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Bedford-St. Martin's

American publishing company

Bedford Publishers is an American publishing company specializing in humanities college textbooks. Bedford Publishers is part of the Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishing group owned by Macmillan, which is in turn owned by the Stuttgart-based Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Its offices are in Boston and New York City.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Bedford Publishers is an American publishing company specializing in humanities college textbooks. Bedford Publishers is part of the Bedford, Freeman, and Worth Publishing group owned by Macmillan, which is in turn owned by the Stuttgart-based Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Its offices are in Boston and New York City.2

The story

The company was founded in 1981 by Charles Christensen and Joan Feinberg as Bedford Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press. Bedford Publishers stepped in the market of Ebook Publishing in 2016.

Among others works, Bedford Publishers has published The Bedford Handbook and A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker, Patterns for College Writing, The Bedford Reader, The American Promise, Ways of the World and Writer's Help.

In 2013, Bedford Publishers made a deal with Coursera to offer instructional materials.

From Wikipedia’s article on Bedford/St. Martin's, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

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