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| New York Variety Publishing Company | The publishing list of the New York Variety Publishing Company was purchased by M. Witmark & Sons in 1886. See the FOB entry for M. Witmark & Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com. | 2008 |
| Newton Falls Paper Company | Newton Falls Paper Company was an early acquisition of the McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1920. See www.mcgraw-hill.com. | 2008 |
| Nicholas Trübner | Nicholas Trübner formed his publishing company in 1851. The company was merged with Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. in 1889 to form Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. In 1912 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. merged with George Routledge & Sons to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2008 |
| North-Holland Publishing Company | In 1971 there was a merger of Noord Hollandsche Uitgeversmaatschappij (known in the English-speaking world as North-Holland Publishing Company), Elsevier NV and Excerpta Medica, to form Associated Scientific Publishers. The principal company name was Elsevier. In 1993 Elsevier NV merged with Reed International plc to form Reed Elsevier. See www.reedelsevier.com. | 2006 |
| Norwood Press | Norwood Press was formed in 1894 and constituted an alliance between three independent firms in Norwood, Massachusetts: J. S. Cushing & Co., Berwick & Smith and E. Fleming & Co. After World War II, production declined and Norwood Press and its constituent companies had all closed by 1953 [information from the records of the Norwood Historical Society]. | 2009 |
| Nottingham Group plc | In 1997 Nottingham Group plc and the firm of Philip Harris merged to form a new company called Novara. In 2001 Novara was purchased by Findel plc. See www.findel-education.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Odyssey Classics | Odyssey Classics was established as a children's imprint of Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace. From 2007 Odyssey Classics is an imprint of Harcourt Children's Books, within Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com and www.harcourtbooks.com. | 2008 |
| Ordinate Corporation | The Ordinate Corporation was founded in Menlo Park, California, specializing in automated language proficiency assessments. In 2004 the Ordinate Corporation was acquired by the Harcourt Assessment division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Assessment was purchased by Pearson in 2008. See www.harcourtassessment.com and pearsonassess.com. | 2008 |
| Orion Publishing Group Ltd | The following passage is taken from the Orion website (http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/history.aspx): "The Orion Publishing Group Limited was founded in 1991. Soon after incorporation, Orion began negotiations with Lord Weidenfeld and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson as the nucleus of a new, entrepreneurial publishing group." The Orion Publishing Group was bought by Hachette in 1998, but continues to trade under its own name. | 2008 |
| Osgood, McIlvaine and Company | The firm of Osgood, McIlvaine and Company was established in London in 1891 by James Ripley Osgood and Clarence W. McIlvaine, but it was never an independent company. From the beginning the firm was wholly owned by Harper & Brothers. From 1897 the firm ceased publishing and its titles transferred to Harper & Brothers. See the FOB entry for Harper & Brothers. | 2009 |
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