Little, Brown and Company

American publishing company founded in 1837
Organization publishing_house Q552959
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Little, Brown and Company

Summary

Little, Brown and Company is a publishing house[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of publishing_house entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (526 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Little, Brown and Company is in the country of United States[3].
  • Little, Brown and Company's instance of is recorded as publishing house[4].
  • Little, Brown and Company's instance of is recorded as book publisher[5].
  • Little, Brown and Company's founder is recorded as James Brown[6].
  • Little, Brown and Company's founder is recorded as Charles Coffin Little[7].
  • Little, Brown and Company's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[8].
  • Little, Brown and Company's child organization or unit is recorded as Constable & Robinson[9].
  • Little, Brown and Company's Commons category is recorded as Little, Brown and Company[10].
  • 1837 marks the founding of Little, Brown and Company[11].
  • Little, Brown and Company's parent organization or unit is recorded as Hachette Book Group[12].
  • Little, Brown and Company's official website is recorded as http://www.littlebrown.com/[13].
  • Little, Brown and Company's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Little, Brown'}[14].
  • Little, Brown and Company's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher[15].
  • Little, Brown and Company's number of viewers/listeners is recorded as {'amount': '+2409669'}[16].
  • Little, Brown and Company's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+497533'}[17].
  • Little, Brown and Company's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+498952'}[18].
  • Little, Brown and Company's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+489521'}[19].
  • Little, Brown and Company's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+481081'}[20].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Publisher[21]

  • Began / founded: 1837[22]

  • MusicBrainz ID: b1ca5cff-692c-42e7-aa25-6b95d855fd22[23]

Body

Founding

Founders include James Brown[6] and Charles Coffin Little[7]. 1837 marks the founding of Little, Brown and Company[11].

Identity

Little, Brown and Company's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Little, Brown'}[14].

Operations

Little, Brown and Company's headquarters location is recorded as New York City[8]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as Hachette Book Group[12]. Its child organization or unit is recorded as Constable & Robinson[9].

Why It Matters

Little, Brown and Company ranks in the top 3% of publishing_house entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (526 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . littlebrown.co.uk. littlebrown.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . hachettebookgroup.com. hachettebookgroup.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [21] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [22] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [23] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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