10 Facts About Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers.

Since 1999, Macmillan Publishers has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group with offices in 41 countries worldwide and operations in more than thirty others.

Macmillan Publishers was founded in London in 1843 by Daniel and Alexander MacMillan, two brothers from the Isle of Arran, Scotland.

Macmillan Publishers re-entered the American market in 1954 under the name St Martin's Press.

Macmillan Publishers had been with the family firm as a junior partner from 1920 to 1940, and from 1945 to 1951 while he was in the opposition in Parliament.

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Pan Macmillan Publishers purchased Kingfisher, a British children's publisher, from Houghton Mifflin in October 2007.

In 2010, Macmillan Publishers Education submitted to an investigation on grounds of fraudulent practices.

The Macmillan Publishers division admitted to bribery in an attempt to secure a contract for an education project in southern Sudan.

In 2012, parent company Holtzbrinck reorganized; Macmillan Publishers's consumer publishing operations were now led by John Turner Sargent from New York City.

In November 2019, Macmillan Publishers announced that libraries would be able to buy only one copy of e-books for the first eight weeks after publication, in an effort to boost sales by creating long waits for borrowers at large library systems.