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Scholastic Coach	Scholastic Coach was the title of a magazine launched by Scholastic, Inc. in 1931. See www.scholastic.com, which states "Today, the renamed Coach and Athletic Director is Scholastic's oldest and longest continually published magazine".	2008
Scott Foresman	The Scott Foresman imprint was founded in 1889. It is now part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com. The firm of Scott Foresman & Co. was purchased by Time Inc. in 1985 and then sold to Harper & Row in 1989. News Corporation incorporated Scott Foresman into HarperCollins Educational Publishers and then sold HarperCollins Educational to Addison-Wesley in 1996. See the FOB entry for Addison-Wesley, which has been part of the Pearson Group since 1988.	2008
Shapiro-Remick & Company	The music publishing firm of Shapiro-Remick & Company was established in New York City in 1902 by Maurice Shapiro and Jerome H. Remick. The firm was dissolved in 1906, and rights in its catalogue passed to the new firm of Jerome H. Remick & Co. See the FOB entry for Jerome H. Remick, which indicates that Shapiro-Remick and the Remick Music Corporation are now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2007
Sheldon and Company	In 1853 Smith Sheldon purchased the publishing firm of Lamport, Blakeman and Law and renamed it Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman. The firm later traded as Sheldon, Blakeman and Company, Sheldon and Company and I. E. Sheldon, before going out of business in 1898. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 420.	2009
Shepard, Clark and Brown	The publishing firm of Shepard, Clark and Company was founded in Boston in 1855 by Charles A. B. Shepard, H. A. Clark and E. C. Walker. In 1857 Walker was replaced by E. W. Brown and the company was renamed Shepard, Clark and Brown. It went out of business in 1859. Charles Shepard later became one of the founders of Lee and Shepard (q.v.). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 423.	2009
Silver Burdett Company	Silver Burdett Company was founded (as Silver & Co.) in the 1880s as an education publishing house. The firm was purchased in 1985-86 by Simon & Schuster. In 1998 all the Simon & Schuster educational businesses, including Silver Burdett Company, were sold to Pearson, which formed a new company called Pearson Education. The name of Silver Burdett is preserved in the Pearson imprint of Silver Burdett Ginn. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
Small, Maynard and Company	The publishing firm of Small, Maynard and Company was founded in Boston in 1897 by Herbert Small and Laurens Maynard. The firm was in financial difficulty by the mid-1920s. In 1926 it sold some of its titles to Dodd, Mead and Company (q.v.) and in 1927 it was declared bankrupt and went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 426-430.	2009
Smith, Elder & Co.	The firm of Smith and Elder was founded by George Smith senior and Alexander Elder in 1816. It became Smith, Elder & Co. in 1824. In 1917 Smith, Elder & Co. was taken over by the firm of John Murray. See the FOB entry for John Murray, which is now part of the Hachette group.	2009
SparkNotes.com	The study aids website SparkNotes.com was acquired by Barnes & Noble in 2001. See www.barnesandnobleinc.com.	2008
Steck Vaughn Publishing Corporation	Steck Vaughn Publishing Corporation was founded in 1936. In 1997-1998 the firm was acquired by the Harcourt division of Reed Elsevier. In 2007 Steck Vaughn was one of the Harcourt companies purchased from Reed Elsevier by Houghton Mifflin. See steckvaughn.harcourtachieve.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008

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