{{Infobox publisher | image = Ginn and Heath Publishing in Maine.jpg | caption = Ginn and Heath, circa 1875 | parent = | status = Defunct | founded = 1868 | founder = [[Edwin Ginn]], [[Daniel Collamore Heath]] | successor = [[Xerox]]; [[Simon & Schuster]]; [[Pearson Education]] | country = [[United States]] | headquarters = [[Boston, Massachusetts]] | distribution = | keypeople = | publications = [[Textbook]]s | topics = | genre = | imprints = | revenue = | numemployees = | nasdaq = | url = }} '''Ginn & Company''' was an American [[textbook]] publisher founded by [[Edwin Ginn]] with his brother Fred in 1867, as '''Ginn Brothers'''.<ref name="hiscam">{{cite web |title=Industry in Cambridge |url=https://historycambridge.org/industry/ginncompany.html |website=History Cambridge |access-date=2 May 2026}}</ref> In 1876 it became '''Ginn & Heath''' (with [[Daniel Collamore Heath]]), and in 1885 it was established as Ginn & Company.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/pdf/crms226-0014-032.pdf |title=Textbooks Then and Now |year=1933 |publisher=Ginn and Company |pages=8,11}}</ref>
The imprint's first educational book was ''The English of Shakespeare'' by [[George Lillie Craik]].<ref name="wep">{{cite book |last1=Pulsifer |first1=William Edmond |title=A Brief Account of the Educational Publishing Business in the United States |date=2 March 1921 |url=https://archive.org/details/briefaccountofed00puls/page/n1/mode/2up}}</ref> Their ''Grade School Music Readers'', by [[Luther Whiting Mason]], were, for some time, a standard music textbook in American schools.<ref name="wep"/>
Ginn built the [[Athenaeum Press]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]] in 1895 to house its printing operations, and the company's main offices moved to a [[brownstone]] on the site of the former [[Hancock Manor]] in 1901.<ref>{{cite book |title=Souvenir of the Athenaeum Press |date=1903 |publisher=Ginn & Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BKZrMGprZoYC |access-date=23 November 2022}}</ref> The typeface [[Century type family#Century Schoolbook|Century Schoolbook]] was commissioned by Ginn in 1919 to be used as an easy-to-read type for textbooks. A [[silent film]] was created in 1925 to showcase how Ginn produced books at the Athenaeum Press.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://silentbeauties.blogspot.com/2011/08/ginn-and-company-athenaeum-press-1925.html|title = Silent Beauties: Ginn and Company (Athenaeum Press) - 1925|date = 12 August 2011}}</ref>
The publisher was acquired by [[Xerox]] in 1968 during a surge in acquisitions of traditional textbook publishers by technology companies that included the acquisition of D. C. Heath by [[Raytheon]] a couple years earlier.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moore |first1=John Hammond |title=Wiley, one hundred and seventy five years of publishing. |date=1982 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location=New York |isbn=0471860824 |page=206}}</ref> Xerox would later sell Ginn to [[Simon & Schuster]] who merged it in the 1980s with another acquisition, [[Silver Burdett Press]], to form the imprint '''Silver Burdett & Ginn'''. [[Pearson PLC]] acquired Simon & Schuster's educational businesses in 1998 to form [[Pearson Education]], and closed down the Silver Burdett & Ginn imprint in 1999.
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==Further reading== * "[https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/ead/pdf/crms226-0014-032.pdf Textbooks Then and Now: A brief narrative of the progress in textbook-making in the past century and of Ginn and Company's development as a national institution]. Ginn and Company. 1933. 24 p.
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