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| Shakespeare Head Press | The Shakespeare Head Press was founded by A. H. Bullen and Frank Sidgwick in 1904. Following Bullen's death in 1920, the firm was purchased by the Oxford publishers Blackwell, and the imprint is still occasionally used by the Blackwell organisation. See www.blackwellpublishing.com (this website remains current after Blackwell became part of Wiley in February 2007). | 2008 |
| Sidney's Press | Sidney's Press was founded in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1802 by Sidney Babcock. The firm was in financial difficulties by 1850, and ceased publishing. For about ten years Sidney's Press continued as a bookselling firm before it went out of existence in 1860. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 424. | 2009 |
| Sir Richard Phillips | The bookselling, printing and publishing firm of Sir Richard Phillips (1767-1940) worked closely with the firm of Longman (then Longman, Hurst, Rees and Co.) and was eventually taken over by them. See the FOB entry for Longman, which is now part of the Pearson Group, and www.pearson.com. | 2006 |
| Sleeping Bear Press | Sleeping Bear Press was founded as a publisher of books on golf and for children in the 1990s and had its first success with 'The Legend of Sleeping Bear' in 1998. In 2002 the firm sold off many of its assets, including its golf, sports and regional books, sold to Clock Tower Press. Ann Arbor Press (q.v.) and other selected publishing assets were sold to Wiley at the same time. The remainder of the company was sold to Gale, and Sleeping Bear Press is now an imprint of Gale Cengage. See www.sleepingbearpress.com. | 2008 |
| Society for the Publication of American Music | The Society for the Publication of American Music (SPAM) was founded by Burnet C. Tuthill in New York in 1919. In 1969 the society was dissolved and the residue of its music stock was made over to its publisher, the Theodore Presser Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.presser.com. | 2007 |
| Sphinx Publishing | Sphinx Publishing was founded as a Florida-based self-help law publisher. In 1997 the firm was acquired by Sourcebooks, which still uses the name of Sphinx as an imprint. See www.sourcebooks.com. | 2008 |
| St Martin's Press | After the sale of Macmillan USA, the firm of Macmillan established St Martin's Press in 1952 as its principal US subsidiary. Like Macmillan, St Martin's Press has been wholly owned since 1999 by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2008 |
| Standard & Poor's | The firm of Standard & Poor's was founded as a provider of financial information and analysis. In 1966 the firm was acquired by McGraw-Hill. See www.mcgraw-hill.com and www2.standardandpoors.com. | 2008 |
| Stanley Paul | Stanley Paul left the firm of Hutchinson in 1906 and set up his own publishing company. In 1927, however, the firm of Stanley Paul went into liquidation and it was subsequently bought by Hutchinson. See the FOB entry for Hutchinson, which indicates that Stanley Paul is now part of Random House UK and owned by Bertelsmann. | 2006 |
| Staples Press Ltd | The publishing firm of Staples Press was purchased by Macgibbon & Kee in the early 1960s, and was subsequently part of the Granada Group, where for some time the imprint Crosby Lockwood Staples was used. The archives of Staples Press, with those of Macgibbon & Kee and Crosby Lockwood Ltd, are in Glasgow University Library. Granada Publishing was acquired by William Collins in 1983. See the FOB entry for William Collins, which indicates that any surviving rights will now be owned by the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com. | 2007 |
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