Educational publishers ABC-CLIO, UK, and Houghton Mifflin Company, US, have announced an agreement wherein ABC-CLIO obtains a perpetual licence to use the imprints and publish the titles of Houghton's Greenwood Publishing Group. The agreement covers Greenwood Press, Praeger Publishers, Praeger Security International and Libraries Unlimited. In addition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will transfer certain assets, including copyrights, contracts and inventory, of Greenwood Publishing Group to ABC-CLIO. This agreement is effective immediately.
The deal is seen to combine ABC-CLIO's five decades as a publisher of print and electronic reference products with Greenwood Publishing Group's portfolio. The portfolio includes more than 18,000 reference titles, academic and general interest books, texts, books for librarians and other professionals and electronic resources.
Greenwood Press publishes reference books across the middle and high school and college and university curriculum as well as on general-interest topics. Praeger Publishers is Greenwood's line of scholarly and professional books in the social sciences and humanities, with emphasis on modern history, military studies, psychology, business, current events and social issues, international affairs, politics, visual and performing arts and literature.
Praeger Security International publishes material on international security, including defence and foreign policy, strategy, regional security, military history and terrorism. Libraries Unlimited is a publisher of professional materials for librarians, media specialists and teachers. The agreement does not include any imprints or titles of Heinemann USA.
