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Jove Books	The predecessor firm of Jove Books was Pyramid Books, which was founded by Alfred R. Plaine and Matthew Huttner in 1949. In 1975 Pyramid Books was acquired by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and its name changed to Jove Books. In 1979 Jove Books was purchased from Harcourt Brace Jovanovich by the Putnam Berkley Group. See the FOB entry for the Putnam Berkley Group, which indicates that the firm was acquired by Penguin in 1997, and is now part of the Pearson Group. See us.penguingroup.com.	2008
Karl Blessing Verlag	Karl Blessing Verlag was founded by Dr Karl Blessing in conjunction with Bertelsmann in 1996. Dr Blessing died in 2005. Karl Blessing Verlag is now a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH. Random House is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.de/blessing and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Key and Biddle	The publishing firm of Key and Biddle was founded in Philadelphia in 1833 and went out of business in 1836. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 241.	2009
Knight Books	Knight Books was founded as an imprint of the Brockhampton Press of Leicester. Brockhampton Press is now part of the Caxton Publishing Group, and the imprint Knight Paperbacks is still in use by them. See www.caxtonpublishing.com.	2007
Lamport, Blakeman and Law	Lamport, Blakeman and Law was a firm of schoolbook publishers and book distributors in New York. In 1853 the firm was purchased by Smith Sheldon and renamed Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman (later Sheldon and Company). See the FOB entry for Sheldon and Company and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 420.	2009
Lancer Books	Lancer Books was established in New York in 1961, as a subsidiary of Magnum Communications Corporation. Its founding principals were Irwin Stein and Walter Zacharius. In 1973 the firm entered into complex legal proceedings and went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 209-210. Magnum Communications Corporation subsequently had a remarkably varied corporate history under the successive names of Vacation Ownership Marketing; Capital Solutions I; and Fuda Faucet Works. Walter Zacharius went on to become the founder of Kensington Books in 1974 - www.kensingtonbooks.com.	2008
Lawrence Hill & Co. Publishers	Lawrence Hill founded his own publishing firm in 1972, shortly after the sale of his previous firm, Hill & Wang (q.v.). He continued publishing until his death in 1988. After his death the firm became part of Chicago Review Press, where the imprint Lawrence Hill Books is still used. See www.chicagoreviewpress.com.	2008
Lepus Books	Lepus Books was purchased by EP Publishing in 1981 and became an EP Publishing imprint. EP Publishing was purchased by A. & C. Black Publishers Ltd in 1983. A. & C. Black is still trading under its own name (see www.acblack.com), but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing.	2007
Lexington Books	The publishing firm of Lexington Books was founded by D. C. Heath in 1970. The firm was subsequently acquired by Jossey-Bass and sold by them to the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group in 1998. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Link House Books	Link House Books was the parent company of a number of other publishers, including Blandford Press. In the mid-1980s, Link House Books was purchased first by United Newspapers and then by Cassell. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell.	2007

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