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| Options Publishing | Options Publishing was founded as an educational publishing firm in Merrimack, New Hampshire in 1993. In 2004 the firm was acquired by Haights Cross Communications, Inc., and incorporated as a subsidiary into Triumph Learning LLC. See www.haightscross.com and www.optionspublishing.com. | 2008 |
| Orion Press | Orion Press was a small publisher based in New York in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1965 the firm was bought by Grossman Publishers. See the FOB entry for Grossman, which indicates that the firm is now part of Viking, which is part of Penguin USA, which in turn is part of the Pearson Group. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 167-168. | 2008 |
| Orion Publishing Group Ltd | The following passage is taken from the Orion website (http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/history.aspx): "The Orion Publishing Group Limited was founded in 1991. Soon after incorporation, Orion began negotiations with Lord Weidenfeld and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson as the nucleus of a new, entrepreneurial publishing group." The Orion Publishing Group was bought by Hachette in 1998, but continues to trade under its own name. | 2008 |
| Oryx Press | Oryx Press was founded by Phyllis Steckler in 1975 as an independent reference publisher. In 2000 the firm was purchased by Greenwood Press, which at that time was owned by Reed Elsevier. See 'Library Journal', 27 November 2000. From 2008, the Greenwood Publishing Group (including Oryx Press) is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.greenwood.com and www.hmhco.com. | 2008 |
| Outing Publishing Company | Outing Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1905 by James K. Reeve. In 1909 the firm went bankrupt, but it was later reconstituted and in 1918 its book list was purchased by Macmillan. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 267 and www.macmillan.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 |
| P. F. Collier & Son | 'Collier's Weekly' was founded in 1888 (as 'Collier's Once A Week') and formed the early basis of the publishing house of P. F. Collier & Son. Peter Fenelon Collier died in 1909. In 1919 P. F. Collier & Son was purchased by Crowell and the firm was renamed Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. Crowell-Collier was purchased by the Macmillan Company of New York in 1960. The Crowell-Collier business and imprints formed part of the purchase of Macmillan Inc. by Simon & Schuster in 1994. See www.simonsays.com. | 2006 |
| P. J. Kenedy and Sons | The publishing firm of P. J. Kenedy was founded in New York in 1866 as the successor firm to John Kenedy and Son (q.v.), on the death of John Kenedy. The firm was initially in the sole ownership of Patrick John Kenedy. His sons Arthur and Lewis Kenedy became directors of the firm in 1904 and it was renamed P. J. Kenedy and Sons. P. J. Kenedy died in 1906. In 1969 the firm was acquired by Macmillan Inc. of New York and the use of its name came to an end around 1982. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 237-239, and see the FOB entry for Macmillan Inc. | 2009 |
| Padell Publishing Company | Padell Publishing Company was founded by Max Padell around 1938 in New York. After Max Padell's death the firm was continued by his grandson Avram C. Freedberg, but went out of business in 1981. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 270. | 2008 |
| Palgrave Macmillan | Palgrave Macmillan is an academic publishing imprint of Macmillan. Since 1999, Macmillan has been wholly owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2009 |
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