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Palgrave Macmillan	Palgrave Macmillan is an academic publishing imprint of Macmillan. Since 1999, Macmillan has been wholly owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2009
Platt and Munk	The children's publishing house of Platt and Munk was founded in 1921. The firm was acquired by Grosset & Dunlap in 1977. In 1982 Grosset & Dunlap was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons (of the Putnam Berkley Group). Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com and the company history pages of us.penguingroup.com.	2008
Progressive Matrices	John Carlyle Raven first published his 'Progressive Matrices' in 1938. His three sons established the firm of J. C. Raven Ltd in 1972. In 2004 J. C. Raven Ltd was acquired by the Harcourt Assessment division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Assessment was purchased by Pearson in 2008. See www.harcourtassessment.com and pearsonassess.com.	2008
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
Richard Marek Publishers, Inc.	Richard Marek Publishers, Inc. was established as an autonomous imprint of Putnam Berkley in New York in 1977. In 1981 Richard Marek closed down the firm and moved to St Martin's Press where he used the imprint of Richard Marek Books. In 1985 he became President of E. P. Dutton and Company (q.v.), where he did not arrange his own imprint. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 222, and Richard Marek's webpage with the Independent Editors Group: www.bookdocs.com/richard_marek.htm.	2008
Riverdeep	The Irish publishing firm Riverdeep was founded in 1995. In 2006 the firm merged with Houghton Mifflin, and was briefly known as Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep or HM Riverdeep. It now forms part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com.	2008
Robbins Music Corporation	Robbins Music Corporation was founded by J. J. Robbins in New York in 1927. In 1939 Robbins became part of the Big 3 Music Corporation, which in turn became part of United Artists in 1973. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.unitedartists.com.	2007
Robert M. DeWitt Publisher	The publishing firm of DeWitt and Davenport was founded in New York in 1848 by Robert M. DeWitt and James Davenport. The partnership was dissolved in 1856, but the firm continued as Robert M. DeWitt Publisher from 1857. DeWitt died in 1877 and the firm went out of existence. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 118.	2009
Robert M. McBride and Company	Robert M. McBride and Company was a publishing firm founded in New York in 1915 by Robert Medill McBride. Its predecessor firms were called McBride, Winston and Company and McBride, Nast and Company (q.v). In 1948 the firm was in financial difficulties and sold sixty of its titles to Dodd, Mead (q.v.). In 1949 the remainder of the firm was sold to Outlet Book Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 224-227, and see the FOB entry for Outlet Book Company, which indicates the firm is today a division of Random House, Inc. (www.randomhouse.com), known as Random House Value Publishing.	2008
Robert Snow Means Co. Inc.	The Massachusetts publishing firm of Robert Snow Means Co. Inc. was purchased by McCorquodale in 1985. See the FOB entry for McCorquodale.	2008

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