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Macmillan Education titles

PLS Permissions

You might be interested in licensing content from our print or digital products. If you do wish to use text, images or any other material contained in a Macmillan product, you will need to contact us in advance.

We have partnered with PLS to handle all our Macmillan Education permissions via their PLS Clear tool. You can request permission by visiting their website.

PLS Clear


Former Macmillan titles

ISBNs starting with 0023 & 0024 are now copyrighted to Prentice Hall/Pearson Higher Education US.

Pearson Permissions

ISBNs starting with 0028 (Macmillan Library Reference titles) are now copyrighted to Cengage.

Cengage Permissions


Pan Macmillan titles

For Pan Macmillan titles, please enquire here:

Pan Macmillan Permissions

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