educational publishers are the best of the lot. Over the years they have shown a profound change in the trend of book publishing.
- Pearson, UK
- Reed Elsevier, UK/US
- ThomsonReuters, Canada
- Wolters Kluver, NL
- McGraw-Hill Education, US
- Wiley, US
- Informa, UK
- Harper Collins, US/UK
- Scholastic, US
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, US/Cayman Islands
