Springer Science+Business Media or Springer (German pronunciation: [ˈʃpʁɪŋɐ]) is a worldwide publishing company focusing on books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in STM (science, technical and medical publishing). Book publications include major reference works, textbooks, monographs and book series; more than 33,000 titles are available as e-books in 13 subject collections. Within STM, Springer is the largest book publisher, and second-large...
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Springer Science+Business Media or Springer (German pronunciation: [ˈʃpʁɪŋɐ]) is a worldwide publishing company focusing on books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in STM (science, technical and medical publishing). Book publications include major reference works, textbooks, monographs and book series; more than 33,000 titles are available as e-books in 13 subject collections. Within STM, Springer is the largest book publisher, and second-largest journal publisher worldwide (the largest being Elsevier), with over 60 publishing houses, 1,900 journals, 5,500 new books published each year, sales of 924 million euro (in 2006) and 5,000 employees. Springer has major offices in Berlin, Heidelberg, Dordrecht (Netherlands) and New York.
Julius Springer founded Springer-Verlag in Berlin in 1842. The academic publishing company BertelsmannSpringer was formed after Bertelsmann bought a majority stake in Springer-Verlag in 1999. British investment groups Cinven and Candover bought...
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