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| Type | division of Random House |
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| Founded | 1897 |
| Industry | Publishing |
| Products | Publisher of print and electronic products |
| Revenue | N/A |
| Website | www.doubleday.com |
The Doubleday Publishing Group is a publishing company.
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It was founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 by Frank Nelson Doubleday [1], who had formed a partnership with magazine publisher Samuel McClure. One of their first bestsellers was The Day's Work by Rudyard Kipling. Other authors published by the company in its early years include W. Somerset Maugham and Joseph Conrad. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was later a vice-president of the company.
In 1900, the company became Doubleday, Page & Company when Walter Hines Page joined as a new partner. In 1922, the founder's son, Nelson Doubleday, joined the firm.
In 1927, Doubleday merged with the George H. Doran Company, creating Doubleday, Doran, the largest publishing business in the English-speaking world. In 1946, the company became Doubleday and Company and John Sargent became president and CEO during that time, with his son as a business associate in the publishing division.[2]
In the late 1990s, Doubleday gained a younger audience after being mentioned several times in the sitcom, Seinfeld, as the company of which Elaine Benes wishes to be employed.
Doubleday was sold to Bertelsmann in 1986. In 1988 it became part of the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, which in turn became a division of Random House in 1998.
In late 2008 and early 2009, the Doubleday imprint was merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group[3].
The following are imprints that exist or have existed under Doubleday:
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