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| Holloway House Publishing Company | Holloway House Publishing Company was founded in Los Angeles in 1961. The firm was acquired by Kensington Books in 2008. See www.kensingtonbooks.com. | 2008 |
| Hopwood & Crew | The firm of Hopwood & Crew was founded in 1860. In 1906 it was merged with Eugene Ascherberg & Co. to form Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew. See the FOB entry for Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, which indicates that any surving rights will belong to Warner Chappell Music. See www.warnerchappell.co.uk. | 2007 |
| Houghton, Osgood and Company | Houghton, Osgood and Company was one of numerous predecessor firms of Houghton Mifflin. The firm was formed in 1878 by a merger of Hurt & Houghton and James R. Osgood and Company. In 1880 James R. Osgood withdrew from the firm to re-form his own company and Henry Houghton and George Mifflin formed Houghton Mifflin, absorbing the debts of Houghton, Osgood and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 219-220 & 341-347 and see the Company History page of www.hmco.com. | 2009 |
| Hutchinson | George Hutchinson founded his publishing company in 1887 and it remained a family firm until it was sold to London Weekend Television in 1979. In 1985 London Weekend Television sold Hutchinson to Century and the firm of Century Hutchinson was formed. Century Hutchinson was purchased by Random House UK in 1989. Random House UK was known as the "Random Century Group Limited" from 1989 to 1992, when it was renamed "Random House UK Limited". Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
| IBC Business Publishing | IBC Business Publishing is now part of the T&F Informa Group. See www.ibcbuspub.co.uk and www.informa.com. | 2006 |
| Increase Cooke and Company | Increase Cooke founded his bookselling and publishing firm in New Haven, Connecticut in 1802. The firm ceased publishing in 1813 and Cooke died the following year. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 103. | 2009 |
| Intext, Inc. | Intext, Inc. was founded around 1900 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The firm's original name was International Textbook Company. In 1974 Intext was purchased by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., which in turn was purchased by Harper & Row (now HarperCollins) in 1978. HarperCollins is a division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com. | 2006 |
| Irwin P. Beadle and Company | The publishing firm of Irwin P. Beadle and Company was founded by Irwin Beadle and Robert Adams in 1859, and forms part of the complex of firms usually described as Beadle and Adams (q.v.). Several times Irwin Beadle separated from the main firm, founding a second Irwin P. Beadle and Company in 1862 (sold to George Munro in 1864) and a third Irwin P. Beadle and Company from 1865 to 1867. See www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 43-46. | 2009 |
| J. & A. Churchill | The medical publishers J. & A. Churchill had become part of the Longman Group before the merger with Penguin in 1970 and the subsequent formation of the Pearson Longman Group. See the Longman entry in FOB and www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
| J. B. Lippincott | The Lippincott publishing company was founded in 1785 and remained a family firm until it was purchased by Harper & Row in 1977. Harper & Row created an imprint called Lippincott & Crowell. The Lippincott division was sold by HarperCollins to Wolters Kluwer in 1990. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is now a division of Wolters Kluwer. See www.lww.com and www.wolters-kluwer.com. | 2009 |
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