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Hill & Wang	The publishing firm of Hill & Wang was founded by Lawrence Hill and Arthur Wang in 1956. Hill & Wang was purchased by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1971. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2008
Hogarth Press Ltd	The Hogarth Press, originally founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, was acquired by Chatto & Windus after World War II. See the FOB entry for Chatto & Windus, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to the Random House UK division of Bertelsmann.	2008
Holt, Rinehart and Winston	The publishing firm of Henry Holt and Company was founded in 1866. See 'The house of Holt, 1866-1946: an editorial history' by Ellen D. Gilbert (1993). In 1959-60 the firm merged with Rinehart and Company and the John C. Winston Company to form Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Holt, Rinehart and Winston was purchased by CBS in 1967, and was then divided by sales in 1985-1986. Most of the publishing division of CBS was purchased by Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich in 1986, and Holt, Rinehart and Winston became a Harcourt Education imprint. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace & Company, which indicates that in December 2007 Reed Elsevier sold Harcourt Education to Houghton Mifflin. Holt, Rinehart and Winston is now the Holt McDougal division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008
IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.	IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. was the publishing arm of International Data Group. After briefly being renamed IDG Books / Hungry Minds, the firm was sold to Wiley in 2001. See www.wiley.com.	2008
J. H. Leicester & W. Leicester	The firm of printers and booksellers called J. H. Leicester & W. Leicester went out of existence in 1865. According to 'British book trade archives 1830-1939: a location register' (by Alexis Weedon and Michael Bott, 1996), the deed of dissolution, 1865, is in Worcestershire Record Office (BA 8185/4 (iii)).	2007
J. W. Arrowsmith	The publishing firm of J. W. Arrowsmith flourished in Bristol from 1883 to 1914. Its greatest publishing success was 'Three men in a boat' by Jerome K. Jerome (1889). See John R. Turner: 'Conditions for success as a provincial publisher in late nineteenth-century England', Publishing history 41 (1997). The firm declined after the death of J. W. Arrowsmith himself in 1913. In 1924 it moved from Bristol to London; it returned to Bristol in 1938, and closed down in 1949. Rights in all the J. W. Arrowsmith titles were then sold to J. M. Dent. See the FOB entry for J. M. Dent.	2008
J. W. Parker, Son and Bourne	The firm of J. W. Parker, Son and Bourne was taken over by Longman in 1863. See the FOB entry for Longman, which is now part of the Pearson Group, and www.pearson.com.	2008
J. W. Wilcox & Follett Company	The bookselling firm of C. M. Barnes was renamed the C. M. Barnes - Wilcox Company in 1908, when John Wilcox became the primary shareholder. In 1917 management of the firm was taken over by C. W. Follett and it was renamed J. W. Wilcox & Follett Company. After the death of John Wilcox in 1923, the firm became the Follett Company. It is now the Follett Corporation. See www.follett.com.	2008
J. Winchester	Jonas Winchester ran his own publishing firm in New York from about 1840 to 1844, in association with 'The New World' of which he was joint-owner. In 1844 Winchester sold his interest in the firm to his son Ebenezer and J. W. Judd, and it seems that the firm closed shortly afterwards. 'The New World' ceased publication in 1845. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 494.	2009
Jacaranda Wiley Ltd	Jacaranda Wiley Ltd is the former name used for Wiley operations in Australia. In June 1999 the company name was changed from Jacaranda Wiley Ltd to John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. See www.johnwiley.com.au.	2008

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