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Abel Tompkins	The publishing firm of Abel Tompkins was founded in Boston around 1838, with strong connections to the Universalist movement. The firm ceased publishing around 1864. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 468.	2014
Allen and Ticknor	The bookselling and publishing firm of Allen and Ticknor was founded in Boston in 1832 by John Allen and William D. Ticknor. The firm was dissolved in 1834. Allen went on to found John Allen and Company and Ticknor ran his own firm for many years before co-founding Ticknor, Reed and Fields in 1849. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 8, and see the FOB entries for John Allen and Company and Ticknor, Reed and Fields.	2009
American News Company	The American News Company was founded in 1864 in New York. In 1969 the firm was renamed Ancorp National Services. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 10-11. From the 1970s the firm concentrated on its food-service and newstand operations and had little to do with the book trade. In 1979 Ancorp was acquired by the French food-service company Sodexho. See 'The changing world of publishing: a special issue of the Journal of Media Economics' (2003), p. 105n.	2013
Arena Publishing Company	Arena Publishing Company was founded in Boston in 1890 by Benjamin Orange Flower, in association with 'Arena' magazine. The firm went bankrupt in 1896. It was restructured in 1897. Flower left the firm and it ceased publishing books, although the 'Arena' magazine continued for some time (the first of many magazines to be called 'Arena'). Flower died in 1918. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 28-29.	2009
Armed Services Editions	In 1943 the Council on Books in Wartime established Armed Services Editions to publish books for US armed forces personnel. From 1944 the name Editions for the Armed Services was more commonly used. The operation was closed down in 1947. See John Y. Cole (editor): 'Books in action: the Armed Services Editions' (1984).	2008
Aslib	Aslib was founded in 1924 as the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux. In December 2004 Aslib went into liquidation. In 2005 its titles, name and rights were acquired by Routledge Reference, which is a division of Taylor & Francis. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
Athenaeum	The Athenaeum magazine was founded in 1828 and continued until 1921, when it was incorporated into 'The Nation'. In the 1920s the title 'The Nation and Athenaeum' was often used. In 1931 'The Nation and Athenaeum' was taken over by 'The New Statesman'. See www.newstatesman.com/nsabout.htm.	2007
Authors' Publishing Company	The Authors' Publishing Company was a cooperative publishing venture begun in New York in 1873. The firm was dissolved in 1880. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 29-30.	2009
Avalon Travel	Avalon Travel was formed in 1999 from a merger of three independent travel publishers: Moon Publications, John Muir Publications and Foghorn Press. (Each has its own entry in FOB.) Avalon Travel is now part of the Perseus Books Group. See www.perseusbooks.com.	2008
B. T. Batsford Ltd	The publishing firm of B. T. Batsford Ltd was founded in 1843. The firm went into receivership in the 1990s and was subsequently acquired by Chrysalis Books. For a few years the imprint Batsford/Chrysalis was used. In 2005 Chrysalis Books became Anova Books, with Batsford as one of its main imprints. See www.anovabooks.com.	2009

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