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Big 3 Music Corporation	Big 3 Music Corporation was formed in 1939 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, bringing together Leo Feist Inc., Miller Music and Robbins Music Corporation. In 1973 Big 3 was acquired by United Artists. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.unitedartists.com.	2007
Blakeman and Mason	The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009
BMJ Books	BMJ Books was founded as the book publishing arm of the British Medical Journal. In 2004 the firm was acquired by Blackwell Publishing (now Wiley-Blackwell). See www.blackwellpublishing.com/bmj.	2008
Bobbs-Merrill Company	The Bobbs-Merrill Company was founded in Indianapolis in 1903 and became one of the most important publishing houses in the USA. In 1958 the firm was purchased by Howard W. Sams, and in 1985 all the Sams businesses were acquired by Macmillan, Inc., which decided to discontinue the Bobbs-Merrill operation. The following paragraph is taken from 'The encyclopedia of Indianapolis', edited by David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows, p. 337: "Macmillan was itself acquired in 1988 by the London-based Maxwell Communications Corporation, and Sams and Que were merged. Shortly before Robert Maxwell drowned in a boating accident, with colossal consequences for his gigantic publishing empire, the Indianapolis entity was sold to Paramount Communications (owners of the movie studio). By then, Paramount owned both the Simon and Schuster and the Prentice Hall publishing houses. The Indianapolis company then became Prentice Hall Computer Publishing, a part of Simon and Schuster ...". See the FOB entry for Prentice Hall, which indicates that the firm was sold by Simon & Schuster to the Pearson Group in 1998 and is now an imprint of Pearson Education. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
Bookmark	Bookmark was a magazine published by J. M. Dent from 1925 to 1932. In 1932 the title was sold to Sir Robert Donald, and from 1935 to 1938 Dent published a house journal called 'Bookmark and Everyman'. See the FOB entry for J. M. Dent.	2008
BookMasters	The bookselling chain BookMasters was acquired by Barnes & Noble in 1979. See www.barnesandnobleinc.com.	2008
Bowen-Merrill Company	Bowen-Merrill Company was an Indianapolis publishing company. In 1903 William C. Bobbs replaced Silas Bowen as part-owner of the firm and the name was changed to Bobbs-Merrill. See the lengthy FOB entry for Bobbs-Merrill, which indicates that any surviving rights will belong to Pearson Education (www.pearsoned.com).	2008
Brashear Music Company	The Brashear Music Company was acquired by Branden Press in 1969. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 64; the FOB entry for Branden Press; and www.brandenbooks.com.	2008
Budd Music Corporation	The Budd Music Corporation was the personal company of the songwriter and lyricist Buddy Kaye (1918-2002). In 1998 the Budd Music Corporation was purchased by Sony/ATV Music Publishing. See www.sonyatv.com.	2007
C. M. Barnes - Wilcox Company	Charles M. Barnes opened his first book store in Wheaton, Illinois in 1873. In 1908 his firm evolved into the C. M. Barnes - Wilcox Company, when John Wilcox became the primary shareholder. In 1917 management of the firm was taken over by C. W. Follett and it was renamed J. W. Wilcox & Follett Company. After the death of John Wilcox in 1923, the firm became the Follett Company. It is now the Follett Corporation. See www.follett.com.	2008

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