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Hill Publishing Company	John A. Hill began working in publishing in the 1880s, as an editor at 'Locomotive Engineer'. The Hill Publishing Company was incorporated in 1902. In 1909 McGraw Publishing Company and Hill Publishing Company merged to form the McGraw-Hill Book Company. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
Hollis and Carter Ltd	Hollis and Carter was part of the the Bodley Head publishing house from 1962 until 1987. The Bodley Head was sold 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.	2008
Holloway House Publishing Company	Holloway House Publishing Company was founded in Los Angeles in 1961. The firm was acquired by Kensington Books in 2008. See www.kensingtonbooks.com.	2008
Hopwood & Crew	The firm of Hopwood & Crew was founded in 1860. In 1906 it was merged with Eugene Ascherberg & Co. to form Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew. See the FOB entry for Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew, which indicates that any surving rights will belong to Warner Chappell Music. See www.warnerchappell.co.uk.	2007
Houghton, Osgood and Company	Houghton, Osgood and Company was one of numerous predecessor firms of Houghton Mifflin. The firm was formed in 1878 by a merger of Hurt & Houghton and James R. Osgood and Company. In 1880 James R. Osgood withdrew from the firm to re-form his own company and Henry Houghton and George Mifflin formed Houghton Mifflin, absorbing the debts of Houghton, Osgood and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 219-220 & 341-347 and see the Company History page of www.hmco.com.	2009
Hutchinson	George Hutchinson founded his publishing company in 1887 and it remained a family firm until it was sold to London Weekend Television in 1979. In 1985 London Weekend Television sold Hutchinson to Century and the firm of Century Hutchinson was formed. Century Hutchinson was purchased by Random House UK in 1989. 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
IBC Business Publishing	IBC Business Publishing is now part of the T&F Informa Group. See www.ibcbuspub.co.uk and www.informa.com.	2006
Increase Cooke and Company	Increase Cooke founded his bookselling and publishing firm in New Haven, Connecticut in 1802. The firm ceased publishing in 1813 and Cooke died the following year. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 103.	2009
Intext, Inc.	Intext, Inc. was founded around 1900 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The firm's original name was International Textbook Company. In 1974 Intext was purchased by Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., which in turn was purchased by Harper & Row (now HarperCollins) in 1978. HarperCollins is a division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2006
Irwin P. Beadle and Company	The publishing firm of Irwin P. Beadle and Company was founded by Irwin Beadle and Robert Adams in 1859, and forms part of the complex of firms usually described as Beadle and Adams (q.v.). Several times Irwin Beadle separated from the main firm, founding a second Irwin P. Beadle and Company in 1862 (sold to George Munro in 1864) and a third Irwin P. Beadle and Company from 1865 to 1867. See www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 43-46.	2009

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