22-482: Eden Collinsworth is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction, whose career has been in media and international business. Collinsworth began her career in book publishing at Doubleday & Company. She joined Arbor House Book Publishing Company in 1976, and was named its president and publisher in 1983. Collinsworth founded Buzz, Inc. In October 1990, with two partners, Allan Mayer , and Susan Gates, Collinsworth, as president and CEO, launched Buzz Magazine ,
44-536: A Beijing-based consulting company, which specializes in intercultural communication. She is the author of a book on the subject published by Xiron in China. This article about an American businessperson born in the 1950s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Doubleday (publisher) Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897. By 1947, it
66-519: A Los Angeles-based monthly, city magazine . From 1999 to 2008, Collinsworth was vice president of The Hearst Corporation and its director of cross media business development responsible for identifying business opportunities across all Hearst divisions, including magazines, newspapers, cable, syndication, and broadcast. In 2008, Collinsworth became vice president, COO and chief of staff of The EastWest Institute, an international think tank. In 2011, Collinsworth launched Collinsworth & Associates,
88-552: A separate group. In 1996, Doubleday founded the Christian publisher WaterBrook Press. WaterBrook acquired Harold Shaw Publishers in 2000 and Multnomah Publishers in 2006. In late 2008 and early 2009, Doubleday imprint merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. In October 2008, Doubleday laid off about 10% of its staff (16 people) across all departments. That December,
110-409: A vice-president of the company. The partnership ended in 1900. McClure and John Sanborn Phillips , the co-founder of his magazine, formed McClure, Phillips and Company. Doubleday and Walter Hines Page formed Doubleday, Page & Company . The bestselling novels of Thomas Dixon Jr. , including The Leopard's Spots , 1902 and The Clansman , 1905, "changed a struggling publishing venture into
132-650: The World War I war effort, the company was the major source for Allied literature, publishing such things as the British Government's British War Aims, Statement by the Right Honourable David Lloyd George as well as Lloyd George's book, The Great Crusade . Doran published a number of other books on the war including two by James W. Gerard , the American Ambassador to Germany. Among
154-607: The 1970s and 1980s, Doubleday sold the broadcasting division in 1986. Nelson Doubleday Jr. succeeded John Sargent as president and CEO from 1978 to 1985. In 1976, Doubleday bought paperback publisher Dell Publishing . In 1980, the company bought the New York Mets baseball team. The Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series in 1986 in a seven-game contest. In 1981, Doubleday promoted James R. McLaughlin to
176-514: The Broadway, Doubleday Business, Doubleday Religion, and WaterBrook Multnomah divisions were moved to Crown Publishing Group , a subsidiary of Random House in Manhattan . The following are imprints that exist or have existed under Doubleday: George H. Doran Company George H. Doran Company (1908–1927) was an American book publishing company established by George Henry Doran. He organized
198-662: The George H. Doran Company included the First Novel Library, Hutchinson’s Library of Standard Lives, the Murray Hill Library and Pocket Books. George H. Doran Company merged with Doubleday, Page & Company in 1927, making Doubleday, Doran the largest publishing business in the English-speaking world. The Doran name disappeared in 1946 when the company became known simply as Doubleday & Company. George H. Doran
220-529: The Mets to Wilpon for $ 135 million after a feud over the monetary value of the team. In 1988, portions of the firm became part of the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, which in turn became a division of Random House in 1998. Doubleday was combined in a group with Broadway Books , Anchor Books was combined with Vintage Books as a division of Knopf , while Bantam and Dell became
242-574: The UK and the Netherlands. Nelson Doubleday Jr. sold the publishing company to Bertelsmann in 1986 for a reported $ 475 million, with James R. McLaughlin resigning on December 17, 1986. After the purchase, Bertelsmann sold Laidlaw to Macmillan Inc. The sale of Doubleday to Bertelsmann did not include the Mets, which Nelson Doubleday and minority owner Fred Wilpon had purchased from Doubleday & Company for $ 85 million. In 2002 , Doubleday sold his stake in
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#1733107101338264-582: The company in Toronto and moved it to New York City on February 22, 1908. The firm prospered, becoming one of the major publishing houses in the United States. The firm published in many genres, from major literary works to "working-class" novels, how to play golf books, religious books, romances, children and juvenile adventure fiction, and poetry. It was the American publisher of many British authors and as part of
