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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]
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