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Doubleday - Definition and Overview

Doubleday is one of the largest book publishing companies in the world.

It was founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 by Frank Nelson Doubleday who had formed a partnership with magazine publisher Samuel McClure. One of their first bestsellers was The Day's Work by Rudyard Kipling. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was later a vice-president of the company.

Doubleday was sold to Bertelsmann AG in 1986. In 1988 it became part of the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, which in turn became a division of Random House in 1998.

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Example Usage of Doubleday

iClassics: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates - by Tom Robbins - Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio. http://tinyurl.com/ygfvj7r
morethangold: The Rapture, by Liz Jensen, Doubleday Canada, 304 pages, $29.95: Globe and Mail The girl's father, Leonard .. http://bit.ly/8qSoSk
incAmazonCom: The Plymouth Thanksgiving, A Doubleday Reinforced Library Eddition (Hardcover) newly tagged "thanksgiving" http://ff.im/-c0Xoj
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