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C. W. Bardeen	Charles William Bardeen was a partner in the publishing firm of Davis, Bardeen and Company from 1874 to 1880 and then the owner of the successor firm of C. W. Bardeen from 1880 until it went out of business in 1922. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 39.	2009
Calder & Boyars	Marion Boyars joined the firm of John Calder (Publishers) Limited in 1958, and in 1963 the firm became Calder & Boyars. In 1975 the partnership broke up into the two separate firms of John Calder and Marion Boyars. See www.calderpublications.com and www.marionboyars.co.uk. The Calder & Boyars archive is in the Lilly Library, Indiana University.	2008
California Test Bureau	The California Test Bureau was founded in 1926 as a developer of educational testing systems. In 1965 the firm was acquired by McGraw-Hill. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
Carousel Books	Carousel Books was an imprint of Transworld Publishing in the 1980s. See the FOB entry for Transworld Publishing, which indicates that Transworld is now part of Bertelsmann's Random House Group. See www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
CDG Books Canada	The firm of CDG Books Canada published the 'For Dummies' series and other educational works in Canada. In 2001-02, as part of the acquisition of Hungry Minds by Wiley, CDG Books Canada was acquired by John Wiley & Sons Canada Ltd and Gage Learning Corporation. Wiley was unable to purchase the whole firm because of Canadian regulatory laws, but became the publisher of 'For Dummies' in Canada. CDG Books Canada was closed down in 2002. See ca.wiley.com.	2008
Charles H. Brainard	Charles H. Brainard founded his publishing firm in Boston in 1843. The firm went out of existence in 1845. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 66.	2009
Cherry Tree Books	The British educational publishing firm of Cherry Tree Books was purchased by the Evans Publishing Group from Chivers in 2000. See 'The Bookseller', 28 January 2000, and www.evansbooks.co.uk. There is also a small independent publisher based in Weybridge, Vermont, called Cherry Tree Books (www.cherrytreebooks.net).	2008
Chilton Publishing Company	Chilton Publishing Company (also known as Chilton Book Company) was founded in Philadelphia around 1904. In 1985 the firm was purchased by Capital Cities, and in 1996 Capital Cities was acquired by Walt Disney Company. In 1997 Disney divided the publishing assets of Chilton and sold them to various buyers. The Magazine Division was acquired by Reed Elsevier, and the Professional Automotive Group by the Hearst Corporation. The Consumer Automotive Group was acquired by Nichols Publishing which sold it on to Thomson Learning in 2003. In 2007 Thomson Learning became Cengage Learning. See chilton.cengage.com.	2008
Chivers Communications plc	Chivers Communications was demerged from the Gieves Group and became a separate company in 1999. In July 2001 the firm was acquired by BBC Worldwide. See www.bbcworldwide.com.	2007
Clarion Books	The children's publishing firm of Clarion Books was established in 1965. In 1979 the firm was acquired by Houghton Mifflin and Clarion Books became a Houghton Mifflin imprint. See www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com.	2008

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