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| James Munroe and Company | The bookselling and publishing firm of Munroe and Nichols was founded in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early 1830s by James Munroe and George Nichols. From 1835 the firm became known as James Munroe and Company. Munroe died in 1861 and the firm went out of business in 1861 or 1862. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 319. | 2009 |
| James R. Osgood and Company | James R. Osgood and Company was founded in Boston in 1871 as a successor firm to Fields, Osgood and Company (q.v.). The firm was in financial difficulty in 1878 and was forced to merge with Hurt and Houghton to form Houghton, Osgood and Company (q.v.). James R. Osgood and Company was re-formed in 1880 and continued until it went out of business in 1885. The firm's debts were covered by the new firm of Ticknor and Company (q.v.). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 341-347. | 2009 |
| Jems Communications Inc. | The firm of Jems Communications Inc., of Carlsbad, California, publishers of prehospital periodicals, was purchased by the C. V. Mosby Company (a division of Times Mirror) in 1993. Mosby was purchased by Harcourt Brace & Company from Times Mirror in 1998, and the Harcourt Group was in turn purchased by Reed Elsevier in 2001. After the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008 Mosby remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com. | 2008 |
| Jerome H. Remick & Co. | The music publishing firm of Jerome H. Remick & Co. was established in New York City in 1906, after the dissolution of Shapiro-Remick & Company. It later became known as the Remick Music Corporation. In 1929 the firm was purchased by Warner Brothers Pictures, and it is identified as one of the predecessor firms of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. in the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com. | 2007 |
| John Allen and Company | John Allen founded his bookselling and publishing firm in Boston in 1834. The firm relocated to New York in 1837 and went out of business around 1849. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 8. | 2009 |
| John B. Alden | John B. Alden began his bookselling and publishing business in New York in the 1870s. He founded a number of firms, several of which went bankrupt. His last two enterprises bore the names of John B. Alden Publisher (1895-1905) and Alden Brothers Publishers (1905-1908). In 1908 he retired and closed down his firm. He died in 1924. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 6. | 2009 |
| John Bioren | John Bioren began his publishing career with the firm of Mountford, Bioren and Company in Philadelphia in 1794. In 1795 he went into partnership with Patrick Madan to form Bioren and Madan, and from 1797 he traded under his own name only. Bioren died in 1835 and his firm went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 52. | 2009 |
| John C. Winston Company | The publishing firm of John C. Winston Company was founded in Philadelphia in 1884. In 1959-1960 it merged with the firms of Henry Holt and Company and Rinehart and Company to form Holt, Rinehart and Winston. See the FOB entry for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, which indicates that the firm is now part of Harcourt Education, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com. | 2009 |
| John Camden Hotten | John Camden Hotten ran a printing and publishing firm which published works by Rossetti, Swinburne, Whitman and others from the 1850s to the 1870s. Hotten died in 1873, and his firm was absorbed into Chatto & Windus. See the FOB entry for Chatto & Windus Ltd. | 2008 |
| John Day Company | The John Day Company was a publishing house founded in New York in 1926. In 1968 the firm was acquired by Intext, Inc. See the FOB entry for Intext, which indicates that any surviving rights of the John Day Company will now belong to the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. | 2008 |
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