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This article focuses on Crowell Collier which later merged with Macmillan and so there are links to Macmillan's pages. Jaldous1 (talk) 20:41, 30 April 2016 (UTC) Needs infobox for business and some graphics. Jaldous1 (talk) 20:41, 30 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A few remarks

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I'm staying out of editing the article directly, since my father was an executive at the company in the 1960s and early 1970s.

  • "in 1963 complained... Nine years later in 1969" is obviously an error of some sort, I suspect just in the "Nine years".
  • The article really understates their international operations. In the early 1970s, they had about 700 employees outside of the U.S., with a particularly large operation in London.
    • Particularly important: the English This Way and English 900 series (neither of which has a Wikipedia article). I know there were several countries where one or the other of these were, for a time, part of national curricula for the schools.
  • Free Press (publisher) and Cassell (publisher) should certainly be linked.
  • If someone wants to give this a little more "flavor," two publishing stories that might be worth following up are the publication of Jonathan Livingston Seagull (a "sleeper" bestseller) and the translation of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia. Also possibly Inside the Third Reich.
  • I assume someone intends to continue this forward chronologically. Right now, it sort of cuts off in the 1970s. We haven't even gotten to Robert Maxwell!
- Jmabel | Talk 04:00, 30 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]