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It was still unclear who would be buying and using 'personal computers', and the scarcity of useful software and instruction created a publishing market niche whose target audience yet had to be defined. Other titles include Dennis Nolan's Big Pig (1976), Monster Bubbles: A Counting Book (1976), Alphabrutes (1977), Wizard McBean and his Flying Machine (1977), Witch Bazooza (1979), Llama Beans (1979, with author Charles Keller, and The Joy of Chickens (1981).Ī Prentice Hall subsidiary, Reston Publishing, was in the foreground of technical-book publishing when microcomputers were first becoming available. They also published the well-known computer programming book The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie and Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Andrew S. Russell and Peter Norvig and ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham.

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Their artificial intelligence series includes Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart J. Prentice Hall is the publisher of Magruder's American Government as well as Biology by Ken Miller and Joe Levine, and Sociology and Society: The Basics by John Macionis. K-12 and school titles of Prentice Hall were absorbed into Savvas Learning (along with Prentice Hall web domains which redirected to Savvas Learning homepage).

Pearson sold its K-12 educational publishing in the United States in 2019 the division was renamed Savvas Learning. Subsequently, Pearson absorbed Prentice Hall's higher education and technical reference titles into Pearson Education. Simon & Schuster's educational division, including Prentice Hall, was sold to Pearson plc by G+W successor Viacom in 1998. Wolters Kluwer acquired Prentice Hall Law & Business. Prentice Hall Legal & Financial Services was sold to CSC Networks and CDB Infotek. In 1994, Gulf+Western successor Paramount was sold to Viacom. Publication of trade books ended in 1991.

In 1990, Prentice Hall Press, a trade book publisher, was moved to Simon & Schuster Trade and Prentice Hall's reference & travel was moved to Simon & Schuster's mass market unit. In 1989, Prentice Hall Information Services was sold to Macmillan Inc. S&S sold several Prentice Hall subsidiaries: Deltak and Resource Systems were sold to National Education Center. Prentice Hall was acquired by Gulf+Western in 1984, and became part of that company's publishing division Simon & Schuster. Prentice Hall acquired the training provider Deltak in 1979.

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Prentice Hall became known as a publisher of trade books by authors such as Norman Vincent Peale elementary, secondary, and college textbooks loose-leaf information services and professional books. Gerstenberg and Ettinger took their mothers' maiden names, Prentice and Hall, to name their new company. On October 13, 1913, law professor Charles Gerstenberg and his student Richard Ettinger founded Prentice Hall.