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| Alfred H. King, Inc. | Alfred H. King, Inc. was a publishing firm in New York in the early 1930s. In 1935 the firm was purchased by Julian Messner. See the FOB entry for Julian Messner, Inc., which indicates that the firm was acquired by Simon & Schuster in the 1960s. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 235-237 and www.simonsays.com. | 2008 |
| Algonquin Books | Algonquin Books was founded in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 1982. In 1989 the firm was acquired by Workman Publishing, and it still functions as a division of Workman. See www.algonquin.com and www.workman.com. | 2008 |
| Alison Press | Alison Press, founded by Barley Alison in the 1960s, was an associate, an imprint, and finally a subsidiary of Secker & Warburg. See the FOB entry for Secker & Warburg. | 2008 |
| Allen and Ticknor | The bookselling and publishing firm of Allen and Ticknor was founded in Boston in 1832 by John Allen and William D. Ticknor. The firm was dissolved in 1834. Allen went on to found John Allen and Company and Ticknor ran his own firm for many years before co-founding Ticknor, Reed and Fields in 1849. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 8, and see the FOB entries for John Allen and Company and Ticknor, Reed and Fields. | 2009 |
| Allen Lane | Allen Lane was the founder of Penguin in 1935, and his name is still used by the Penguin Group. The Penguin Group is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
| Allman & Son (Publishers) Ltd | The Allman educational list was purchased by John Boon of Mills & Boon in 1961. Mills & Boon was purchased by Harlequin in 1971 (see www.millsandboon.co.uk). The educational and non-fiction general list of Harlequin Mills & Boon was purchased by Bell & Hyman in 1980. See the FOB entry for Bell & Hyman, which indicates that any surviving rights will belong to HarperCollins, part of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com. | 2007 |
| Allyn & Bacon | The Boston firm of Allyn & Bacon was founded in 1868. It became part of the Simon & Schuster Group and was sold to the Pearson Group in 1998, where it has formed part of Pearson Education. See www.pearsoned.com. | 2008 |
| Alphabooks | Alphabooks was purchased by A. & C. Black Publishers Ltd in 1987. A. & C. Black is still trading under its own name (see www.acblack.com), but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing. | 2008 |
| AltaMira Press | AltaMira Press was launched in 1995 as an imprint of Sage Publications. The firm was acquired in 1999 by the Rowman & Littlefield Group. See www.altamirapress.com and www.rowmanlittlefield.com. | 2008 |
| Amalgamated Press | Amalgamated Press was founded by Alfred Harmsworth and began publishing 'Comic Cuts' in 1890. In 1959 the firm was renamed Fleetway Publications. See the FOB entry for Fleetway Publications, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to Egmont Books. See www.egmont.co.uk. | 2007 |
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