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| Beacon Press | There have been several printing and publishing firms called Beacon Press. The American Unitarian Association began publishing in its own name in 1854 and began using the name Beacon Press in 1902 (now under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 42 and www.beacon.org. For a British firm with this name see www.beaconpress.co.uk. | 2009 |
| Beechurst Press | According to the obituary of Thomas Yoseloff by his daughter Tamar Yoseloff, 'The Guardian', 13 February 2008, Beechurst Press was Thomas Yoseloff's first solo publishing venture, and was founded in 1939. See the FOB entry for Thomas Yoseloff, Inc. | 2008 |
| Belhaven Press | The publishing firm of Belhaven Press was purchased by Wiley from Pinter Publishers in 1993. See www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| Belitha Press | Belitha Press was founded as a publishing firm specialising in educational and international subjects. In 2001 the firm was taken over by Chrysalis Books, and in 2003 Chrysalis stopped using the Belitha imprint (see 'The Bookseller', 11 April 2003). In 2005 Chrysalis Books became Anova Books. See www.anovabooks.com. | 2009 |
| Belmont-Tower Books | Belmont Books was purchased by Tower Books in 1969. The imprints at first continued separately but from 1973 they were merged as Belmont-Tower Books. The firm went bankrupt in the early 1980s and its assets were sold at a bankruptcy sale in August 1982. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 361. | 2008 |
| Berkley Books | The firm of Berkley Books (also known as the Berkley Publishing Corporation) was founded in 1955. In 1965 the firm was acquired by G. P. Putnam's Sons and became part of Putnam Berkley. Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com and us.penguin.com. | 2008 |
| Bios Scientific Publishers Ltd | Bios (or BIOS) Scientific Publishers Ltd was founded in 1989, and was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 2003. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2008 |
| Blackbirch Press | Blackbirch Graphics was founded in 1979 and became Blackbirch Press in 1992. The firm was purchased in 2001 by the Thomson Gale division of the Thomson Corporation. See www.gale.com. | 2006 |
| Blaisdell Publishing Company | Blaisdell Publishing Company operated from Waltham, Massachusetts until the late 1960s, when it became Ginn-Blaisdell. See the FOB entry for Ginn-Blaisdell, which indicates that all rights are now owned by Wiley. See www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| Blandford Press Ltd | Blandford Press of London was owned in the 1980s by Link House Books and then by United Newspapers. In 1986-87 it was purchased by Cassell from United Newspapers. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell. Blandford Press is now part of the Octopus Group. | 2009 |
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