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Row, Peterson & Company
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Dates of existence
1902-1962
History
Robert Row was a textbook author and teacher. Isaac Peterson had considerable experience as a textbook salesman as well as the willingness to risk his life savings. Together, they founded Row, Peterson & Co. by publishing Essential Studies in English, which sold at a rate of 100,000 copies a year.
The company made a deal with Copp Clark Co. in 1939 to reprint and distribute readers and textbooks in Canada, and a similar arrangement with a London firm saw Row, Peterson books appear throughout the British Commonwealth. A partnership with Hiroshima Publishing Company resulted in Japanese translations of some of Row, Peterson’s most popular texts. Deals in a number of other international markets followed.
The merger of Row, Peterson & Co. with Harper & Brothers in 1962 created Harper & Row, which was dubbed “one of the larger, better-diversified members of the book-publishing fraternity,” according to Barron’s National Business and Financial Weekly.
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Record created November 23, 2022.
Record revised December 23, 2025.
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- English
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Harper Collins Publishers https://200.hc.com/stories/textbook-publishing-row-peterson-co/
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Record created by AE.
Record revised by KM.