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| Commercial Bookbinding Company | Commercial Bookbinding Company was founded in Cleveland in 1905 by Alfred Cahen. In 1929 Cahen purchased a Bible-publishing firm called World Syndicate Company and merged the two firms into World Syndicate Publishing Company. In 1940 the firm was renamed World Publishing Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 386-390, and see the FOB entry for World Publishing Company, which indicates that the company name disappeared during the 1970s, when ownership of the firm was divided between Times-Mirror and William Collins. | 2008 |
| Communispond | Communispond was purchased by IIR in 2002. IIR was in turn purchased by T. & F. Informa (formerly Taylor & Francis) in 2005. See www.communispond.com and www.informa.com. | 2006 |
| Conran Octopus | Conran Octopus was founded in the 1980s and was originally known as Octopus Conran. It formed part of the Octopus Publishing Group, founded by Paul Hamlyn. The Octopus Group was purchased by Hachette in 2001. See www.hachette.com and www.octopus-publishing.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Constable & Co. Ltd | The firm of Constable & Co. was founded in 1890 by Archibald Constable, grandson of the Archibald Constable whose firm failed in 1826. The firm remained independent and in 1999 merged with Robinson Publishing Ltd to form Constable & Robinson. See www.constablerobinson.com. | 2006 |
| Contact Publications | Contact Publications was founded by George Weidenfeld around 1944, and published the magazine 'Contact' and a number of books. From 1949 it was absorbed into Weidenfeld & Nicolson, which is now part of the Orion Group. See the Weidenfeld & Nicolson entry in FOB and www.orionbooks.co.uk. | 2006 |
| Contemporary Books | Contemporary Books was formed in 1977 as the successor firm to Henry Regnery Company (q.v.). Contemporary Books was acquired by the Tribune Company in 1993, and in 1996 became part of NTC/Contemporary. NTC/Contemporary was acquired by McGraw-Hill in 2000 as part of its purchase of Tribune Education. See www.mcgraw-hill.com. | 2008 |
| Conway | The publishing firm of Conway was founded in 1972, specialising in naval history and books about shipping. It became an imprint of Chrysalis Books, and since 2005 has been an imprint of Anova Books. See www.anovabooks.com. | 2007 |
| Cooper Square Press | Cooper Square Press was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Group in 1988 and now forms part of Taylor Trade Publishing. See www.rlpgtrade.com. | 2008 |
| Copeland and Day | The publishing firm of Copeland and Day was founded in Boston around 1892 by Herbert Copeland and Frederick Holland Day. The firm went out of business in 1899 and its titles still in print were sold off, mostly to Small, Maynard and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 104-106 and see the FOB entry for Small, Maynard and Company. | 2009 |
| Cornmarket Press | Cornmarket Press was a London-based publishing house in the 1960s and 1970s. The firm was wound up in 1973, when Mr M. J. Spencer was appointed as Liquidator (see notices in 'The Times' newspaper, June and August 1973). | 2008 |
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