Doubleday is an american publishing company It was founded as the doubleday & mcclure company in 1897 By 1947, it 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.
Doubleday's century of publishing began in 1897 when frank nelson doubleday, with remarkable confidence, and a back loan of five thousand dollars, founded doubleday &mcclure company in partnership with magazine publisher samuel mcclure Among their first bestsellers was a day's work by rudyard kipling.
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