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G. B. Zieber and Company	The publishing firm of Burgess and Zieber was founded in Philadelphia in 1843 and became G. B. Zieber and Company the following year. The firm went out of business in 1848. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 502.	2009
G. Putnam Broadway	The publishing firm of G. Putnam Broadway was founded by George Palmer Putnam in 1848. On his death in 1872 the name of the firm was changed to G. P. Putnam's Sons. In 1965 the firm acquired Berkley Books and became known as Putnam Berkley. Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com.	2008
Gaia Books	Gaia Books was acquired by the Octopus Publishing Group (which is owned by Hachette) in 2004. See www.octopus-publishing.co.uk.	2007
George Bell & Sons Ltd	George Bell established his firm in London in 1839. From 1856 to 1875 the firm was known as Bell & Daldy; it then became George Bell & Sons Ltd. It remained a family firm until 1977, when it was sold to Robin Hyman and renamed Bell & Hyman Ltd. In 1986 Bell & Hyman Ltd merged with George Allen & Unwin to form Unwin Hyman. In 1990 Unwin Hyman was sold to HarperCollins, part of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2008
George Webb Bookbinders	The firm of George Webb Bookbinders (including its wholly owned subsidiary Samuel Bagster & Sons Ltd) was sold to Marshall, Morgan and Scott in 1973. 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
Ginn-Blaisdell	Ginn-Blaisdell was the successor company to Blaisdell Publishing in Waltham, Massachusetts from the 1960s. The firm was formerly a division of the Xerox Corporation, but was later acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com.	2008
Golden Books	Little Golden Books and Golden Books were a joint publishing venture between Simon & Schuster and Western Publishing founded in 1943. In 1958 Western Publishing bought out the Simon & Schuster share of the firm. In the 1980s Western Publishing changed its name to Golden Books Family Entertainment. In 1999 the firm filed for bankruptcy. In 2001 all the publishing assets of the firm were acquired by Random House, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/golden.	2008
Gordon & Breach Publishing Group	The Gordon & Breach Publishing Group was founded in 1961. In 2001 the firm was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2009
Grasset	Bernard Grasset founded his publishing firm in Paris in 1907. In 1954 the firm was purchased by Hachette, although it retained editorial independence. In 1959 Grasset was merged with another recent Hachette acquisition, Fasquelle, to form Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, which is still based in Paris. See www.hachette.com and www.grasset.fr.	2006
Greenwillow Books	Greenwillow Books was founded in 1974 as an autonomous children's book division of William Morrow & Company. The founding editor was Susan Hirschman. See the FOB entry for William Morrow & Company, which indicates that in 1999 the firm was acquired by News Corporation and incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com. Greenwillow continues to be used as an imprint by HarperCollins.	2008

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