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Alpha Books
Parent company Dorling Kindersley(Penguin Random House)
Founded 1991
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location Indianapolis, Indiana
Official website www.dk.com

Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Random House, is an American publisher best known for its Complete Idiot's Guides series. It began as a division of Macmillan. Pearson Education acquired Macmillan General Reference (MGR) from Simon & Schuster in 1998 and retained Complete Idiot's Guides while the rest of MGR was sold to IDG Books.[1] Alpha moved from Pearson Education to Penguin Group in 2003. Alpha became part of sister company DK in 2012.[2]

As of 2021[update], the Complete Idiot's Guides contains over 120 books.[3]

  1. ^ Milliot, Jim; Baker, John F. (5 July 1999). "IDG Books Buys Macmillan General Reference". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Dorling Kindersley relaunches Idiot's Guide series | The Bookseller". Retrieved 2017-12-23.
  3. ^ "Idiot's Guides". PenguinRandomhouse.com.