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| Bowes and Bowes Publishers Ltd | Bowes and Bowes Publishers (as opposed to the bookshop of the same name) was part of G. P. Putnam until 1962, when Putnams was purchased by the Bodley Head. The Bodley Head was sold to Random House in 1987. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Browne and Nolan | The Irish publishing firm of Browne and Nolan was renamed Longmans, Browne and Nolan around 1969. Longmans, Browne and Nolan was incorporated into the Educational Company of Ireland (EDCO) around 1972. EDCO became a Jefferson Smurfit company and is now part of the Smurfit Kappa Group. See www.edco.ie and www.smurfitkappa.com. | 2009 |
| C. W. Daniel Company Ltd | C. W. Daniel Company Ltd was founded in 1902 as a Tolstoyan, pacifist and socialist publishing house. The archives of the firm are in the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (www.issg.nl). In 2004 the firm and all its backlist were purchased by Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Capstone Publishing Ltd | Capstone Publishing Ltd was founded in Oxford, UK, as a publisher of professional business and management books. The firm has no connection with Capstone Publishers of Mankato, Minnesota. In 2001 Capstone Publishing Ltd was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| Carey Kingsgate Press Ltd | The 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. The imprint ceased to be used from the end of the 1960s and both the Baptist Missionary Society (now BMS World Mission) and the Baptist Union have since then published under their own names. See www.bmsworldmission.org and www.baptist.org.uk. | 2008 |
| Chancery Law Publishing | Chancery Law Publishing was established in 1989 in Chichester. In 1992 the firm was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| Chancery Software Ltd | The firm of Chancery Software Ltd was purchased by Pearson Education in May 2006. See www.pearsoned.com. | 2008 |
| Chapman and Hall Ltd | The publishing firm of Chapman and Hall was founded in 1830. The firm merged with Methuen in 1938. See Arthur Waugh: 'A hundred years of publishing: being the story of Chapman & Hall Ltd' (1930). With Methuen, Chapman & Hall subsequently became part of Associated Book Publishers. See the FOB entry for Associated Book Publishers. It is believed that any surviving Chapman & Hall rights would belong to the Thomson Corporation and not to Methuen. | 2008 |
| Chatto & Windus Ltd | Chatto & Windus was founded in 1873. The firm grew out of the bookselling business of John Camden Hotten. Chatto & Windus was sold to Random House in 1987. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2006 |
| Chivers Communications plc | Chivers Communications was demerged from the Gieves Group and became a separate company in 1999. In July 2001 the firm was acquired by BBC Worldwide. See www.bbcworldwide.com. | 2007 |
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