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M. J. Ivers and Company	The publishing firm of M. J. Ivers and Company was founded in New York around 1882. In 1898 it acquired the assets of the firm of Beadle and Adams, including the Dime Library. The firm went out of business around 1905 and its assets were acquired by the Arthur Westbrook Company of Cincinnati. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 221.	2009
M. Witmark & Sons	The music publishing firm of M. Witmark & Sons was established in New York City in 1885. In 1928 the firm was purchased by Warner Brothers Pictures, and it is identified as one of the predecessor firms of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. in the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2007
Macdonald & Co.	The publishing firm of Macdonald & Co. was acquired by Robert Maxwell and became part of the British Printing & Communications Corporation, later the Maxwell Communications Corporation. In 1989, Maxwell sold Macdonald's Children's Books and Macdonald Educational to Simon & Schuster. All the Simon & Schuster educational businesses were bought by Pearson in 1998, forming the basis of Pearson Education. After Robert Maxwell's death in 1991, much of the remainder of the Macdonald firm was bought by Little, Brown UK, while titles published by Macdonald Children's Books were acquired by Hodder Children's Books. See www.pearsoned.com; www.littlebrown.co.uk; and www.hodderchildrens.co.uk.	2008
Macfarlane Walter & Ross	Macfarlane Walter & Ross was a non-fiction publishing firm based in Toronto. In 2000 the firm was acquired by McClelland & Stewart. See www.mcclelland.com.	2008
Macgibbon and Kee Ltd	The publishing firm of Macgibbon and Kee was founded in London in 1949. The firm developed close links with Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd (q.v.) and, like Hart-Davis, was acquired by Granada Publishing (in 1968). In 1972 Granada created Hart-Davis, Macgibbon Ltd, although Macgibbon and Kee remained registered as a company. The archives of Macgibbon and Kee are in the University of Glasgow Library, and the following sentence is taken from their catalogue: "The company appears to have been dissolved in c.1983 when Granada sold its publishing interests to the Scottish publishers William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd, Glasgow." See the FOB entry for William Collins and www.newscorp.com.	2014
Macmillan	Macmillan was founded by the brothers Alexander and Daniel Macmillan in 1843. Since 1999, Macmillan has been wholly owned by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com and see also the separate FOB entry for Macmillan Inc., formerly the US subsidiary of Macmillan.	2008
Mahlon Day	The publishing firm of Day and Turner was founded in New York in 1815 by Mahlon Day and Charles Turner. Turner withdrew from the firm around 1820 and it continued as Mahlon Day until 1846 when Day retired. From 1846 the firm continued as Baker, Crane and Day (q.v.), but it went out of business in 1848. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 114-115.	2009
Manthorne and Burack, Inc.	Manthorne and Burack was a small publishing house in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1945 the firm merged with John W. Luce and Company. See the FOB entry for John W. Luce and Company, which indicates that the merged firm ceased publishing new titles in 1947, and went out of business shortly afterwards. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 214.	2008
Marshall, Morgan & Scott	The religious publishing firm of Marshall, Morgan and Scott merged with Pickering & Inglis in the mid-1980s to form Marshall Pickering. See the FOB entry for Marshall Pickering, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to the Zondervan division of News Corporation. See www.zondervan.com.	2007
Mason, Baker and Pratt	The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009

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