Company:Berg Publishers
| Status | Defunct (2013) |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1983 |
| Founder | Marion Berghahn |
| Successor | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Oxford |
| Distribution | Macmillan Publishers (Except United States), Palgrave Macmillan (United States) |
| Publication types | Books, academic journals |
| Fiction genres | Academic books, journals |
Berg Publishers was an academic publishing company based in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England and Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It was founded in the United Kingdom in 1983 by Marion Berghahn.[1][2] Berg published monographs, textbooks, reference works, and academic journals. It focused on fashion, design, anthropology, history, and cultural studies.[3] Operations in providence began shortly after Berghahn's husband, historian Volker Berghahn, accepted a chair at Brown University in 1988.[2]
History
In 2003, Berg Publishers was bought from its owners by its managers Kathryn Earle and Sara Everett.[4] The original owner, Marion Berghahn, was forced out in 1994 and immediately founded Berghahn Books, a leading academic publisher in the fields of anthropology and social sciences.[5]
The Book Industry Communication (BIC), a trade standards group for electronic commerce and supply chain efficiency, awarded Berg its BIC Product Data Excellence Gold Award in 2007–2008[6] and its e4books project accredited Berg in 2008.[7] Berg won the Independent Publishers Guild's 2008 Publishing Technology E-Publishing Award for its collection of profitable digital strategies in March 2008.[8]
By March 2008, Berg had published thirteen journals.[9] In September 2008, Bloomsbury Publishing bought Berg Publishers for £3,000,000 (US$3,569,535).[10] Since 2013, all Berg titles have been published under the Bloomsbury name (under the imprint Bloomsbury Academic).
References
- ↑ "Berg Publishers: Local publisher set for great things". http://www.fduk.co.uk/case-study-berg.asp.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "History of Berghahn Books". https://www.berghahnbooks.com/about/our-history/.
- ↑ "About Berg". http://www.bergpublishers.com/AboutUs/tabid/530/Default.aspx.
- ↑ "Publishers bought for £2m". https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/business/news/3722746.publishers-bought-3m/.
- ↑ "List of Outstanding Titles - 2010". Choice Reviews Online. http://www.cro2.org/default.aspx?page=display_oat&year=2010.
- ↑ Earle, Kathryn (13 December 2006). "Social History Society places 'Cultural and Social History' with Berg". LIBLICENSE. http://liblicense.crl.edu/ListArchives/0612/msg00052.html.
- ↑ "Berg Publishers". http://www.bergpublishers.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx.
- ↑ Shine, Bridget (March 2008). "The Independent Publishing Awards 2008". Independent Publishers Guild. http://www.ipg.uk.com/cgi-bin/scribe?showinfo=pp126.
- ↑ "Society for Scholarly Publishing — Member News Releases". http://sspnet.org/News/Member_News_Releases/spage.aspx.
- ↑ Press release "Rebranding of Continuum, Berg and Bristol Classical Press". November 2012. http://www.bloomsbury.com/rebranding-continuum-berg-bcp/.
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