Bedford/St. Martin's

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Bedford/St. Martin's
Parent companyMacmillan Publishers
StatusActive
Founded1981
FounderCharles Christensen and Joan Feinberg
Country of originU.S.
Headquarters locationBoston and New York City
Publication typesTextbooks
Fiction genreshumanities
Official websitewww.bedfordstmartins.com

Bedford/St. Martin's is an American publishing company specializing in humanities college textbooks. Bedford/St. Martin's is part of the Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishing group owned by the Macmillan Publishers, which is in turn owned by the Stuttgart-based Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Its offices are in Boston and New York City.


History[edit]

The company was founded in 1981 by Charles Christensen and Joan Feinberg as Bedford Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press.

Among others works, Bedford/St. Martin's has published The Bedford Handbook and A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker, Patterns for College Writing, The Bedford Reader, The American Promise, Ways of the World and Writer's Help.

In 2013, Bedford/St. Martin's made a deal with Coursera to offer instructional materials.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Anderson, Nick (8 May 2013). "Coursera to offer students free online textbooks, with conditions". The Washington Post. Retrieved 9 December 2020.

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