Greenwood Publishing Group

ABC-Clio/Greenwood
Parent companyBloomsbury Publishing
StatusDefunct
Founded1967
FounderHarold Mason
SuccessorBloomsbury Academic
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationSanta Barbara, California
DistributionWorldwide
Nonfiction topicsReference works; scholarly and general interest; library and teaching materials
ImprintsGreenwood Press, Greenwood World Publishing, Heinemann USA (1990s to 2008), Libraries Unlimited, Praeger Publishers
Official websitewww.abc-clio.com Edit this at Wikidata

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), was an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which was part of ABC-Clio. Since 2021, ABC-Clio and its suite of imprints, including GPG, are collectively imprints of British publishing house Bloomsbury Publishing. The Greenwood name stopped being used for new books in 2023.[1]

Established in 1967 as Greenwood Press, Inc. and based in Westport, Connecticut,[2] GPG publishes reference works under its Greenwood Press imprint, and scholarly, professional, and general interest books under its related imprint, Praeger Publishers (/ˈprɡər/). Also part of GPG is Libraries Unlimited, which publishes professional works for librarians and teachers.[3]

  1. ^ https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/discover/bloomsbury-academic/abc-clio/useful-information-for-abc-clio-authors/
  2. ^ "Company Overview of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc". Businessweek. Archived from the original on October 9, 2012. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
  3. ^ "About us: Greenwood publishing company profile". Greenwood Publishing Group. Archived from the original on May 1, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2009.