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Baillière, Tindall & Cox	The medical publishing firm of Baillière, Tindall & Cox was founded in 1869, when A. A. Tindall and William Cox purchased the business of the late Jean-Baptiste Baillière. The firm was purchased by Cassell and traded as Baillière, Tindall & Cassell in the 1960s and 1970s. It formed part of the purchase of Cassell by CBS in 1982, and then the purchase of the book-publishing business of CBS by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1986. The Harcourt Group was in turn purchased by Reed Elsevier in 2001. After the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008, Baillière, Tindall & Cox remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com.	2008
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
BET Books	BET Books was founded as the publishing arm of Black Entertainment Television. In 2005 the firm was acquired by Harlequin Enterprises Limited of Toronto. See www.eharlequin.com.	2008
Big 3 Music Corporation	Big 3 Music Corporation was formed in 1939 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, bringing together Leo Feist Inc., Miller Music and Robbins Music Corporation. In 1973 Big 3 was acquired by United Artists. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.unitedartists.com.	2007
Bodley Head	The Bodley Head was founded in 1887 as a partnership between Charles Elkin Mathews and John Lane. John Lane became the sole owner in 1894. In 1956 the firm was bought by Max Reinhardt, who in turn sold it to Random House in 1987. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Book League of America	The Book League of America was founded in New York in 1928 by Samuel Craig. In 1932 the firm was acquired by the Literary Guild. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 63, and see www.literaryguild.com.	2008
Boxtree Books	Boxtree Books was purchased by Holtzbrinck in 1996, and forms part of the Pan Macmillan division of Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2006
California Test Bureau	The California Test Bureau was founded in 1926 as a developer of educational testing systems. In 1965 the firm was acquired by McGraw-Hill. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
Century Company	The Century Company was founded in 1881, initially to publish 'The Century' magazine. In 1933 the firm merged with D. Appleton & Company to form Appleton-Century and in 1948, after a further merger with F. S. Crofts Company, became Appleton-Century-Crofts. See the FOB entry for Appleton-Century-Crofts, which indicates that part of the firm has passed into the ownership of Pearson and part into the ownership of the Academic Learning Company.	2008
Charles T. Dillingham Company	Charles T. Dillingham founded his publishing company in New York in 1875. In 1891 the firm was in financial difficulty but was re-formed as Charles T. Dillingham and Company. In 1896 all the firm's assets were purchased by Baker and Taylor. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 122-124 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009

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