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Adlard Coles Nautical	Adlard Coles Ltd was founded as Robert Ross & Co. Ltd in the 1930s. In 1962 the firm was purchased by Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd, which eventually became part of HarperCollins. Adlard Coles Ltd was sold by HarperCollins in 1990 to A. & C. Black and renamed Adlard Coles Nautical. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black; www.acblack.com and www.bloomsbury.com/uk.	2014
Alaska Northwest Books	Alaska Northwest Books was acquired by Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company in 1993, and the name is still used as an imprint. See www.gacpc.com.	2008
American News Company	The American News Company was founded in 1864 in New York. In 1969 the firm was renamed Ancorp National Services. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 10-11. From the 1970s the firm concentrated on its food-service and newstand operations and had little to do with the book trade. In 1979 Ancorp was acquired by the French food-service company Sodexho. See 'The changing world of publishing: a special issue of the Journal of Media Economics' (2003), p. 105n.	2013
Blackie & Son	The firm of Blackie & Son was founded by John Blackie in 1807. Most surviving Blackie rights now belong to the Pearson Group. The following quotation is taken from the pamphlet 'The firm of Blackie & Son and some of their children's books' by Morna Daniels (1999). "In 1991 the academic titles went to Blackie Academic and Professional and the school titles were acquired by Nelson and Sons, who published them under the imprint Nelson Blackie until 1995 after which they dropped the name Blackie. The children's titles were acquired by Blackie Children's Books, part of the Penguin group at 27 Wrights Lane (owned by Pearsons) but the separate imprint disappeared after 1995 and the same authors appear under the Puffin imprint. Blackie sold the Flower Fairies list to Warne, another Pearson acquisition, in 1989."	2008
Bright Sky Publishing	Houston Non-Profit Publishing, trading as Bright Sky Publishing, announced by Twitter in February 2020 that it had permanently closed.	2021
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
CliffsNotes	CliffsNotes was a series of study notes developed by Hungry Minds, Inc. See the FOB entry for Hungry Minds, which indicates that in 2001 the firm was acquired by Wiley. See www.cliffsnotes.com and www.wiley.com.	2008
Dime Library	The Dime Library was created by Beadle and Adams around 1859. At various times it was known as Dime Novels, Beadle's Dime Novels, Beadle's Dime Books and Beadle's Dime Publications. The assets of Beadle and Adams (including the Dime Library) were acquired by M. J. Ivers and Company in 1898. See the FOB entries for Beadle and Adams and M. J. Ivers and Company.	2009
Doubleday & Company	In 1897 Frank Nelson Doubleday and Samuel McClure founded the publishing house of Doubleday & McClure. From 1900 the firm became Doubleday, Page & Company. In 1927 Doubleday merged with the George H. Doran Company and became Doubleday, Doran. The firm was renamed Doubleday & Company in 1946. Doubleday & Company was purchased by Bertelsmann in 1986, and is now a division of Random House. See www.randomhouse.com/doubleday and www.bertelsmann.com.	2009
E. & F. N. Spon	E. & F. N. Spon (also known as the Spon Press) began publishing around 1850, specialising in engineering and architectural works, and eventually became part of the Routledge Group. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com.	2006

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