Parent company | Pearson Education |
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Founded | 1942 |
Founder | Lew Addison Cummings, Melbourne Wesley Cummings |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Boston |
Publication types | Textbooks |
Nonfiction topics | Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, and Statistics |
Official website |
www www informit.com (professional) |
AddisonâWesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an imprint of Pearson plc, a global publishing and education company. In addition to publishing books, AddisonâWesley also distributes its technical titles through the O'Reilly Online Learning e-reference service. AddisonâWesley's majority of sales derive from the United States (55%) and Europe (22%). [1]
The AddisonâWesley Professional Imprint produces content including books, eBooks, and video for the professional IT worker including developers, programmers, managers, system administrators. Classic titles include The Art of Computer Programming, The C++ Programming Language, The Mythical Man-Month, and Design Patterns.
Lew Addison Cummings and Melbourne Wesley Cummings founded AddisonâWesley in 1942, with the first book published by AddisonâWesley being Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Francis Weston Sears' Mechanics.
Its first computer book was Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill. In 1977, AddisonâWesley acquired W. A. Benjamin Company, and merged it with the Cummings division of the company to form Benjamin Cummings. It was purchased by the global publishing and education company Pearson PLC in 1988 [2] and became part of Addison Wesley Longman in 1994. The trade publishing division of AddisonâWesley was sold to Perseus Books Group in 1997, leaving AddisonâWesley as solely an educational publisher. [3] Pearson acquired the educational division of Simon & Schuster in 1998, and merged it with Addison Wesley Longman to form Pearson Education and subsequently rebranded to Pearson in 2011. Pearson moved the former Addison Wesley Longman offices from Reading, Massachusetts, to Boston in 2004. Its current executives hail from the original AddisonâWesley with a storied history of their own.
Parent company | Pearson Education |
---|---|
Founded | 1942 |
Founder | Lew Addison Cummings, Melbourne Wesley Cummings |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Boston |
Publication types | Textbooks |
Nonfiction topics | Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Mathematics, and Statistics |
Official website |
www www informit.com (professional) |
AddisonâWesley is an American publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an imprint of Pearson plc, a global publishing and education company. In addition to publishing books, AddisonâWesley also distributes its technical titles through the O'Reilly Online Learning e-reference service. AddisonâWesley's majority of sales derive from the United States (55%) and Europe (22%). [1]
The AddisonâWesley Professional Imprint produces content including books, eBooks, and video for the professional IT worker including developers, programmers, managers, system administrators. Classic titles include The Art of Computer Programming, The C++ Programming Language, The Mythical Man-Month, and Design Patterns.
Lew Addison Cummings and Melbourne Wesley Cummings founded AddisonâWesley in 1942, with the first book published by AddisonâWesley being Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Francis Weston Sears' Mechanics.
Its first computer book was Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill. In 1977, AddisonâWesley acquired W. A. Benjamin Company, and merged it with the Cummings division of the company to form Benjamin Cummings. It was purchased by the global publishing and education company Pearson PLC in 1988 [2] and became part of Addison Wesley Longman in 1994. The trade publishing division of AddisonâWesley was sold to Perseus Books Group in 1997, leaving AddisonâWesley as solely an educational publisher. [3] Pearson acquired the educational division of Simon & Schuster in 1998, and merged it with Addison Wesley Longman to form Pearson Education and subsequently rebranded to Pearson in 2011. Pearson moved the former Addison Wesley Longman offices from Reading, Massachusetts, to Boston in 2004. Its current executives hail from the original AddisonâWesley with a storied history of their own.