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Orion Publishing Group Ltd	The following passage is taken from the Orion website (http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/history.aspx): "The Orion Publishing Group Limited was founded in 1991. Soon after incorporation, Orion began negotiations with Lord Weidenfeld and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson as the nucleus of a new, entrepreneurial publishing group." The Orion Publishing Group was bought by Hachette in 1998, but continues to trade under its own name.	2008
Osgood, McIlvaine and Company	The firm of Osgood, McIlvaine and Company was established in London in 1891 by James Ripley Osgood and Clarence W. McIlvaine, but it was never an independent company. From the beginning the firm was wholly owned by Harper & Brothers. From 1897 the firm ceased publishing and its titles transferred to Harper & Brothers. See the FOB entry for Harper & Brothers.	2009
Otis, Broaders and Company	The publishing firm of Otis, Broaders and Company was founded in Boston in 1836 by James Otis and Edward R. Broaders. The firm went out of business in 1850. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 348.	2009
Outing Publishing Company	Outing Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1905 by James K. Reeve. In 1909 the firm went bankrupt, but it was later reconstituted and in 1918 its book list was purchased by Macmillan. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 267 and www.macmillan.com.	2008
Outlet Book Company	Outlet Book Company was founded in 1933 by Nat Wartels and Bob Simon. The firm is today a division of Random House, Inc., known as Random House Value Publishing. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
P. F. Collier & Son	'Collier's Weekly' was founded in 1888 (as 'Collier's Once A Week') and formed the early basis of the publishing house of P. F. Collier & Son. Peter Fenelon Collier died in 1909. In 1919 P. F. Collier & Son was purchased by Crowell and the firm was renamed Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. Crowell-Collier was purchased by the Macmillan Company of New York in 1960. The Crowell-Collier business and imprints formed part of the purchase of Macmillan Inc. by Simon & Schuster in 1994. See www.simonsays.com.	2006
Padell Publishing Company	Padell Publishing Company was founded by Max Padell around 1938 in New York. After Max Padell's death the firm was continued by his grandson Avram C. Freedberg, but went out of business in 1981. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 270.	2008
Pantheon Casa Editrice	Pantheon Casa Editrice was an art publishing house founded by Kurt Wolff in Leipzig in 1924. In 1941 Wolff fled Germany for the USA, and in 1942 he became one of the founders of Pantheon Books in New York. See the FOB entry for Pantheon Books and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 270.	2008
Payson and Clarke	The publishing firm of Payson and Clarke was founded by William Farquhar Payson and James L. Clarke in New York in 1924. Clarke sold his share of the company in 1927 and Payson left in 1928, leaving the firm in the hands of Edward K. Warren and Joseph Brewer. In 1930 the firm was renamed Brewer and Warren and in 1932 Brewer and Warren was purchased by Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace & Company, which traces the firm to the formation of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2008, and see the account of Payson and Clarke in 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 277.	2008
Pelligrini & Cudahy	The publishing firm of Pelligrini & Cudahy was purchased by Farrar, Straus & Young in 1953. The enlarged firm became known as Farrar, Straus & Cudahy before becoming Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1964. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2008

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