Editing Pergamon Press (section)

==Sale to Elsevier== 
Maxwell sold Pergamon Press to [[academic publishing]] giant Elsevier in March 1991 for £440 million; the funds were used to repay the large debt taken on by Maxwell in taking control of ''[[New York Daily News]]''.<ref name=Bower>Tom Bower (1991) ''Maxwell the outsider'', Viking Penguin, p. 436. {{ISBN|978-0-749-30238-2}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/30/business/profits-dick-snyder-s-ugly-word.html|title=Profits – Dick Snyder's Ugly Word|last=Cohen|first=Roger|date=1991-06-30|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-04-03}}</ref>

Maxwell retained Pergamon's US books (which became part of sister company [[Macmillan Inc.]]), the [[Chess Magazine|''Chess'']] and [[Bridge Magazine|''Bridge'']] magazines, and some smaller properties.<ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0000-0019| volume = 238| issue = 27| pages = 19–| last = Feldman| first = Gayle| title = Going Dutch: Wolters Kluwer and Elsevier are quietly building PSP empires on both sides of the Atlantic| work = Publishers Weekly| access-date = 2019-05-05| date = 1991-06-21| url = https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&u=ubcolumbia&id=GALE%7CA10908845&v=2.1&it=r}}</ref> The imprint "Pergamon Press" continues to be used to identify journals now published by Elsevier.