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Abelard-Schuman, Inc.	Abelard-Schuman, Inc. was founded in New York in 1953 by the merger of Abelard Press and Henry Schuman, Inc. (q.v.). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 3. The firm was acquired by the International Textbook Company (later Intext) in 1969. In 1974 Intext was purchased by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., which in turn was purchased by Harper & Row (now HarperCollins) in 1978. HarperCollins is a division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2008
Academic Press	Academic Press was founded by Walter Johnson and Kurt Jacoby in 1942. It was acquired by the Harcourt Group (formerly part of Reed-Elsevier) and after the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008 it remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com.	2008
Alan R. Liss, Inc.	Alan R. Liss founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1971. In 1989 the firm was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com.	2008
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.	Alfred A. Knopf founded his publishing house in New York in 1915. The library and archive of the firm were acquired by the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, in 1959. In 1960 the firm was sold to Random House, which is now owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/knopf and www.bertelsmann.com.	2009
Alfred H. King, Inc.	Alfred H. King, Inc. was a publishing firm in New York in the early 1930s. In 1935 the firm was purchased by Julian Messner. See the FOB entry for Julian Messner, Inc., which indicates that the firm was acquired by Simon & Schuster in the 1960s. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 235-237 and www.simonsays.com.	2008
Appleton & Lange, Inc.	The medical publishing firm of Appleton & Lange, Inc. was purchased by McGraw-Hill from Pearson plc in 1999. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2009
Applied Medical Informatics	The Salt Lake City firm of Applied Medical Informatics (AMI) was purchased by C. V. Mosby in 1997. Mosby became part of Reed Elsevier in 2001. See the FOB entry for Mosby and www.reed-elsevier.com.	2006
Ardsley House Publishers, Inc.	Ardsley House Publishers, Inc. was a publisher of college textbooks. In 1998 the firm was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Aslib	Aslib was founded in 1924 as the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux. In December 2004 Aslib went into liquidation. In 2005 its titles, name and rights were acquired by Routledge Reference, which is a division of Taylor & Francis. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
Astor-Honor, Inc.	The publishing firm of McDowell, Obolensky was founded in New York in 1957 by David McDowell and Ivan Obolensky. In 1960 McDowell left the firm, which continued as Ivan Obolensky, Inc. In 1967 the firm was reconstituted as Astor-Honor, Inc., publishing Astor Books and Honor Books. Astor-Honor went out of business in 1968. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 229-231.	2008

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