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| Blaisdell Publishing Company | Blaisdell Publishing Company operated from Waltham, Massachusetts until the late 1960s, when it became Ginn-Blaisdell. See the FOB entry for Ginn-Blaisdell, which indicates that all rights are now owned by Wiley. See www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| Bloom's Literary Criticism | The publishing firm called Bloom's Literary Criticism was founded by Professor Harold Bloom. In 2005 the firm was sold by Haights Cross Communications to Facts on File, Inc., which is owned by Infobase Publishing. See www.infobasepublishing.com. | 2008 |
| Bobbs-Merrill Company | The Bobbs-Merrill Company was founded in Indianapolis in 1903 and became one of the most important publishing houses in the USA. In 1958 the firm was purchased by Howard W. Sams, and in 1985 all the Sams businesses were acquired by Macmillan, Inc., which decided to discontinue the Bobbs-Merrill operation. The following paragraph is taken from 'The encyclopedia of Indianapolis', edited by David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows, p. 337: "Macmillan was itself acquired in 1988 by the London-based Maxwell Communications Corporation, and Sams and Que were merged. Shortly before Robert Maxwell drowned in a boating accident, with colossal consequences for his gigantic publishing empire, the Indianapolis entity was sold to Paramount Communications (owners of the movie studio). By then, Paramount owned both the Simon and Schuster and the Prentice Hall publishing houses. The Indianapolis company then became Prentice Hall Computer Publishing, a part of Simon and Schuster ...". See the FOB entry for Prentice Hall, which indicates that the firm was sold by Simon & Schuster to the Pearson Group in 1998 and is now an imprint of Pearson Education. See www.pearsoned.com. | 2008 |
| Bosworth & Co. Ltd | Bosworth & Co. is a long-established music publisher. The firm is now part of Music Sales Ltd. See www.musicsales.com. | 2007 |
| Bowen-Merrill Company | Bowen-Merrill Company was an Indianapolis publishing company. In 1903 William C. Bobbs replaced Silas Bowen as part-owner of the firm and the name was changed to Bobbs-Merrill. See the lengthy FOB entry for Bobbs-Merrill, which indicates that any surviving rights will belong to Pearson Education (www.pearsoned.com). | 2008 |
| Boynton/Cook | Boynton/Cook was founded as a publisher of professional books for English teachers. In 1987 the firm became part of Heinemann Publishing (Heinemann USA). See the FOB entry for Heinemann Publishing, which indicates that from 2008 Heinemann USA is a subsidiary of the Greenwood Publishing Group, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.heinemann.com; www.greenwood.com; and www.hmhco.com. | 2008 |
| Brashear Music Company | The Brashear Music Company was acquired by Branden Press in 1969. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 64; the FOB entry for Branden Press; and www.brandenbooks.com. | 2008 |
| Brewer, Barse and Company | Brewer, Barse and Company was a publishing house in Chicago. In 1909 the firm's founder William J. Barse moved to New York and founded Barse and Hopkins. See the FOB entry for Barse and Hopkins, which indicates that the firm went bankrupt in 1932 and its stock was acquired by Grosset & Dunlap. See the FOB entry for Grosset & Dunlap, which indicates that that firm is now part of the US Penguin group (us.penguingroup.com). | 2008 |
| Broadway Publishing Company | Broadway Publishing Company was founded in New York around 1901 and published fiction and poetry in the years before World War I. The firm went out of business around 1912. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 71-73. | 2008 |
| Brockhampton Press | The Brockhampton Press was founded as the Brockhampton Book Company in Leicester in the 1940s. Brockhampton Press is now part of the Caxton Publishing Group, and the imprint is still in use. See www.caxtonpublishing.com. | 2009 |
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