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| Learning Company | The Learning Company is a specialist software firm which was acquired by Riverdeep in 2001. See the FOB entry for Riverdeep, which indicates that the firm is now part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com. | 2009 |
| Limited Editions Club | http://limitededitionsclub.com/ 1-212-737-7600 | 2021 |
| Lion Books, Inc. | Lion Books was a small publishing house founded by Martin Goodman in New York in 1949. The firm was briefly first known as Select Publications. Both Select Publications and Lion Books used the imprint Red Circle Books. in 1957 Lion Books was acquired by New American Library. See the FOB entry for New American Library, which indicates that in 1986 NAL was purchased by Penguin Group USA. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 211-213. | 2008 |
| Literary Cavalcade | Literary Cavalcade was the title of a magazine launched by Scholastic, Inc. in 1948. See www.scholastic.com, which states "In 2005, in its 57th year, Literary Cavalcade ceased publication as a print magazine and was incorporated into the www.scholastic.com WriteIt web site". | 2008 |
| Liveright Publishing Corporation | The publishing firm of Boni and Liveright was founded in New York in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. In 1918 business differences between the founders led to a split and (on the flip of a coin) sole ownership of the firm passed to Liveright. In 1928 the name of the firm was changed to Horace Liveright, Inc., and in 1933 it became the Liveright Publishing Corporation. The Liveright Publishing Corporation was acquired by W. W. Norton in 1974. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 57-63 and www.wwnorton.com. | 2008 |
| Lockwood & Co. | The publishing firm of Lockwood & Co was established by Mark Lockwood in the early nineteenth century. On his death in the 1850s his son Crosby Lockwood took over the running of the company and changed the name of the firm to Crosby Lockwood & Co. Crosby Lockwood remained an independent firm until it was acquired by Granada Publishing in 1972. See the FOB entry for Granada Publishing, which indicates that any surviving rights will now be owned by the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. | 2006 |
| Longman & Broderip | The music publishing firm of J. Longman & Co. was founded in London around 1767. The firm became Longman & Broderip around 1776 and went bankrupt in 1798. See See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and the FOB entry for Broderip & Wilkinson. | 2007 |
| Lothrop Publishing Company | Lothrop Publishing Company was founded as D. Lothrop and Company in Boston in 1868. In 1904 the firm went bankrupt and was purchased by the publishing firm of Lee and Shepard. See the FOB entry for Lee and Shepard and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 250-252. | 2009 |
| M. J. Ivers and Company | The publishing firm of M. J. Ivers and Company was founded in New York around 1882. In 1898 it acquired the assets of the firm of Beadle and Adams, including the Dime Library. The firm went out of business around 1905 and its assets were acquired by the Arthur Westbrook Company of Cincinnati. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 221. | 2009 |
| Macdonald & Co. | The publishing firm of Macdonald & Co. was acquired by Robert Maxwell and became part of the British Printing & Communications Corporation, later the Maxwell Communications Corporation. In 1989, Maxwell sold Macdonald's Children's Books and Macdonald Educational to Simon & Schuster. All the Simon & Schuster educational businesses were bought by Pearson in 1998, forming the basis of Pearson Education. After Robert Maxwell's death in 1991, much of the remainder of the Macdonald firm was bought by Little, Brown UK, while titles published by Macdonald Children's Books were acquired by Hodder Children's Books. See www.pearsoned.com; www.littlebrown.co.uk; and www.hodderchildrens.co.uk. | 2008 |
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