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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
Society for the Publication of American Music	The Society for the Publication of American Music (SPAM) was founded by Burnet C. Tuthill in New York in 1919. In 1969 the society was dissolved and the residue of its music stock was made over to its publisher, the Theodore Presser Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.presser.com.	2007
Standard & Poor's	The firm of Standard & Poor's was founded as a provider of financial information and analysis. In 1966 the firm was acquired by McGraw-Hill. See www.mcgraw-hill.com and www2.standardandpoors.com.	2008
Stein & Buchheister	The music publishing firm of Stein & Buchheister was active in Detroit in the 1850s and 1860s. Its owners were Charles F. Stein and William Buchheister. The firm went out of existence around 1865, when Stein returned to Germany and Buchheister was confined in an insane asylum. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990).	2007
Stein and Day Publishers	The firm of Stein and Day Publishers was founded by Sol Stein and Patricia Day in New York in 1962. In 1989 the firm was forced into bankruptcy. The principal creditor was Bookcrafters (later Sheridan Books). See Sol Stein's account of the legal proceedings in 'Bankruptcy: a feast for lawyers' (1989). The archives of Stein and Day are housed in Columbia University Library.	2008
Stevens & Sons	The legal publishing firm of Stevens & Sons was founded in 1810. In 1950 it was merged with Sweet & Maxwell, which is now part of the Thomson Corporation. See the FOB entry for Sweet & Maxwell; www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.thomson.com.	2006
Stewart Kidd Company	Stewart Kidd Company was a publishing firm based in Cincinatti, founded in 1910. In 1924 the firm was purchased by D. Appleton & Company, later Appleton-Century-Crofts. See the FOB entry for Appleton-Century-Crofts, which indicates that part of the firm has passed into the ownership of Pearson Education and part into the ownership of the Academic Learning Company.	2008
Stone and Kimball	The publishing firm of Stone and Kimball was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1893 by Herbert S. Stone and Hannibal Ingalls Kimball Jr. The firm went out of business in 1897, when some but not all of its assets were acquired by Herbert S. Stone and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 440-443, and see the FOB entry for Herbert S. Stone and Company.	2009
Street and Smith	The publishing firm of Street and Smith was founded in New York in 1855 by Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith. In 1921 it founded a subsidiary firm called Chelsea House (q.v.). When Chelsea House was closed in 1933, Street and Smith ceased to be book publishers but continued to publish magazines and journals. in 1959 the firm was purchased by Condé Nast. The firm continues as a sports magazine publisher. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 444-451 and see www.streetandsmiths.com.	2009
Sutton Publishing	Sutton Publishing was founded by Alan Sutton, and was subsequently in the ownership of Guernsey Press and Haynes, before being bought back by Alan Sutton's NPI Media company in January 2007. See the FOB entry for NPI Media, which indicates that the firm is now in the ownership of the History Press, Charleston, South Carolina (www.historypress.net).	2008

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