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| Balkema | The Dutch publishers Balkema were purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 2003. Balkema started publishing around 1941 (their edition of the poems of W. B. Yeats is dated 1939, but this is believed to be a false date). See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.balkema.nl. | 2008 |
| Ballantine Books | Ballantine Books was founded in 1952 by Ian and Betty Ballantine. The firm was purchased by Random House in 1973, and Ballantine Books remains a major Random House / Bertelsmann imprint. See www.randomhouse.com and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Bantam Books | Bantam Books was founded in 1945 as a mass market paperback publisher. The firm went through various ownership arrangements until Bertelsmann purchased a large share of the company in 1980. Bantam Books is now part of Bantam Dell Publishing, which is part of Random House, which in turn is part of Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Barrie & Jenkins | The firm of Barrie & Jenkins was formed in 1964 by the merger of Herbert Jenkins and Barrie & Rockliff. Barrie & Jenkins is now a subsidiary and imprint of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Barrie & Rockliff | The firm of Barrie & Rockliff merged with Herbert Jenkins in 1964 to form Barrie & Jenkins. Barrie & Jenkins is now a subsidiary and imprint of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Barrie Books | Barrie Books was founded by James Barrie (great-nephew of the author of 'Peter Pan') in 1947. In 1957 Barrie Books purchased Rockliff Books and formed Barrie & Rockliff. See the FOB entry for Barrie & Rockliff. | 2008 |
| Barrington Gray | Barrington Gray established his own firm, publishing popular fiction, in Leigh-on-Sea in 1946. According to Steve Holland, debts to printers forced him out of business in 1961. See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), p. 17. | 2008 |
| Barse and Hopkins | The publishing firm of Barse and Hopkins was founded in New York in 1909 by William J. Barse and John H. Hopkins. In 1928 Hopkins left the firm to become a literary agent and it continued as Barse and Company. Barse and Company went bankrupt in 1932 and its stock was acquired by Grosset & Dunlap. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 42-44, and see the FOB entry for Grosset & Dunlap, which indicates that the firm is now part of the US Penguin group (us.penguingroup.com). | 2008 |
| Bartholomew | The map publishers Bartholomew was founded in Edinburgh by John Bartholomew in 1826. In 1980 the firm was sold to Reader's Digest, who in turn sold it on to News International (now News Corporation) in 1985. See www.newscorp.com. Bartholomew now usually trades as Collins Bartholomew. See www.bartholomewmaps.com. | 2008 |
| Basic Books | The publishing firm Basic Books was founded by Arthur Rosenthal in 1952. In 1969 he sold the firm to Harper & Row (later HarperCollins). In 1997 Basic Books was purchased from HarperCollins by the Perseus Books Group. See www.perseusbooks.com. | 2008 |
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