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| Regnery Publishing | Regnery Publishing was founded as a new firm in 1977 by Henry Regnery, shortly after he had sold the Henry Regnery Company (q.v.). The new firm was briefly known as Regnery Gateway. In 1993 the firm was acquired by Eagle Publishing. See www.regnery.com/eagle.html. | 2008 |
| Richard G. Badger and Company | The publishing firm of Richard G. Badger and Company was founded in Boston around 1896. In 1932 the firm was purchased by Bruce Humphries. See the FOB entry for Bruce Humphries, and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 32. | 2009 |
| Rough Guides | The travel publishing firm of Rough Guides was founded by Mark Ellingham and others in 1981. In 2002 the firm was acquired by Pearson and brought under the Penguin division. See www.roughguides.com and www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
| Rudd and Carleton | The publishing firm of Rudd and Carleton was founded in New York in 1857 as the successor firm to Livermore and Rudd. In 1857 Edward Livermore retired from the firm and its owners became Edward P. Rudd, his father George Rudd and George Washington Carleton. In 1861 both the Rudds retired, and the firm continued as G. W. Carleton. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 398, and see the FOB entry for G. W. Carleton. | 2009 |
| Silver Burdett Company | Silver Burdett Company was founded (as Silver & Co.) in the 1880s as an education publishing house. The firm was purchased in 1985-86 by Simon & Schuster. In 1998 all the Simon & Schuster educational businesses, including Silver Burdett Company, were sold to Pearson, which formed a new company called Pearson Education. The name of Silver Burdett is preserved in the Pearson imprint of Silver Burdett Ginn. See www.pearsoned.com. | 2008 |
| Silver Burdett Ginn Religion | See the FOB entry for Silver Burdett Company for the history of Silver Burdett Ginn. In 2007 Silver Burdett Ginn Religion was separated from the rest of Silver Burdett Ginn and sold by Pearson Education to the RCL Benziger division of CFM Religion Publishing Group. See 'Publishers weekly', 7 September 2007, and www.rclweb.com. | 2008 |
| Time Warner Book Group | Time Warner Book Group was established as a book publishing subsidiary of Time Warner. Time Warner Book Group was purchased by Hachette Livre in 2006, and formed the basis of Hachette Book Group USA. See www.hachettebookgroupusa.com. | 2008 |
| Vaughan and Gomme | The publishing firm of Vaughan and Gomme was founded in New York in 1914 by Donald Vaughan and Laurence James Gomme. Vaughan withdrew from the firm in 1914, and it continued as Gomme and Marshall (q.v.) and then as Laurence James Gomme, before Gomme closed the firm and ended his publishing career in 1917. Lawrence James Gomme was born in 1882 and died in 1974. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 163. | 2008 |
| VCH | The German publishing group VCH was acquired by Wiley in the late 1990s. See www.wiley-vch.de. | 2008 |
| Victor Gollancz Ltd | Victor Gollancz founded his publishing house in 1928. It was sold by his daughter Livia Gollancz to Houghton Mifflin in 1989, and then purchased by Cassell plc in 1992. Cassell in turn was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and forms part of the Orion Publishing Group within Hachette. Victor Gollancz is an imprint of Orion. See www.hachette.com and www.orionbooks.co.uk. | 2007 |
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