Morgan Kaufmann Acquired by Harcourt General

Posted on June 25, 1998

Harcourt General, Inc. announced that it has acquired privately held Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, a leading publisher of computer science books for the professional and college markets. Harcourt General is a global provider of educational materials and services through its publishing subsidiary, Harcourt Brace & Company.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Morgan Kaufmann was founded in 1984 and has annualized revenues in excess of $7 million. It features a library of more than 100 reference books and textbooks focusing on computer science, engineering, and information technology in such fields as databases, computer graphics, and computer networking. Among its bestsellers are some of the most widely read books in computer science including John Hennessy and David Patterson's Computer Architecture, second edition and Computer Organization, second edition and Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie's Computer Networks.

Morgan Kaufmann will join Harcourt Brace's subsidiary, Academic Press, an international publisher of books and journals in the life, physical and social sciences. Morgan Kaufmann's editorial, production and marketing staff will continue with the company at its current San Francisco location and will continue to publish under the Morgan Kaufmann imprint. Academic Press' computer publishing imprint, Academic Press Professional, will combine with Morgan Kaufmann into one business unit under the management of Michael B. Morgan, Co-founder and President of Morgan Kaufmann, who will also become a Vice President of Academic Press. Academic Press Professional's staff will continue to publish from its current location in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.