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K. G. SaurThe firm of K. G. Saur was founded in 1949, with a head office in Munich. K. G. Saur was purchased by Butterworths in 1987 and became part of the Reed Elsevier Group. The firm was sold by Reed Elsevier to Thomson Gale in 2000, and then sold by Thomson Gale to Walter de Gruyter in 2006. See www.degruyter.de.2008
Karl Blessing VerlagKarl Blessing Verlag was founded by Dr Karl Blessing in conjunction with Bertelsmann in 1996. Dr Blessing died in 2005. Karl Blessing Verlag is now a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.de/blessing and www.bertelsmann.com.2008
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. was formed as a company in 1878. Nicholas Trübner formed his company in 1851. The two companies merged to form Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. in 1889. In 1912 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. merged with George Routledge & Sons to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.2008
Kelmscott PressThe Kelmscott Press was founded by William Morris in 1891. The main activities of the press came to an end on Morris's death in 1896, and the firm was closed down in 1898.2006
Key and BiddleThe publishing firm of Key and Biddle was founded in Philadelphia in 1833 and went out of business in 1836. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 241.2009
KingfisherKingfisher was established as a publisher of children's books. In 2007 Kingfisher was purchased by Pan Macmillan, a Holtzbrinck company, from Houghton Mifflin. The firm became part of Macmillan Children's Books. See 'The Bookseller', 12 December 2007, and www.panmacmillan.com.2008
Kingsgate PressThe 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. See the FOB entry for Carey Kingsgate Press Ltd and www.baptist.org.uk. 2008
KlactoveedsedsteenKlactoveedsedsteen was a magazine founded by writer Carl Weissner in 1965 in Heidelberg, Germany. Through his own PANic Press, Weissner published five issues of Klacto from June 1965 to the fall of 1967. A collection of manuscripts, correspondence, production material, and advertisement flyers documenting the publishing of the magazine is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.2025
Knight BooksKnight Books was founded as an imprint of the Brockhampton Press of Leicester. Brockhampton Press is now part of the Caxton Publishing Group, and the imprint Knight Paperbacks is still in use by them. See www.caxtonpublishing.com.2007
Kraus Curriculum Development LibraryKraus Curriculum Development Library was founded in 1981 and developed into KCDLonline. In 2008 the firm was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.2008

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