Hutchinson Heinemann
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Hutchinson Heinemann is a British publishing firm founded in 1887. It is currently an imprint which is ultimately owned by Bertelsmann, the German publishing conglomerate.
History
Hutchinson Heinemann began as Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd.,<ref>Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) {WorldCat Identities Template:Webarchive, worldcat.org. Retrieved on 11 September 2017.</ref> an English book publisher, founded in London in 1887 by Sir George Hutchinson and later run by his son, Walter Hutchinson (1887–1950). Hutchinson's published books and magazines such as The Lady's Realm, Adventure-story Magazine, Hutchinson's Magazine and Woman.<ref name=Ashley>Ashley, M. (2006). The Age of Storytellers. British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880–1950. London: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press.</ref>
In the 1920s, Walter Hutchinson published many of the "spook stories" of E. F. Benson in Hutchinson's Magazine and then in collections in a number of books. The company also first published Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger novels, five novels by mystery writer Harry Stephen Keeler, and short stories by Eden Phillpotts. In 1929, Walter Hutchinson stopped publishing magazines to concentrate on books.<ref name=Ashley/> In the 1930s, Hutchinson published H. G. Wells's The Bulpington of Blup as well as the first English translations of Vladimir Nabokov's Camera Obscura (translated by Winifred Roy with Nabokov credited as Vladimir Nabokoff-Sirin) in 1936 and Despair (translated by Nabokov himself) under its John Long marque of paperbacks.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1947, the company launched the Hutchinson University Library book series.<ref name="HUL">Hutchinson University Library – Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 22 October 2017.</ref>
Among notable, non-fiction books, in 1959, Hutchinson & Co. published the first English edition of Karl Popper's most famous work, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, first published as Logik der Forschung in 1934.
The company merged with Century Publishing in 1985 to form Century Hutchinson. The new company acquired the publishing firm Muller, Blond & White Ltd in 1987. Century Hutchinson was folded into the British Random House Group in 1989,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> briefly known as Random Century (1990–1992),<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Century became an imprint of Cornerstone Publishing,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> a publishing house of Penguin Random House UK,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> which is in turn a division of Penguin Random House, which itself, since 2013, was owned jointly by Bertelsmann and Pearson plc<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and since 2019, just by Bertelsmann.<ref>Adria Calatayud, "Pearson CEO to Retire and company will sell remaining Penguin Random House stake", MarketWatch. Retrieved 7 April 2020.</ref> In 2021, Penguin Random House merged William Heinemann, Hutchinson and Windmill into Hutchinson Heinemann.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Book series
- Chestnut Library<ref>Chestnut Library (Hutchinson's Books for Young People/Hutchinson) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 7 April 2020.</ref>
- Hutchinson's Booklover's Library<ref>Booklover's Library, seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 7 April 2020.</ref>
- Hutchinson Pocket Special
- Hutchinson's Pocket Guides
- Hutchinson's Pocket Library<ref>Hutchinson's Pocket Library, seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 7 April 2020.</ref>
- Hutchinson's Pocket Library: Non-Fiction<ref>Hutchinson Pocket Library Non Fiction, satiche.org.uk. Retrieved 14 August 2022.</ref>
- Hutchinson's Popular Pocket Library
- Hutchinson Science Series<ref>Hutchinson Science Library - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 14 August 2022.</ref>
- Hutchinson University Library<ref name="HUL" />
- Radius Books