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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
M. W. Dodd	The publishing firm of Taylor and Dodd was founded by John S. Taylor and Moses Woodruff Dodd in New York in 1839. In 1840 Dodd bought out Taylor and renamed the firm M. W. Dodd. In 1870 the management of the firm was taken over by Dodd's nephew Edward S. Mead and in 1876 the firm was renamed Dodd, Mead and Company. This information is drawn from the catalogue of the archives of Dodd, Mead and Company in the University of Delaware Library. See the FOB entry for Dodd, Mead and Company.	2008
M. Witmark & Sons	The music publishing firm of M. Witmark & Sons was established in New York City in 1885. In 1928 the firm was purchased by Warner Brothers Pictures, and it is identified as one of the predecessor firms of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. in the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2007
Macdonald & Co.	The publishing firm of Macdonald & Co. was acquired by Robert Maxwell and became part of the British Printing & Communications Corporation, later the Maxwell Communications Corporation. In 1989, Maxwell sold Macdonald's Children's Books and Macdonald Educational to Simon & Schuster. All the Simon & Schuster educational businesses were bought by Pearson in 1998, forming the basis of Pearson Education. After Robert Maxwell's death in 1991, much of the remainder of the Macdonald firm was bought by Little, Brown UK, while titles published by Macdonald Children's Books were acquired by Hodder Children's Books. See www.pearsoned.com; www.littlebrown.co.uk; and www.hodderchildrens.co.uk.	2008
Macdonald Publishers	Macdonald Publishers (not to be confused with Macdonald & Co.) was the publishing firm of Callum Macdonald. The firm was based in Edinburgh and published mostly Scottish poetry. Callum Macdonald died in 1999. See the entry in WATCH for his widow Tessa Ransford. The papers of Macdonald Publishers are in the National Library of Scotland.	2008
Macfarlane Walter & Ross	Macfarlane Walter & Ross was a non-fiction publishing firm based in Toronto. In 2000 the firm was acquired by McClelland & Stewart. See www.mcclelland.com.	2008
Macgibbon and Kee Ltd	The publishing firm of Macgibbon and Kee was founded in London in 1949. The firm developed close links with Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd (q.v.) and, like Hart-Davis, was acquired by Granada Publishing (in 1968). In 1972 Granada created Hart-Davis, Macgibbon Ltd, although Macgibbon and Kee remained registered as a company. The archives of Macgibbon and Kee are in the University of Glasgow Library, and the following sentence is taken from their catalogue: "The company appears to have been dissolved in c.1983 when Granada sold its publishing interests to the Scottish publishers William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd, Glasgow." See the FOB entry for William Collins and www.newscorp.com.	2014
Macmillan	Macmillan was founded by the brothers Alexander and Daniel Macmillan in 1843. Since 1999, Macmillan has been wholly owned by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com and see also the separate FOB entry for Macmillan Inc., formerly the US subsidiary of Macmillan.	2008
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
Macrae Smith Company	The Macrae Smith Company was established in Philadelphia in 1925 by Durant L. Macrae and Allan M. Smith as the successor firm to the George W. Jacobs Company (q.v.). Durant L. Macrae died in 1968 and was succeeded as president by Donald P. Macrae. The firm went out of business in 1977. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 216-218.	2008

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