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| New York Publishing Company | New York Publishing Company appears to have come into existence and gone out of existence in the 1890s. Publications in 1895 are recorded at sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile. | 2009 |
| New York Variety Publishing Company | The publishing list of the New York Variety Publishing Company was purchased by M. Witmark & Sons in 1886. See the FOB entry for M. Witmark & Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com. | 2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Nottingham Group plc | In 1997 Nottingham Group plc and the firm of Philip Harris merged to form a new company called Novara. In 2001 Novara was purchased by Findel plc. See www.findel-education.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Octopus Publishing Group | The Octopus Publishing Group (founded by Paul Hamlyn, and with imprints including Hamlyn, Mitchell Beazley, Conran and Philip's) was purchased by Hachette in 2001. Other imprints previously part of the Octopus Group (such as William Heinemann) had already been sold to Random House in 1997. See www.hachette.com and www.octopus-publishing.co.uk. | 2006 |
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