Macmillan Publishers

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Macmillan Publishers

Summary

Macmillan Publishers is a publishing house[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of publishing_house entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,394 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Macmillan Publishers was a member of Publishers Association Limited[3].
  • Macmillan Publishers is in the country of United Kingdom[4].
  • Macmillan Publishers's instance of is recorded as publishing house[5].
  • Macmillan Publishers's instance of is recorded as academic publisher[6].
  • Macmillan Publishers's founder is recorded as Daniel Macmillan[7].
  • Macmillan Publishers's founder is recorded as Alexander Macmillan[8].
  • Macmillan Publishers's headquarters location is recorded as London[9].
  • Macmillan Publishers's has organizational division is recorded as Macmillan Audio[10].
  • Macmillan Publishers's child organization or unit is recorded as St. Martin's Press[11].
  • Macmillan Publishers's child organization or unit is recorded as Palgrave Macmillan[12].
  • Macmillan Publishers's child organization or unit is recorded as Flatiron Books[13].
  • Macmillan Publishers's child organization or unit is recorded as Tor Publishing Group[14].
  • Macmillan Publishers's Commons category is recorded as Macmillan Publishers Ltd.[15].
  • Macmillan Publishers's industry is recorded as publishing[16].
  • Macmillan Publishers's archives at is recorded as British Library[17].
  • Macmillan Publishers's archives at is recorded as William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections[18].
  • 1843 marks the founding of Macmillan Publishers[19].
  • Macmillan Publishers's parent organization or unit is recorded as Holtzbrinck Publishing Group[20].
  • Macmillan Publishers's official website is recorded as https://us.macmillan.com[21].
  • Macmillan Publishers's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Macmillan Publishers books[22].
  • Macmillan Publishers's product or material produced is recorded as software[23].
  • Macmillan Publishers's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[24].
  • Macmillan Publishers's replaced by is recorded as Wiley[25].
  • Macmillan Publishers's legal form is recorded as private company limited by shares[26].
  • Macmillan Publishers's different from is recorded as Macmillan Inc.[27].

Product Details

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  • Type: Publisher[28]

  • Country: GB[29]

  • Began / founded: 1843[30]

  • MusicBrainz ID: fb71ff1a-dc73-4c90-b994-ce3c8206edb5[31]

Body

Founding

Founders include Daniel Macmillan[7] and Alexander Macmillan[8]. 1843 marks the founding of Macmillan Publishers[19].

Operations

Macmillan Publishers's headquarters location is recorded as London[9]. Its parent organization or unit is recorded as Holtzbrinck Publishing Group[20]. Subsidiaries include St. Martin's Press[11], a book publisher[32], in United States[33], founded in 1952[34], headquartered in New York City[35]; Palgrave Macmillan[12], a publishing house[36], in United Kingdom[37], founded in 2000[38], headquartered in Basingstoke[39]; Flatiron Books[13]; and Tor Publishing Group[14], a book publisher[40], in United States[41], founded in 1980[42], headquartered in Flatiron Building[43].

Industry

Macmillan Publishers's industry is recorded as publishing[16].

Ownership

Macmillan Publishers's product or material produced is recorded as software[23].

Why It Matters

Macmillan Publishers ranks in the top 1% of publishing_house entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,394 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] It is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  11. [14] . wikidata.org.
  12. [15] . wikidata.org.
  13. [16] . wikidata.org.
  14. [3] . publishers.org.uk. Retrieved . publishers.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . searcharchives.bl.uk. Retrieved . searcharchives.bl.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
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  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . National Software Reference Library. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [30] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [31] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [38] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [41] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [42] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [44] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [45] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 27d ago · Yirba · 2026-05-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category Category:Macmillan Publishers books
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    Industry publishing
    Legal form private company limited by shares
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