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Schocken Books	Schocken Books was founded by Salman Schocken in Germany in 1931. The firm began publishing in the USA in 1945, and was purchased by Random House in 1987. Random House is now owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/schocken and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Scholar, Inc.	The firm of Scholar, Inc. was purchased by Pearson Education in 2003. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
Scholastic Coach	Scholastic Coach was the title of a magazine launched by Scholastic, Inc. in 1931. See www.scholastic.com, which states "Today, the renamed Coach and Athletic Director is Scholastic's oldest and longest continually published magazine".	2008
Scolar Press	Scolar Press was run by Dr Robin Alston from 1966 to 1973. See Dr Alston's account of the sale of Scolar Press to Bemrose at www.r-alston.co.uk/Scolarexperience.htm. The following sentence is taken from Dr Alston's website: "The imprint was acquired by Gower in Aldershot; Gower was then swallowed by Ashgate; and as far as I can tell the Scolar imprint has completely disappeared."	2007
Scott and Seltzer	The publishing firm of Scott and Seltzer was founded in New York in 1919 by Temple Scott and Thomas Seltzer. In 1920 Scott left and the firm continued as Thomas Seltzer, Inc. The firm became the publisher of D. H. Lawrence, E. E. Cummings and Marcel Proust, but was pursued by the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and came close to bankruptcy. In 1926 the firm's publishing business was acquired by Albert and Charles Boni, who continued with occasional use of the Seltzer imprint. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 54-57 and see the FOB entry for Albert and Charles Boni.	2008
Scott Foresman	The Scott Foresman imprint was founded in 1889. It is now part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com. The firm of Scott Foresman & Co. was purchased by Time Inc. in 1985 and then sold to Harper & Row in 1989. News Corporation incorporated Scott Foresman into HarperCollins Educational Publishers and then sold HarperCollins Educational to Addison-Wesley in 1996. See the FOB entry for Addison-Wesley, which has been part of the Pearson Group since 1988.	2008
Scripta-Technica	Scripta-Technica was founded as a publisher of scientific journals and scientific translations, especially from the Russian and the Japanese. In 1984 the firm was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com.	2006
Seal Books	Seal Books was founded in 1977 as a partnership between Bantam Books and McClelland & Stewart. Seal Books is now an imprint of Random House Canada. See www.randomhouse.ca.	2008
Seal Press	Seal Press was founded as a publisher of books for women in 1976. In 2007 the firm was acquired by the Perseus Books Group. See www.sealpress.com and www.perseusbooks.com.	2008
Secker & Warburg	Secker & Warburg was founded as Martin Secker in 1910 and purchased by Fredric Warburg in 1936. In the early 1980s the firm became part of the Heinemann Group, which in turn was taken over by Reed International and then by Random House. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com. In 2004 Random House merged its imprints Harvill Press and Secker & Warburg to form Harvill Secker.	2008

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