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Quadrangle Books | The publishing firm of Quadrangle Books was founded in Chicago in 1959. In 1967 the firm was purchased by the New York Times and in 1977 it was renamed Times Books. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 358, and see the FOB entry for Times Books, which indicates that the imprint is presently licensed by the New York Times to the Henry Holt division of Holtzbrinck, now trading as part of Macmillan. See us.macmillan.com/HenryHolt.aspx.
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Pyramid Books | The publishing firm of Pyramid Books was founded by Alfred R. Plaine and Matthew Huttner in 1949. In 1975 the firm was acquired by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and its name changed to Jove Books. In 1979 Jove Books was purchased from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich by the Putnam Berkley Group. See the FOB entry for the Putnam Berkley Group, which indicates that the firm was acquired by Penguin in 1997, and is now part of the Pearson Group. See us.penguingroup.com.
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Putnam Media | Putnam Media was founded by Colonel Russell L. Putnam in Illinois in the 1930s as a food processing publisher. Since 1973 it has been run by members of the Cappelletti family. Putnam Media has no connection with the firms of G. P. Putnam, Putnam Berkley or Penguin Putnam. See www.putnam.net. | 2008 |
Putnam Berkley | The firm of Putnam Berkley came into existence in 1965, when G. P. Putnam's Sons acquired Berkley Books. Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
Purnell & Sons | The firm of Purnell & Sons was acquired by Robert Maxwell and became one of the component parts of the British Printing Corporation in 1964. Thereafter the Purnell firm and its titles were closely associated with the firm of Macdonald up to and after the break-up of the Robert Maxwell empire. See the FOB entry for Macdonald & Co. The recommended approach is to proceed on a title-by-title basis. Educational titles are likely to be with Pearson Education; children's books are likely to be with Hodder Children's Books; other titles may be with Little, Brown. See www.pearsoned.com; www.hodderchildrens.co.uk; and www.littlebrown.co.uk. | 2008 |
Psychology Press | Psychology Press is now a member of the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.psypress.co.uk and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2006 |
Psychological Corporation | The Psychological Corporation was purchased by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1970 and subsequently became part of Harcourt Assessment. In 2008 Harcourt Assessment was sold by Reed Elsevier to Pearson. See www.harcourtassessment.com and pearsonassess.com. | 2008 |
Propyläen Verlag | Propyläen Verlag was founded in 1919 as a publishing subsidiary of Ullstein Verlag. See the FOB entry for Ullstein, which indicates that in 2003 it was sold to Bonnier AB of Stockholm. Propyläen is still used as an Ullstein imprint. See www.bonnier.com and www.ullsteinbuchverlage.de. | 2008 |
Prophetic Catalogue | The publishing list of the Prophetic Catalogue was purchased by M. Witmark & Sons in 1892. See the FOB entry for M. Witmark & Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com. | 2007 |
Promissor | The firm of Promissor was purchased by Pearson Education from Houghton Mifflin Company in January 2006. See www.pearsoned.com. | 2008 |
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| Quorum Books | Quorum Books was an imprint founded by Greenwood Publishing Group in 1979. See the FOB entry for Greenwood Publishing Group, which indicates that from 2008 the firm is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.greenwood.com and www.hmhco.com. The use of the name Quorum Books was discontinued from 2002, when Quorum was absorbed into Praeger (q.v.). | 2008 |
| R. & L. Locker | R. & L. Locker was the publishing firm of Raymond and Lilian Locker, founded in Hanley in the early 1940s. In January 1954 R. & L. Locker "suddenly ceased trading". See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), p. 26. | 2008 |
| R. F. Fenno and Company | R. F. Fenno founded his publishing firm in New York in 1885. In 1929 Fenno retired from the firm and it was renamed Diehl, Landau and Pettit (q.v.). Diehl, Landau and Pettit subsequently became the Landau Book Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 161, which names Louis Landau as the President of the firm in 1986. | 2009 |
| R. G. Berford Company | R. G. Berford Company was a publishing firm founded in Phildelphia around 1840. There was also an occasional New York office. The firm went out of business around 1844. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 51. | 2009 |
| R. H. Russell and Son | Robert H. Russell founded his publishing firm in New York in 1888, in association with his son Robert Jr. The firm began with the purchase of the A. T. B. DeWitt Publishing Company. In 1903 the firm was acquired by Harper and Brothers (later Harper and Row). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 407; 'Publishers Weekly' 63 (28 March 1903); and the FOB entry for Harper and Row. | 2009 |
| R. R. Bowker | The publishing, bibliographical and ISBN firm of R. R. Bowker was founded in the 1870s. In 1967 the firm was acquired by the Xerox Corporation, which sold it to Reed International (later Reed Elsevier) in 1985. While owned by Reed Elsevier, the firm often traded as Bowker-Saur. In 2001 Bowker was sold by Reed Elsevier to Cambridge Information Group. See www.bowker.com. | 2008 |
| R. S. Peale and Company | R. S. Peale and Company was one of several publishing houses which merged in 1892 to form the Werner Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 480 and see the FOB entry for the Werner Company.
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| Rabbit Ears | The firm of Rabbit Ears Productions was founded by Mark Sottnick in 1985. The firm passed through various management arrangements, including a distribution agreement with Simon & Schuster and ownership by Microleague Multimedia, before it was purchased in 2006 by Listening Library, the children's division of Random House Audio, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/audio. | 2008 |
| Rainbird Publishing Group | Rainbird was bought by Penguin UK in March 1985. Penguin UK is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com. | 2008 |
| Random Century | Random House UK was known as the "Random Century Group Limited" from 1989 to 1992, when it was renamed "Random House UK Limited". 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 |
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