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| Piccadilly Novels | Piccadilly Novels was an imprint of Fiction House, begun in 1934. See the FOB entry for Fiction House, which indicates that the firm went out of existence in 1959. | 2008 |
| Pickering & Inglis | The religious publishing firm of Pickering & Inglis merged with Marshall, Morgan and Scott in the mid-1980s to form Marshall Pickering. See the FOB entry for Marshall Pickering, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to the Zondervan division of News Corporation. See www.zondervan.com. | 2007 |
| Picture Post | Picture Post magazine was founded by Sir Edward Hulton in 1937 and continued until 1957, when the Hulton Archive was sold, initially to the BBC. The archive was sold by the BBC in 1988 to a private owner, and then was purchased by the Getty Communications Group in 1996. The Getty Communications Group is now known as Getty Images. See gettyimages.com. | 2007 |
| Pitkin Unichrome | Pitkin Unichrome was a heritage publishing firm which was purchased by Jarrold Publishing in 2001. See the FOB entry for Jarrold Publishing, which indicates that from late 2007 the firm is in the ownership of the History Press, Charleston, South Carolina (www.historypress.net). | 2008 |
| PJB Publications | PJB Publications was established by Dr Philip Brown in 1976, when he bought the magazine Scrip. PJB Publications was sold in 2003 and is now a trading division of T&F Informa UK Limited. See www.pjbpubs.com. | 2006 |
| Platt and Munk | The children's publishing house of Platt and Munk was founded in 1921. The firm was acquired by Grosset & Dunlap in 1977. In 1982 Grosset & Dunlap was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons (of the Putnam Berkley Group). Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com and the company history pages of us.penguingroup.com. | 2008 |
| Plaza y Janés | The Spanish publishing firm of Plaza y Janés was founded by Germán Plaza and José Janés in 1959. See www.plaza.es. In 1984 the firm was purchased by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Pocket Books | Pocket Books, described as "America's first paperback publisher", was founded by Robert deGraff in 1939. The firm entered into partnership with Simon & Schuster, and continues as a Simon & Schuster imprint. See www.simonsays.com. | 2008 |
| Poet Lore Company | The Poet Lore Company was founded as a magazine and book publisher in Boston around 1889. In 1930 Poet Lore was one of a number of Boston firms which merged to form Bruce Humphries. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 73; the FOB entries for Bruce Humphries and its successor firm Branden Press; and www.brandenbooks.com. | 2008 |
| Porpoise Press | The Porpoise Press was founded in Edinburgh in 1922. In 1930 the firm was taken over by Faber & Faber, whilst retaining editorial independence. In 1939 Faber & Faber decided to close down the Porpoise Press, whilst retaining its backlist of Scottish literary works. | 2006 |
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