Orbis Publishing

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Orbis Publishing
TypeLimited
IndustryPublishing
Founded1970;53 years ago (1970)
Defunct1999 (1999)
FateAcquired by Italian De Agostini group
Successor De Agostini UK Ltd
Headquarters

Orbis Publishing Ltd. was a United Kingdom-based publisher of books and partworks.

Contents

Company history

Orbis Publishing Limited was founded in 1970. The company was originally registered on 25 November 1969 under the name Reefdell Limited with the company director and secretary named as Stanley Harold Davis, of 3-5 Leonard Street, City Road, London E.C.2. and the office manager named as David Ordish of the same address. [1] On 1 June 1970 the name of the company was changed to Orbis Publishing Limited and the company secretary was at that date named as S. D. Davis. [1]

Orbis employed many writers, researchers, academics, designers, artists and photographers to create the contents for the issues in their various partworks series, including John Gooders, a prolific writer of books on birdlife, who was a consultant editor to Orbis's partwork series The Encyclopaedia of Birds, his work there being so successful as "to merit and entension, requiring Gooders to write a further 12,000 words a week for each of the 26 additional issues". [2]

Partworks publishing was a highly competitive market and for the launch of its partwork series, World of Wildlife in 1971, Orbis Publishing spent "£110,000 for television commercials and another £12,000 for full-page advertisements in the nationals - all crammed into a single message-laden week". [3]

Orbis Publishing was merged into De Agostini UK Ltd in 1999 after being acquired by the Italian De Agostini group.

Partworks

Albums

Some magazine partworks were published accompanied with compilation albums. [8]

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