286-649: The empire that Doubleday was to become". At the same time, Doubleday helped Dixon launch his writing career. Page and Dixon were both from North Carolina and had known each other in Raleigh, North Carolina . In 1910, Doubleday, Page & Co. moved its operations, which included a train station, to Garden City, New York , on Long Island . The company purchased much of the land on the east side of Franklin Avenue, and estate homes were built for many of its executives on Fourth Street. Co-founder and Garden City resident Walter Hines Page
308-466: The first U.S. newspaper syndicate in 1884 ( McClure Syndicate ) and the monthly McClure's Magazine in 1893. One of their first bestsellers was The Day's Work by Rudyard Kipling , a short story collection that Macmillan published in Britain late in 1898. Other authors published by the company in its early years include W. Somerset Maugham and Joseph Conrad . Theodore Roosevelt Jr. later served as
330-477: The notable authors published by the George H. Doran Company were Joyce Kilmer , P. G. Wodehouse , Arnold Bennett , Arnold J. Toynbee , Theodore Roosevelt , Arthur Conan Doyle , O. Henry , Frank L. Packard , James J. Montague , Edwin Lefèvre , Virginia Woolf , Frank Harris , H.G. Wells , W. Somerset Maugham , Sinclair Lewis , H.L. Mencken , John Dos Passos and Margery Williams . Book series published by
352-789: The presidency of Dell Publishing. Sales slowed in the early 1980s and earnings fell precipitously. Doubleday Jr., brought James McLaughlin over (from subsidiary Dell) to help streamline and downsize. McLaughlin went on to succeed Doubleday Jr., as president and CEO, with Doubleday Jr., becoming chairman of the board. By 1986, the firm was a fully integrated international communications company, doing trade publishing, mass-market paperback publishing, book clubs, and book manufacturing, together with ventures in broadcasting and advertising. The company had offices in London and Paris and wholly owned subsidiaries in Canada , Australia, and New Zealand, with joint ventures in
374-568: The thirties. In 1944, Doubleday, Doran acquired the Philadelphia medical publisher Blakiston. In 1946, the company became Doubleday and Company . Nelson Doubleday resigned as president, but continued as chairman of the board until his death on January 11, 1949. Douglas Black took over as president from 1946 to 1963. His tenure attracted numerous public figures to the publishing company, including Dwight D. Eisenhower , Harry S. Truman , Douglas MacArthur , Robert Taft , and André Malraux . He
396-557: Was a strong opponent of censorship and felt that it was his responsibility to the American public to publish controversial titles. Black also expanded Doubleday's publishing program by opening two new printing plants; creating a new line of quality paperbacks, under the imprint Anchor Books; founding mail-order subscription book clubs in its book club division; opening 30 new retail stores in 25 cities; and opening new editorial offices in San Francisco, London, and Paris. By 1947, Doubleday
418-449: Was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1869. He moved frequently from New York City to London, England during his publishing career, and was well acquainted with most of the writers he published. In 1935, George Doran wrote Chronicles of Barabbas 1884–1934 , that told about the publishing business and its personalities. It was republished in 1952 with Further Chronicles and Comment added to
440-482: Was named Ambassador to Great Britain in 1916. In 1922, the company founded its juvenile department, the second in the nation, with May Massee as head. The founder's son Nelson Doubleday joined the firm in the same year. In 1927, Doubleday, Page merged with the George H. Doran Company , creating Doubleday, Doran , then the largest publishing business in the English-speaking world. Doubleday Canada Limited launches in
462-619: Was the largest book publisher in the United States. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed them through its own stores. In 2009, Doubleday merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group , which, as of 2018, is part of Penguin Random House . The firm was founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 by Frank Nelson Doubleday in partnership with Samuel Sidney McClure . McClure had founded
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#1733107101338484-502: Was the largest publisher in the United States, with annual sales of more than 30 million books. In 1954, Doubleday sold Blakiston to McGraw-Hill . Doubleday's son-in-law John Sargent was president and CEO from 1963 to 1978. In 1964, Doubleday acquired the educational publisher Laidlaw. In 1967, the company purchased the Dallas -based Trigg-Vaughn group of radio and TV stations to create Doubleday Broadcasting. After expanding during
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