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Silver Burdett

American textbook publisher

StatusDefunct
Founded1888
Defunct1999 
Country of originUnited States
Publication typesBooks
Nonfiction topicsMusic

Silver Burdett was an American primary educationtextbookpublishingimprint previously operated by Pearson Education, which is a division of media conglomerate Pearson PLC.

The trademark was last owned by Savvas Learning Company.[1]

History

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Silver Burdett first formed as a company in 1888 when Frank W. Burdett purchased a controlling interest in the textbook publishing company, Silver & Company.[2] In 1962, it was acquired by Time Inc., and it became the distributor of Time-Life Books to schools and libraries.[2] In 1965 it became the first division of the General Learning Corporation, a multi-million dollar collaboration between Time Inc.

and General Electric.[2]Simon & Schuster purchased it in 1986, and merged it with Ginn &a