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07-SEPTEMBER-2008 03:17:44 - Dorling Kindersley Dorling Kindersley Type Founded 1974 Headquarters Flag of the United Kingdom London, England, UK Key people Christopher Dorling, Peter Kindersley Parent Penguin Group, part of Pearson PLC Website www.dk.com Dorling Kindersley DK is an international publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 51 languages. Contents 1 History 2 Publications 3 See also 4 External links 5 References History DK was founded as a book-packaging company by Christopher Dorling and Peter Kindersley in London in 1974, and in 1982 moved into publishing. The first book published under the DK name was a First Aid Manual for the British voluntary medical services; this book established the company's distinctive visual style of copiously illustrated text on a glossy white background. DK Inc. began publishing in the United States in 1991. In 1999 DK printed 18 million Star Wars books but sold less than half of them, leaving the company with crippling debt. As a direct result, DK was taken over the following year by the Pearson PLC media company, and made part of Penguin Group, which also owns the Penguin Books label.1 Publications DK publishes an extensive range of titles internationally for adults and children. Most of the company's books are produced by teams of ors and designers who work with freelance writers and illustrators. Some are endorsed by imprimaturs: well-known and respected organizations such as the British Medical Association, the Royal Horticultural Society, and the British Red Cross. Many DK books apparently produced by celebrity authors such as Carol Vorderman are actually ghostwritten by the company's own writers and ors. Popular titles that DK has published include The Way The Universe Works, The Way Science Works, and a series of large-format visual guides with such titles as Universe, Earth, Animal, Human, and History. Other successful book series published in the 1990's included Eyewitness and DK Superguides. Dorling Kindersley's London office is at Shell Mex House, 80 Strand, a 1930s Art Deco building easily recognizable from the River Thames by its distinctive clock. Dorling Kindersley's London office is at Shell Mex House, 80 Strand, a 1930s Art Deco building easily recognizable from the River Thames by its distinctive clock. During the 1990s, the company also published educational videos and a successful range of educational CD-ROMs under the brand DK Multimedia, during the late 1990s CD-ROMs were rebranded as DK Interactive Learning to reflect a changed emphasis toward the educational sector. The programs were written in C++ using a cross-platform software framework known internally as Penge named after the South London suburb and ran on Microsoft Windows and the Apple Macintosh. The media data and scripts were compressed using a process called scrunging. The content screens were laid out on Macintosh using Quark XPress under System 7 later OS8, and authored using a custom-created Xtension named 'XTauthor' through which the screens could be exported as 24bit PICT files for subsequent palette optimisation into 8 bit DIB, GIFf or PNG format, and the authoring as an associated 'PAGE' file with .pag extension. The open architecture of the products prior to the scrunge procedure enabled relatively straightforward localisation for foreign publishers. Following dwindling sales and increasing competition from websites, the company tried to rebrand the digital part of its business as DK Online before opting to sell it to an entirely separate company, Global Software Publishing GSP, in 2000. Most of the remaining CD-ROM staff were made redundant during the acquisition of the company by Pearson PLC. See also Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia UK children's book publishers External links Dorling Kindersley website References ^ The Literator Friday, 16 May 2008, Cover Stories: Political memoirs; the environmental Bible; Dorling Kindersley, The Independent, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/cover-stories-political-memoirs-the-environmental-bible-dorling-kindersley-828940.html Retrieved from http://en..org/wiki/Dorling_Kindersley Categories: Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom | Travel guide books Views Article Discussion this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main page Contents Featured content Current events Random article Search Go Search Interaction Community portal Recent changes Contact Donate to Help Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Printable version Permanent link Cite this page Languages Deutsch Français Português This page was last modified on 27 August 2008, at 15:38
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