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Appleton-Century-Crofts	The three component firms of Appleton-Century-Crofts have their own entries in FOB, as D. Appleton & Company, The Century Company and F. S. Crofts Company. In 1960 Appleton-Century-Crofts was purchased by Meredith Publishing Company. The principal parts of the firm were later sold by Meredith. The Appleton division was sold in 1974 to Prentice-Hall, which is now part of Pearson Education (see the FOB entry for Prentice-Hall). The New Century division was sold, also in 1974, to Charles Walther. New Century Publishing was purchased in 1990 by Frank Gil, who changed its name to New Win Publishing. New Win Publishing was purchased by the Academic Learning Company in 2003. See www.academiclearningcompany.com. The archives of Appleton-Century-Crofts are in the Lilly Library, Bloomington, Indiana.	2008
Applied Medical Informatics	The Salt Lake City firm of Applied Medical Informatics (AMI) was purchased by C. V. Mosby in 1997. Mosby became part of Reed Elsevier in 2001. See the FOB entry for Mosby and www.reed-elsevier.com.	2006
Arcadia House	The publishing firm of Arcadia House was founded in 1934. In 1948 the firm was acquired by Crown Publishing Group, part of the Outlet Book Company. The Arcadia House imprint was used until about 1964. See the FOB entries for Outlet and Crown, which indicate that in 1988 the firm was bought by Random House. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/crown and www.bertelsmann.com. See also 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 15.	2008
Archer Press	Archer Press was a publisher of popular fiction, founded in 1948 by Raymond and Lilian Locker. In January 1954 Archer Press "suddenly ceased trading". See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), p. 26.	2008
Architectural Press	Architectural Press was purchased by Butterworths from the Maxwell Communications Corporation in 1988. Butterworths is now a division of Reed Elsevier, also trading as LexisNexis Butterworths. See www.butterworths.com.	2007
Ardsley House Publishers, Inc.	Ardsley House Publishers, Inc. was a publisher of college textbooks. In 1998 the firm was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Arena Publishing Company	Arena Publishing Company was founded in Boston in 1890 by Benjamin Orange Flower, in association with 'Arena' magazine. The firm went bankrupt in 1896. It was restructured in 1897. Flower left the firm and it ceased publishing books, although the 'Arena' magazine continued for some time (the first of many magazines to be called 'Arena'). Flower died in 1918. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 28-29.	2009
Ariel Books	The firm of Ariel Books was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Young (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1953. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2008
Arkana	The Arkana list and imprint were bought by Penguin from International Thomson in 1988. Since that time the imprints of Arkana Penguin, Penguin Arkana and Viking Arkana have been used, as well as Arkana, but with decreasing frequency.	2007
Armed Services Editions	In 1943 the Council on Books in Wartime established Armed Services Editions to publish books for US armed forces personnel. From 1944 the name Editions for the Armed Services was more commonly used. The operation was closed down in 1947. See John Y. Cole (editor): 'Books in action: the Armed Services Editions' (1984).	2008

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