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| Rainbird Publishing Group | Rainbird was bought by Penguin UK in March 1985. Penguin UK is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
| Regnery Publishing | Regnery Publishing was founded as a new firm in 1977 by Henry Regnery, shortly after he had sold the Henry Regnery Company (q.v.). The new firm was briefly known as Regnery Gateway. In 1993 the firm was acquired by Eagle Publishing. See www.regnery.com/eagle.html. | 2008 |
| Reilly and Britton Publishing Company | The Madison Book Company was founded in Chicago in 1902 by Frank K. Reilly and Sumner C. Britton. In 1904 the firm's name was changed to Reilly and Britton Publishing Company. Britton left the firm in 1916, and from 1919 William F. Lee became a full partner and the firm became Reilly and Lee Publishing Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 315-316, and see the FOB entry for Reilly and Lee, which indicates that the successor firms now belong to McGraw-Hill (www.mcgraw-hill.com). | 2008 |
| Reilly and Lee Publishing Company | Reilly and Lee Publishing Company was formed in 1919 as the successor company to Reilly and Britton (q.v.). In 1957 Reilly and Lee was acquired by the Henry Regnier Company, which became known as Contemporary Books from 1977. Contemporary Books was acquired by the Tribune Company in 1993, and in 1996 became part of NTC/Contemporary. NTC/Contemporary was acquired by McGraw-Hill in 2000 as part of its purchase of Tribune Education. See www.mcgraw-hill.com. | 2008 |
| Reiman Publications LLC | Reiman Publications LLC was established as a publisher of books on cooking, gardening and lifestyle subjects. In 2002 the firm was acquired by Reader's Digest Association. In 2007 Reader's Digest Association was purchased by the private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings LLC. See www.rd.com. | 2008 |
| Republic of Texas Press | Republic of Texas Press was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Group in 2002 and now forms part of Taylor Trade Publishing. See www.rlpgtrade.com. | 2008 |
| Richard Marek Publishers, Inc. | Richard Marek Publishers, Inc. was established as an autonomous imprint of Putnam Berkley in New York in 1977. In 1981 Richard Marek closed down the firm and moved to St Martin's Press where he used the imprint of Richard Marek Books. In 1985 he became President of E. P. Dutton and Company (q.v.), where he did not arrange his own imprint. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 222, and Richard Marek's webpage with the Independent Editors Group: www.bookdocs.com/richard_marek.htm. | 2008 |
| Richview Press | Richview Press was a name briefly used by the Irish publishing house of Browne and Nolan around 1970. See the FOB entry for Browne and Nolan, which indicates that any surviving rights will belong to the Educational Company of Ireland, part of the Smurfit Kappa Group. See www.edco.ie and www.smurfitkappa.com. | 2007 |
| Rigby | Rigby is a long-established educational publisher. Rigby International was purchased by Reed in 1988 and Rigby Education in 1991. The firms were then mostly part of the Harcourt Achieve division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Achieve was purchased by Houghton Mifflin in 2007, and is now part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See rigby.harcourtachieve.com and www.hmhco.com. Some parts of Rigby were within Harcourt Education International and were acquired by Pearson in 2008. The Rigby imprint is used by Heinemann Educational (www.heinemann.co.uk) and, for example, Rigby Australia is part of Pearson Education Australia (www.pearsoned.com.au). | 2008 |
| Riverside Press | The Riverside Press was a publishing firm founded by Henry Houghton in 1852. In 1872 George Mifflin became a partner in the firm. In 1880 the Riverside Press merged with the remnants of the firms of Ticknor and Fields and Houghton, Osgood and Company to form Houghton Mifflin and Company. See www.hmco.com. | 2009 |
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