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| Linkraven | The specialist aviation publisher Linkraven was purchased by Informa (now T&F Informa) in 1999. See www.informa.com. | 2006 |
| 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 |
| List Verlag | List Verlag was founded in Berlin by J. A. List around 1814. The firm was controlled by the List family until World War II. It was subsequently acquired by the Axel Springer group, being part of Econ Ullstein List and then from 2000 to 2003 of Ullstein Heyne List. Ullstein Heyne List was broken up in 2003 and List was sold to Bonnier AB of Stockholm. It is now an imprint of Ullstein Buchverlage. See www.bonnier.com and www.ullsteinbuchverlage.de. | 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 |
| Literary Cavalcade | Literary Cavalcade was the title of a magazine launched by Scholastic, Inc. in 1948. See www.scholastic.com, which states "In 2005, in its 57th year, Literary Cavalcade ceased publication as a print magazine and was incorporated into the www.scholastic.com WriteIt web site". | 2008 |
| Litolff | Litolff is a German music publishing firm founded in 1828. In 1940 the firm was taken over by the publishers Peters of Leipzig (now of Frankfurt-am-Main, Leipzig, London and New York). See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.edition-peters.de. | 2007 |
| Little Blue Books | Little Blue Books were published by the Haldeman-Julius Company from 1923 onwards. See the FOB entry for Haldeman-Julius Company, which indicates that in 1964 the firm was prosecuted for selling books on sex education, and went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 176-178. | 2008 |
| Littlehampton Book Services | Littlehampton Book Services, principally a warehousing and distribution firm, was purchased by the Orion Publishing Group in 1993. The Orion Publishing Group was bought by Hachette in 1998, but continues to trade under its own name. See www.hachette.com and www.orionbooks.co.uk. | 2006 |
| 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 |
| Living Language | Living Language was founded in 1946 in New York as a foreign language self-study publisher. The firm is now part of Random House, Inc., which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/livinglanguage and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
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