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Broderbund	Broderbund is a specialist software firm which was acquired by Riverdeep in 2002. See the FOB entry for Riverdeep, which indicates that the firm is now part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com.	2009
Broderip & Wilkinson	After the bankruptcy of the firm of Longman & Broderip in 1798, Francis Broderip and C. Wilkinson established the music publishing firm of Broderip & Wilkinson and reissued many of the Longman & Broderip titles. Francis Broderip died in 1807 and the firm continued briefly as Wilkinson & Co., before all its stock and plates were purchased by Thomas Preston. The Preston firm was purchased by Coventry & Hollier around 1834, and much of the business of Coventry & Hollier was purchased by Novello in 1849 and 1851. Novello is now part of Chester Music and Novello & Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.chesternovello.com.	2007
Browne and Nolan	The Irish publishing firm of Browne and Nolan was renamed Longmans, Browne and Nolan around 1969. Longmans, Browne and Nolan was incorporated into the Educational Company of Ireland (EDCO) around 1972. EDCO became a Jefferson Smurfit company and is now part of the Smurfit Kappa Group. See www.edco.ie and www.smurfitkappa.com.	2009
Brown-ROA Publishers	The religious publishing house of Brown-ROA Publishers was acquired by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1994. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace. In 1999 Brown-ROA changed its name to Harcourt Religion Publishers, and Harcourt Religion is now part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com and www.harcourtreligion.com.	2008
Bruce Humphries	The publishing firm of Bruce Humphries was founded in Boston in 1930 when a number of local firms merged, including the Poet Lore Company and the Four Seas Company. In 1971 the firm was acquired by Branden Press. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 73-75; the FOB entry for Branden Press; and www.brandenbooks.com.	2008
Brunner-Routledge	Brunner-Routledge is an imprint of Routledge Mental Health, which in turn is part of the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.brunner-routledge.com, www.brunner-routledge.co.uk and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2009
Buckle Down Publishing	Buckle Down Publishing was founded as an educational publishing firm in Iowa City in 1982. In 2004 the firm was acquired by Haights Cross Communications, Inc., and incorporated as a subsidiary into Triumph Learning LLC. See www.haightscross.com.	2008
Budd Music Corporation	The Budd Music Corporation was the personal company of the songwriter and lyricist Buddy Kaye (1918-2002). In 1998 the Budd Music Corporation was purchased by Sony/ATV Music Publishing. See www.sonyatv.com.	2007
Butterworths	The legal publishing firm of Butterworths was founded by Henry Butterworth in 1818. Butterworths was absorbed into the International Publishing Corporation in 1965, and sold by IPC to the Reed Group in 1970. Butterworths is now a division of Reed Elsevier, also trading as LexisNexis Butterworths. See www.butterworths.com.	2006
C. M. Barnes - Wilcox Company	Charles M. Barnes opened his first book store in Wheaton, Illinois in 1873. In 1908 his firm evolved into the C. M. Barnes - Wilcox Company, when John Wilcox became the primary shareholder. In 1917 management of the firm was taken over by C. W. Follett and it was renamed J. W. Wilcox & Follett Company. After the death of John Wilcox in 1923, the firm became the Follett Company. It is now the Follett Corporation. See www.follett.com.	2008

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