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| Prophetic Catalogue | The publishing list of the Prophetic Catalogue was purchased by M. Witmark & Sons in 1892. 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. | 2007 |
| Propyläen Verlag | Propyläen Verlag was founded in 1919 as a publishing subsidiary of Ullstein Verlag. See the FOB entry for Ullstein, which indicates that in 2003 it was sold to Bonnier AB of Stockholm. Propyläen is still used as an Ullstein imprint. See www.bonnier.com and www.ullsteinbuchverlage.de. | 2008 |
| Psychological Corporation | The Psychological Corporation was purchased by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1970 and subsequently became part of Harcourt Assessment. In 2008 Harcourt Assessment was sold by Reed Elsevier to Pearson. See www.harcourtassessment.com and pearsonassess.com. | 2008 |
| Psychology Press | Psychology Press is now a member of the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.psypress.co.uk and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2006 |
| Purnell & Sons | The firm of Purnell & Sons was acquired by Robert Maxwell and became one of the component parts of the British Printing Corporation in 1964. Thereafter the Purnell firm and its titles were closely associated with the firm of Macdonald up to and after the break-up of the Robert Maxwell empire. See the FOB entry for Macdonald & Co. The recommended approach is to proceed on a title-by-title basis. Educational titles are likely to be with Pearson Education; children's books are likely to be with Hodder Children's Books; other titles may be with Little, Brown. See www.pearsoned.com; www.hodderchildrens.co.uk; and www.littlebrown.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Putnam Berkley | The firm of Putnam Berkley came into existence in 1965, when G. P. Putnam's Sons acquired Berkley Books. Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
| Putnam Media | Putnam Media was founded by Colonel Russell L. Putnam in Illinois in the 1930s as a food processing publisher. Since 1973 it has been run by members of the Cappelletti family. Putnam Media has no connection with the firms of G. P. Putnam, Putnam Berkley or Penguin Putnam. See www.putnam.net. | 2008 |
| Pyramid Books | The publishing firm of Pyramid Books was founded by Alfred R. Plaine and Matthew Huttner in 1949. In 1975 the firm was acquired by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and its name changed to Jove Books. In 1979 Jove Books was purchased from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich by the Putnam Berkley Group. See the FOB entry for the Putnam Berkley Group, which indicates that the firm was acquired by Penguin in 1997, and is now part of the Pearson Group. See us.penguingroup.com. | 2008 |
| R. S. Peale and Company | R. S. Peale and Company was one of several publishing houses which merged in 1892 to form the Werner Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 480 and see the FOB entry for the Werner Company. | 2009 |
| Rabbit Ears | The firm of Rabbit Ears Productions was founded by Mark Sottnick in 1985. The firm passed through various management arrangements, including a distribution agreement with Simon & Schuster and ownership by Microleague Multimedia, before it was purchased in 2006 by Listening Library, the children's division of Random House Audio, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/audio. | 2008 |
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