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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
Reilly and Britton Publishing Company	The Madison Book Company was founded in Chicago in 1902 by Frank K. Reilly and Sumner C. Britton. In 1904 the firm's name was changed to Reilly and Britton Publishing Company. Britton left the firm in 1916, and from 1919 William F. Lee became a full partner and the firm became Reilly and Lee Publishing Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 315-316, and see the FOB entry for Reilly and Lee, which indicates that the successor firms now belong to McGraw-Hill (www.mcgraw-hill.com).	2008
Reilly and Lee Publishing Company	Reilly and Lee Publishing Company was formed in 1919 as the successor company to Reilly and Britton (q.v.). In 1957 Reilly and Lee was acquired by the Henry Regnier Company, which became known as Contemporary Books from 1977. Contemporary Books was acquired by the Tribune Company in 1993, and in 1996 became part of NTC/Contemporary. NTC/Contemporary was acquired by McGraw-Hill in 2000 as part of its purchase of Tribune Education. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
Resources for Christian Living	Resources for Christian Living (RCL) was purchased by CFM Religion Publishing Group from RCL Enterprises, Inc. in 2007. CFM then merged RCL-Resources for Christian Living with its newly acquired Benziger imprint to form RCL Benziger. See www.rclweb.com.	2008
Reynal and Company	Eugene Reynal left Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1955 and established his own publishing firm in New York. (See the FOB entry for Reynal and Hitchcock for his earlier publishing career.) After Reynal's death in 1968, his firm was acquired by William Morrow & Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 318, and see the FOB entry for William Morrow & Company, which indicates that in 1999 the firm was acquired by News Corporation and incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com.	2008
Richard G. Badger and Company	The publishing firm of Richard G. Badger and Company was founded in Boston around 1896. In 1932 the firm was purchased by Bruce Humphries. See the FOB entry for Bruce Humphries, and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 32.	2009
Riker, Thorne	John C. Riker founded his bookselling and publishing firm in New York in 1832. The firm was renamed Riker, Thorne in 1849 and ceased publishing around 1857. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 391.	2009
Rinehart and Company	The publishing firm of Rinehart and Company (previously Farrar & Rinehart) merged with the firms of Henry Holt and Company and John C. Winston Company in 1959-1960 to form Holt, Rinehart and Winston. See the FOB entry for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, which indicates that the firm is now part of Harcourt Education, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008
Rivington	The publishing firm of the Rivington family was founded in the early eighteenth century. It was sold to Longman in 1890, on the retirement of Francis Hansard Rivington. There was, however, another firm founded by Septimus Rivington which was active in publishing from 1897. The principal Rivington rights remained with Longman. These rights were sold to Evans Brothers in 1962. See 'The Times', 15 August 1962, and www.evansbooks.co.uk.	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

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