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| Hogarth Press Ltd | The Hogarth Press, originally founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, was acquired by Chatto & Windus after World War II. See the FOB entry for Chatto & Windus, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to the Random House UK division of Bertelsmann. | 2008 |
| Holloway House Publishing Company | Holloway House Publishing Company was founded in Los Angeles in 1961. The firm was acquired by Kensington Books in 2008. See www.kensingtonbooks.com. | 2008 |
| Hulton Picture Library | The Hulton Picture Library was founded in 1947 as an adjunct to 'Picture Post' magazine. See the FOB entry for 'Picture Post'. The picture library was sold in 1958 to the BBC, and became known as the BBC Hulton Picture Library. In 1988 it was sold to Mr Brian Deutsch, and in 1996 was sold on to the Getty Communications Group (now Getty Images). See gettyimages.com. | 2007 |
| Hurtig Publishers Ltd | Hurtig was a publishing firm based in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1991 the firm was purchased by McClelland & Stewart. See www.mcclelland.com. | 2008 |
| Hutchinson | George Hutchinson founded his publishing company in 1887 and it remained a family firm until it was sold to London Weekend Television in 1979. In 1985 London Weekend Television sold Hutchinson to Century and the firm of Century Hutchinson was formed. Century Hutchinson was purchased by Random House UK in 1989. Random House UK was known as the "Random Century Group Limited" from 1989 to 1992, when it was renamed "Random House UK Limited". Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Hysteria Publications | Hysteria Publications was founded as a publisher of humorous and women's interest books. In 1998 the firm was acquired by Sourcebooks and it now operates as Sourcebooks Hysteria. See www.sourcebooks.com. | 2008 |
| IBC Business Publishing | IBC Business Publishing is now part of the T&F Informa Group. See www.ibcbuspub.co.uk and www.informa.com. | 2006 |
| Impulse Publications | Impulse Publications was founded as a publishing company in Aberdeen by Paul Harris in 1968. (See also the FOB entry for Waterfront Communications.) The firm has closed, and Paul Harris moved to work as an editor in Sri Lanka and more recently in Shanghai. | 2007 |
| InfoPOEM, Inc. | InfoPOEM, Inc. was founded in Charlottesville, Virginia, as a provider of evidence-based medical information, with POEM standing for "Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters". In 2005 the firm was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| Interscience Publishers | The firm of Interscience Publishers was founded by Maurits Dekker in 1940. In 1961 it was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com. | 2006 |
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