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| A. & M. Publishing | A. & M. Publishing was established in 1989 in Guildford as a publisher on pharmaceutical and healthcare subjects. In 2002 the firm was acquired by Wiley Europe. See www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| A. D. Peters | The literary agency of A. D. Peters was founded in 1924. In 1988 it merged with the Fraser & Dunlop agency to form Peters, Fraser & Dunlop (PFD). See www.pfd.co.uk. | 2009 |
| A. Roman Publishing Company | Anton Roman founded his publishing firm in San Francisco in 1860. The firm went out of business around 1888 and Roman became a real estate agent and loan broker. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 400. | 2009 |
| Abbey Press | The publishing firm of Abbey Press was founded in New York probably around 1899. Abbey Press published a wide range of fiction and literary criticism between 1900 and 1903. In 1903 the firm filed for bankruptcy. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 3. | 2014 |
| Abelard Press | Abelard Press was founded in New York in 1948 by Lew Schwartz. In 1953 the firm merged with Henry Schuman, Inc. to form Abelard-Schuman, Inc. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 3, and see the FOB entry for Abelard-Schuman, Inc., which indicates that the firm is now in the ownership of the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. | 2014 |
| Ablex Publishing | Ablex Publishing was founded in 1976. The firm was acquired by Elsevier Science in 1997, and subsequently became part of the Greenwood Publishing Group. See the FOB entry for Greenwood Publishing Group, which indicates that from 2008 the firm is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.greenwood.com and www.hmhco.com. The use of the name Ablex was discontinued from 2002, when Ablex was absorbed into Praeger (q.v.). | 2014 |
| Academic Press | Academic Press was founded by Walter Johnson and Kurt Jacoby in 1942. It was acquired by the Harcourt Group (formerly part of Reed-Elsevier) and after the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008 it remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com. | 2008 |
| Advance Publishing Company | Advance Publishing Company was founded in 1867 as the book publishing arm of 'Advance' magazine, a Congregationalist church weekly based in Chicago. Advance Publishing Company ceased publishing around 1920, although 'Advance' magazine continued in existence and later underwent a number of mergers. Following the union of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1957, the parent church would now be the United Church of Christ. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 4-5. | 2009 |
| AGS Publishing | The firm of AGS Publishing was purchased by Pearson Education from WRC Media in June 2005. See www.pearsoned.com. | 2008 |
| Airlife Publishing | The firm of Airlife Publishing was acquired by the Crowood Press in 2003. See www.crowoodpress.co.uk. | 2008 |
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