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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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