Sams Publishing

Parent company	Pearson Education
Founded	1946
Founder	Howard W. Sams
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	Carmel, Indiana
Official website	www.informit.com/sams

Sams Publishing (originallyHoward W. Sams & Co.) is animprint for technical training manuals owned by the global education companyPearson plc.

Sams Publishing was founded in 1946 byHoward W. Sams, originally producing radio schematics and repair manuals. It was acquired byITT in 1967. ITT sold its publishing division in 1985 toMacmillan. In 1987, Sams was split into three divisions with the computer book division transferred to what later became Macmillan Computer Publishing.^[1]

Macmillan Computer Publishing was sold in 1991 toParamount Communications, the parent company ofSimon & Schuster, which absorbed the computer publishing division.^[2] Simon & Schuster later sold its education division to the imprint's current owner,Pearson.

The computer books division is notable for its "Teach Yourself", "Unleashed" and "21 days" book series.

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