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Stein and Day Publishers	The firm of Stein and Day Publishers was founded by Sol Stein and Patricia Day in New York in 1962. In 1989 the firm was forced into bankruptcy. The principal creditor was Bookcrafters (later Sheridan Books). See Sol Stein's account of the legal proceedings in 'Bankruptcy: a feast for lawyers' (1989). The archives of Stein and Day are housed in Columbia University Library.	2008
Stevens & Sons	The legal publishing firm of Stevens & Sons was founded in 1810. In 1950 it was merged with Sweet & Maxwell, which is now part of the Thomson Corporation. See the FOB entry for Sweet & Maxwell; www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.thomson.com.	2006
Stewart Kidd Company	Stewart Kidd Company was a publishing firm based in Cincinatti, founded in 1910. In 1924 the firm was purchased by D. Appleton & Company, later Appleton-Century-Crofts. See the FOB entry for Appleton-Century-Crofts, which indicates that part of the firm has passed into the ownership of Pearson Education and part into the ownership of the Academic Learning Company.	2008
Stone and Kimball	The publishing firm of Stone and Kimball was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1893 by Herbert S. Stone and Hannibal Ingalls Kimball Jr. The firm went out of business in 1897, when some but not all of its assets were acquired by Herbert S. Stone and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 440-443, and see the FOB entry for Herbert S. Stone and Company.	2009
Street and Smith	The publishing firm of Street and Smith was founded in New York in 1855 by Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith. In 1921 it founded a subsidiary firm called Chelsea House (q.v.). When Chelsea House was closed in 1933, Street and Smith ceased to be book publishers but continued to publish magazines and journals. in 1959 the firm was purchased by Condé Nast. The firm continues as a sports magazine publisher. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 444-451 and see www.streetandsmiths.com.	2009
Sutton Publishing	Sutton Publishing was founded by Alan Sutton, and was subsequently in the ownership of Guernsey Press and Haynes, before being bought back by Alan Sutton's NPI Media company in January 2007. See the FOB entry for NPI Media, which indicates that the firm is now in the ownership of the History Press, Charleston, South Carolina (www.historypress.net).	2008
Swan Sonnenschein	William Swan Sonnenschein formed his first publishing firm, W. Swan Sonnenschein & Allen, in 1878. From 1882 this became W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. In 1911 the Swan Sonnenschein company merged with George Allen & Co., and in 1914 the merged firm became George Allen & Unwin Ltd. See the FOB entry for George Allen & Unwin.	2006
Sweet & Maxwell	The legal publishing firm of Sweet & Maxwell was founded in 1799. In 1987 it was acquired by the Thomson Corporation, and it now forms part of Thomson Legal & Regulatory. See www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.thomson.com.	2006
Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers	Swets & Zeitlinger was founded in 1916 and based in Lisse, the Netherlands. In 2003 Swets & Zeitlinger was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.tandf.co.uk/swets.asp.	2008
T. & A. D. Poyser	T. & A. D. Poyser, formerly part of Elsevier Science, is now part of the Natural History division of A. & C. Black Publishers Ltd. A. & C. Black is still trading under its own name (see www.acblack.com), but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing.	2008

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