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Leo Feist Inc.	The music publishing firm of Leo Feist Inc. was founded by Leo Feist (1869-1930). In 1939 Leo Feist Inc. became part of the Big 3 Music Corporation, which in turn became part of United Artists in 1973. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.unitedartists.com.	2008
Lion Books, Inc.	Lion Books was a small publishing house founded by Martin Goodman in New York in 1949. The firm was briefly first known as Select Publications. Both Select Publications and Lion Books used the imprint Red Circle Books. in 1957 Lion Books was acquired by New American Library. See the FOB entry for New American Library, which indicates that in 1986 NAL was purchased by Penguin Group USA. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 211-213.	2008
Listening Library, Inc.	Listening Library, Inc. was founded by Anthony Ditlow in 1955. In 1999 the firm was acquired by Random House, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/audio and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Liveright Publishing Corporation	The publishing firm of Boni and Liveright was founded in New York in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. In 1918 business differences between the founders led to a split and (on the flip of a coin) sole ownership of the firm passed to Liveright. In 1928 the name of the firm was changed to Horace Liveright, Inc., and in 1933 it became the Liveright Publishing Corporation. The Liveright Publishing Corporation was acquired by W. W. Norton in 1974. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 57-63 and www.wwnorton.com.	2008
M. J. Ivers and Company	The publishing firm of M. J. Ivers and Company was founded in New York around 1882. In 1898 it acquired the assets of the firm of Beadle and Adams, including the Dime Library. The firm went out of business around 1905 and its assets were acquired by the Arthur Westbrook Company of Cincinnati. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 221.	2009
Macmillan Inc.	The Macmillan Company of New York was sold by the Macmillan family in 1950-51. After a merger with Crowell-Collier in 1960, the firm became Macmillan Inc. in 1973. Macmillan Inc. was purchased by Robert Maxwell in 1988 and after the collapse of the Maxwell businesses, the firm's ownership was much divided. The largest proportion of the residual rights rests with Simon & Schuster (www.simonsays.com), but Macmillan General Reference was acquired by Wiley; the Macmillan School list now belongs to McGraw-Hill; the Macmillan College list belongs to Pearson; and Macmillan Library Reference belongs to Thomson Gale. The UK Macmillan company, owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, also has a US operation (see us.macmillan.com).	2009
Manthorne and Burack, Inc.	Manthorne and Burack was a small publishing house in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1945 the firm merged with John W. Luce and Company. See the FOB entry for John W. Luce and Company, which indicates that the merged firm ceased publishing new titles in 1947, and went out of business shortly afterwards. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 214.	2008
Marcel Dekker	Marcel Dekker Inc. was founded in New York in 1963. It was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 2003. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
Matthew Bender	Matthew Bender is a legal publisher. The firm was acquired by Reed Elsevier in 1998. See www.bender.com and www.reedelsevier.com.	2006
Michael Imison Playwrights	Michael Imison Playwrights was incorporated into Alan Brodie Representation Ltd in 1997. See www.alanbrodie.com.	2008

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