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Facts on File, Inc.	Facts on File is a publisher of reference and educational material. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of Infobase Publishing. See www.infobasepublishing.com.	2008
Frommer's	Frommer's publications, including Frommer's Travel Guides, were published by Arthur Frommer International, Inc. from the early 1960s. After passing through several ownerships, the firm was purchased by Wiley in 2001. See www.frommers.com and www.wiley.com.	2008
Gambit, Inc.	The small publishing firm of Gambit was founded in Boston in 1968 by Lovell Thompson. In 1984 the firm was acquired by Harvard Common Press. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 156-158; 'Publishers weekly', 27 April 1984; and harvardcommonpress.com.	2008
Government Institutes	Government Institutes was the name of a publishing firm founded by Thomas F. P. Sullivan and Glory Sullivan in 1973. In 1998 the firm was sold to ABS Consulting, Inc., who in turn sold it in 2004 to Scarecrow Press, Inc., a division of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.	Greenwood Press was founded as an academic and educational publisher in 1967. The firm was acquired in 1969 by Williamhouse-Regency, then by Congressional Information Service and then by Elsevier (later Reed Elsevier). In 1996 the Greenwood Publishing Group merged with Heinemann Publishing to create Greenwood-Heinemann, which later became part of Harcourt Education. See the entries in FOB for all the firms bearing the name of Heinemann. Greenwood Publishing Group (including Heinemann USA) later became part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and then ABC-CLIO. See www.abc-clio.com/greenwood-authors.	2020
Grolier, Inc.	Grolier was founded in Boston in 1895 as the Grolier Society. See the account of the firm in Mary Lou Roberts & Paul D. Berger: 'Direct marketing management' (2nd ed., 1998). Grolier was purchased by Hachette in 1988. In 2000 most of the Grolier firm (but not its Franklin Watts and Orchard divisions) was acquired by Scholastic, Inc. See 'The Bookseller', 21 April 2000, and www.scholastic.com.	2008
Haworth Press	The Haworth Press, Inc. was officially incorporated in 1978 by Bill Cohen and Patrick McLoughlin. Haworth Press was acquired by Taylor & Francis at the end of 2007. See www.haworthpress.com and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
Hawthorn Books, Inc.	The publishing firm of Hawthorn Books, Inc. was founded by Kenneth S. Giniger in 1952 as a subsidiary of Prentice-Hall. In 1967 the firm was sold to the Clement Stone interests, and in 1977 it was sold on to W. H. Allen. The firm was closed in 1977, but its publishing assets were bought by E. P. Dutton. The imprint Hawthorn/Dutton was then used for a few years. See John Tebbel: 'A history of book publishing in the United States', Volume IV (1981), pp. 318-319, and see the FOB entry for E. P. Dutton, which indicates that the firm is now part of the US Penguin group. See us.penguingroup.com.	2008
Henry Schuman, Inc.	Henry Schuman founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1946. In 1953 the firm merged with Abelard Press to form Abelard-Schuman, Inc. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 3, and see the FOB entry for Abelard-Schuman, Inc., which indicates that the firm is now in the ownership of the HarperCollins division of News Corporation.	2008
Hungry Minds, Inc.	The firm of Hungry Minds published the 'For Dummies' series and other educational works. In 2001 the firm was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com.	2008

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