Macmillan Publishers - Definition

Macmillan Publishers Ltd is an international publishing company. It has offices in 41 countries world-wide (38 of these are publishing offices) but actually operates in over 70. The company is made up of over 50 different divisions and operates in 5 different areas of publishing:

• Education publishing including English language teaching (ELT)
• Academic publishing including reference
• Science, technological and medical publishing
• Fiction and non-fiction book publishing
• Publishing services including distribution and production

Macmillan was founded in 1843 by two Scottish brothers, Daniel and Alexander Macmillan; the company started off publishing Charles Kingsley (1855), Thomas Hughes (1859), Francis Turner Palgrave (1861), Christina Rossetti (1862), Matthew Arnold (1865) and Lewis Carroll (1865). Alfred Tennyson joined the list in 1884, Thomas Hardy in 1886 and Rudyard Kipling in 1890.

External Links

• http://www.macmillan.com/