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| Capstone Publishing Ltd | Capstone Publishing Ltd was founded in Oxford, UK, as a publisher of professional business and management books. The firm has no connection with Capstone Publishers of Mankato, Minnesota. In 2001 Capstone Publishing Ltd was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| Cardal Publishing Co. | Cardal Publishing Co. was a publisher of popular fiction in the post-war period. According to Steve Holland, cash flow problems caused by obscenity fines forced the firm out of business before the end of the 1940s. See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), pp. 53-54. | 2008 |
| Carey Kingsgate Press Ltd | The Carey Kingsgate Press was formed by a merger of the Carey Press of the Baptist Missionary Society and the Kingsgate Press of the Baptist Union in about 1947. The imprint ceased to be used from the end of the 1960s and both the Baptist Missionary Society (now BMS World Mission) and the Baptist Union have since then published under their own names. See www.bmsworldmission.org and www.baptist.org.uk. | 2008 |
| Carey Press | The Carey Kingsgate Press was formed by a merger of the Carey Press of the Baptist Missionary Society (now BMS World Mission) and the Kingsgate Press of the Baptist Union in about 1947. See the FOB entry for Carey Kingsgate Press Ltd and www.bmsworldmission.org. | 2008 |
| Carfax | Carfax was founded in 1972, and subsequently became part of the Routledge Group. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com. | 2006 |
| Carousel Books | Carousel Books was an imprint of Transworld Publishing in the 1980s. See the FOB entry for Transworld Publishing, which indicates that Transworld is now part of Bertelsmann's Random House Group. See www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Carroll & Graf | The publishing firm of Carroll & Graf was founded in 1982 by Kent Carroll and Herman Graf, and subsequently became an imprint of Avalon. Following the acquisition of Avalon by the Perseus Books Group in 2007, the Carroll & Graf imprint was closed down. See www.perseusbooks.com. | 2008 |
| Casablanca Press | Casablanca Press was founded as a relationship and romance self-help publisher. In 1996 the firm was acquired by Sourcebooks and it now operates as Sourcebooks Casablanca. See www.sourcebooks.com. | 2008 |
| Cassell | The firm of Cassell was founded by John Cassell in 1848. See Simon Nowell-Smith: 'The house of Cassell, 1848-1958'. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and became part of Orion Books. Following subsequent sales and reorganisations, Cassell Reference is published by Orion Books; Cassell Illustrated is part of the Octopus Group (also owned by Hachette); and Cassell Academic is part of the Continuum Group. See www.orionbooks.co.uk; www.octopus-publishing.co.uk; www.continuumbooks.com; and www.hachette.com. | 2008 |
| CDG Books Canada | The firm of CDG Books Canada published the 'For Dummies' series and other educational works in Canada. In 2001-02, as part of the acquisition of Hungry Minds by Wiley, CDG Books Canada was acquired by John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd and Gage Learning Corporation. Wiley was unable to purchase the whole firm because of Canadian regulatory laws, but became the publisher of 'For Dummies' in Canada. CDG Books Canada was closed down in 2002. See ca.wiley.com. | 2008 |
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