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Newton Falls Paper Company	Newton Falls Paper Company was an early acquisition of the McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1920. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
Nexus Books	Nexus was founded as an imprint of Virgin Books as a publisher of erotic fiction. See the FOB entry for Virgin Books, which indicates that the firm is now owned by the Random House Group.	2008
Nicholas Trübner	Nicholas Trübner formed his publishing company in 1851. The company was merged with Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. in 1889 to form Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. In 1912 Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. merged with George Routledge & Sons to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
Nicholson Maps	Nicholson Maps began publishing London Streetfinders in the early 1970s. The firm was purchased by Hutchinson and merged with Geographia in the late 1970s. In 1985 Geographia was sold by Century Hutchinson to Bartholomew, which had recently become a part of News International (now News Corporation). See the FOB entry for Bartholomew, and see www.newscorp.com and www.bartholomewmaps.com.	2006
Nimbus	Nimbus: A Magazine of Literature, the Arts, and New Ideas began publication in December 1951 as a quarterly magazine edited by Tristram Hull for the magazine’s thirteen issues. Hull was later joined by co-editors Ivo Jarosy and David Wright. In 1957 Christopher Logue became co-editor with Hull and the name of the magazine was changed to Nimbus: New English Review. The magazine was published by John Trafford at the Halcyon Press. It ceased publication in 1958. A collection of editorial files for all issues of the magazine except the last are housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
Nonesuch Press	The Nonesuch Press was founded by Francis Meynell and others in 1923. Meynell became the sole rights-owner in 1951. Nonesuch Press Limited was formed in 1953, with representation on the board from the Bodley Head. Nonesuch Press ceased operations in 1968 and Meynell died in 1975. 'A history of the Nonesuch Press' was issued under the Nonesuch imprint in 1981, but distributed by the Bodley Head. See the WATCH entry for Francis Meynell and the FOB entry for the Bodley Head.	2006
Noonday Press	The Noonday Press was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1960. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and became part of Macmillan. See www.holtzbrinck.com and us.macmillan.com.	2008
North Point Press	North Point Press was founded in 1980 by William Turnbull. The firm was purchased by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1992 and is now part of the Macmillan division of Holtzbrinck. See us.macmillan.com.	2008
North-Holland Publishing Company	In 1971 there was a merger of Noord Hollandsche Uitgeversmaatschappij (known in the English-speaking world as North-Holland Publishing Company), Elsevier NV and Excerpta Medica, to form Associated Scientific Publishers. The principal company name was Elsevier. In 1993 Elsevier NV merged with Reed International plc to form Reed Elsevier. See www.reedelsevier.com.	2006
Norwood Press	Norwood Press was formed in 1894 and constituted an alliance between three independent firms in Norwood, Massachusetts: J. S. Cushing & Co., Berwick & Smith and E. Fleming & Co. After World War II, production declined and Norwood Press and its constituent companies had all closed by 1953 [information from the records of the Norwood Historical Society].	2009

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