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| Associated Book Publishers Ltd | The publishing agglomerate Associated Book Publishers Ltd at different times included Methuen, Chapman & Hall, Spon, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Sweet & Maxwell, Routledge & Kegan Paul and Croom Helm. ABP was purchased by the Thomson Corporation in 1987. See the FOB entries for the individual component firms of ABP, for information as to which have been retained as part of the Thomson Corporation and which have been subsequently sold. See also www.thomson.com. | 2007 |
| Athene Publishing Co. Ltd | The Athene Publishing Co. of Wellingborough and London was closely associated with Thorsons in the 1950s and 1960s. By 1967 the firm was described as a subsidiary of Thorsons. See the FOB entry for Thorsons, which indicates that the firm and its rights now belong to HarperCollins. See www.harpercollins.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Atheneum Publishers | The firm of Atheneum Publishers was founded in New York in 1959. In 1978 the firm was acquired by Charles Scribner's Sons, which in turn was acquired by the US Macmillan company in 1984. See the FOB entry for Macmillan, Inc., which describes the complex arrangements for the break-up of that company after the death of Robert Maxwell. According to the Simon & Schuster website, Atheneum was included in the part of Charles Scribner's Sons which was acquired by Simon & Schuster in 1994. Scribner and Atheneum remain Simon & Schuster imprints. See www.simonsays.com. | 2008 |
| Atlantic Monthly Press | Atlantic Monthly Press was founded in 1917 as the publishing division of the Atlantic Monthly Company. In 1993 the firm was merged with Grove Press to form Grove/Atlantic Inc. See www.groveatlantic.com. | 2008 |
| Austin & Winfield Publishers, Inc. | The legal publishing firm of Austin & Winfield Publishers, Inc. is now part of University Press of America, which in turn is part of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.univpress.com and www.rowmanlittlefield.com. | 2008 |
| Authors' Publishing Company | The Authors' Publishing Company was a cooperative publishing venture begun in New York in 1873. The firm was dissolved in 1880. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 29-30. | 2009 |
| B. W. Dodge and Company | B. W. Dodge and Company was established as a publishing firm in New York around 1903. In 1911 the firm was acquired by William Rickey and Company of New York. There is a brief FOB entry for William Rickey and Company, which went out of business before World War I. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 119. | 2008 |
| Baker, Pratt and Company | 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 |
| Bath Street Press | Bath Street Press was purchased by Thorsons from Marshall Pickering in January 1989. Thorsons was purchased by William Collins later that same year. William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990, and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers. See www.newscorp.com. The Thorsons name is still used by News Corporation, but the name of Bath Street Press has not been used for publishing since about 1988. | 2008 |
| BBC Books | The Random House Group acquired a majority shareholding in BBC Books in 2006, and BBC Books became part of the Ebury Publishing Division of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
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