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| Outlet Book Company | Outlet Book Company was founded in 1933 by Nat Wartels and Bob Simon. The firm is today a division of Random House, Inc., known as Random House Value Publishing. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Oxford Railway Publishing | Oxford Railway Publishing was purchased by Cassell from United Newspapers in 1987. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell. | 2008 |
| Patrick O'Shea | Patrick O'Shea founded his publishing firm in New York in 1854. The firm went out of existence in 1906, the year of O'Shea's death. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 347. | 2009 |
| Republic of Texas Press | Republic of Texas Press was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Group in 2002 and now forms part of Taylor Trade Publishing. See www.rlpgtrade.com. | 2008 |
| Robert O. Ballou | Robert O. Ballou was a journalist, editor and publisher. In 1932 he was briefly vice-president of the firm of Jonathan Cape and Robert Ballou. From 1932 to 1935 he ran his own publishing company, but he wound up the firm and went to work for other publishers including Jonathan Cape and then Viking Press. He died in 1977. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 33. | 2008 |
| Saunders, Otley & Co. | Saunders, Otley & Co. began publishing in the 1820s. The firm eventually became one of the component or subsidiary firms of Chatto & Windus. See the FOB entry for Chatto & Windus Ltd. | 2008 |
| Society for the Publication of American Music | The Society for the Publication of American Music (SPAM) was founded by Burnet C. Tuthill in New York in 1919. In 1969 the society was dissolved and the residue of its music stock was made over to its publisher, the Theodore Presser Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.presser.com. | 2007 |
| Time Out Books | Since 2005 Time Out Books and Time Out City Guides have been published by Ebury Publishing. Ebury is an imprint of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
| University Press of America | The book publishing firm called University Press of America was founded in 1975. The firm is now part of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.univpress.com and www.rowmanlittlefield.com. | 2008 |
| Weldon Owen | Weldon Owen was founded in 1985 as a packaging and publishing company with offices in San Francisco and Sydney. In 2006 the firm was acquired by Bonnier AB of Stockholm, and it is now part of Bonnier Publishing. See www.bonnierpublishing.com. | 2008 |
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