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| Coughlan Publishing | The children's book publisher Coughlan Publishing announced in 2007 that it would be doing business under the new name of Capstone Publishers. See Press Release dated 20 September 2007 at www.capstonepress.com and www.capstonepub.com. | 2008 |
| Courier Printing & Publishing Company Limited | The Courier Printing & Publishing Company is a long-established firm in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. The firm is now part of the Northcliffe Newspapers Group Limited. See www.thisisnorthcliffe.co.uk. | 2007 |
| Covici-McGee | The bookselling and publishing firm of Covici-McGee was founded by Pascal Covici and William McGee in New York in 1922. The imprint of Pascal Covici was also used. In 1928 the firm was reconfigured as Covici-Friede. See the FOB entry for Covici-Friede, which indicates that any surviving rights would belong to Random House, and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 92. | 2008 |
| Coward-McCann Publishing Company | Coward-McCann Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1928 by Thomas R. Coward and James A. McCann. In 1936 the firm became an autonomous subsidiary of G. P. Putnam's Sons (later Putnam Berkley). John Geoghegan joined the firm in 1956, and in 1971 it was renamed Coward, McCann and Geoghegan. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 96-99, and the obituary of John Geoghegan, 'New York Times', 30 December 1999. The firm's autonomy declined after Geoghegan's resignation in 1981, and Putnam Berkley ceased using the Coward-McCann name around 1984. See the FOB entry for G. P. Putnam's Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of the Penguin Group, and owned by Pearson. | 2008 |
| Cowley Publications | Cowley Publications was founded in 1980 as a religious publishing firm. In 2006 the firm was purchased by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group from the Society of Saint John the Evangelist. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com. | 2008 |
| CRC Press | CRC Press was founded as the Chemical Rubber Company, and published its first 'Rubber handbook' in 1913. This is now the 'CRC handbook of chemistry and physics' (84th edition). In 2003 CRC Press was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group from Information Holdings. See www.crcpress.com and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2008 |
| Creative Age Press | Creative Age Press was founded in New York in 1941. The firm was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Young (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1951. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2008 |
| Cresset Press | Cresset Press was founded by Dennis Cohen in 1927. In 1967 Cohen sold the firm to Barrie & Jenkins and it subsequently passed into the ownership of Hutchinson. Like both Barrie & Jenkins and Hutchinson, Cresset Press is now an imprint of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2006 |
| Crown Books | Crown Books (also known as the Crown Publishing Group and Crown Publishers) was founded as an imprint of the Outlet Book Company. See the FOB entry for Outlet Book Company, which indicates that in 1988 the firm was bought by Random House. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/crown and www.bertelsmann.com. | 2008 |
| Cuala Press | The Cuala Press was founded by Elizabeth Yeats in 1908 (see also the FOB entry for Dun Emer Press), and run by her and her family and friends. After the deaths of W. B. Yeats in 1939 and Elizabeth Yeats in 1940, the press ceased publishing in 1946. It was revived in 1969 by Anne Yeats and Michael B. Yeats, with Thomas Kinsella and Liam Miller. The Cuala Press finally closed down in 1986. The Cuala Press archive was donated by the Yeats family to Trinity College Dublin in 1986. | 2008 |
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