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Loujon Press	Loujon Press was the private press of Louise and Jon Webb, and produced collectors' works of authors including Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski. See the account of the firm by Jeff Weddle in 'Publishing history' 58 (2005). Jon Webb died in 1971; in 2005 Louise Webb was living in Slidell, Louisiana.	2008
Macdonald Publishers	Macdonald Publishers (not to be confused with Macdonald & Co.) was the publishing firm of Callum Macdonald. The firm was based in Edinburgh and published mostly Scottish poetry. Callum Macdonald died in 1999. See the entry in WATCH for his widow Tessa Ransford. The papers of Macdonald Publishers are in the National Library of Scotland.	2008
Macmillan Inc.	The Macmillan Company of New York was sold by the Macmillan family in 1950-51. After a merger with Crowell-Collier in 1960, the firm became Macmillan Inc. in 1973. Macmillan Inc. was purchased by Robert Maxwell in 1988 and after the collapse of the Maxwell businesses, the firm's ownership was much divided. The largest proportion of the residual rights rests with Simon & Schuster (www.simonsays.com), but Macmillan General Reference was acquired by Wiley; the Macmillan School list now belongs to McGraw-Hill; the Macmillan College list belongs to Pearson; and Macmillan Library Reference belongs to Thomson Gale. The UK Macmillan company, owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, also has a US operation (see us.macmillan.com).	2009
Mainstream Publishing	The firm of Mainstream Publishing was founded in Edinburgh in 1978. In 2005 the firm formed a publishing partnership with Random House UK, with Random House taking a 50% holding. See www.mainstreampublishing.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Mansfield Press	Mansfield Press, the legal publisher, is now part of Informa Law, which in turn is part of the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. Do not confuse with the literary publisher based in Toronto (www.mansfieldpress.net) nor with the printing firm based in Clifton, New Jersey (mansfieldpress.com).	2006
Marshall Pickering	The religious publishing firm Marshall Pickering was formed in the mid-1980s by a merger of Marshall, Morgan and Scott and Pickering & Inglis. Marshall Pickering was acquired by the Zondervan Corporation, which in turn was acquired in 1988 by Harper & Row (now the HarperCollins division of News Corporation). The Zondervan website states that in 2001 "Zondervan assumed all publishing responsibilities for Marshall Pickering, the HarperCollins UK evangelical imprint". See www.zondervan.com.	2007
Mason, Baker and Pratt	The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009
Mayfield Publishing Company	The California-based educational publishing firm known as Mayfield Publishing Company was purchased by McGraw-Hill in 2000. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
McClure, Phillips and Company	The publishing firm of McClure, Phillips and Company was founded in 1900 after the dissolution of Doubleday & McClure. The founders were Samuel S. McClure and John S. Phillips. In 1907 Phillips withdrew and the firm continued briefly as the McClure Company. In 1908 McClure sold his book publishing interest to Doubleday, Page. See the FOB entry for Doubleday & Company, and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 227-229.	2008
McCorquodale plc	The printing and publishing firm of McCorquodale was purchased by The Print Factory in 2005. See www.tpfgroup.co.uk.	2008

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