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Methuen Children's Books	The Methuen website (www.methuen.co.uk) confirms that Methuen Children's Books is now owned not by Methuen but by Egmont. See www.egmont.co.uk.	2008
Mills & Boon Ltd	The publishing firm of Mills & Boon was founded by Gerald Mills and Charles Boon in 1908. In 1971 the firm was purchased by Harlequin Enterprises Limited of Toronto. The official name of the firm is now Harlequin Mills & Boon, but the imprint Mills & Boon is still used. See www.millsandboon.co.uk.	2007
Minton, Balch and Company	The publishing firm of Minton, Balch and Company was founded by Melville Minton and Earle H. Balch in New York in 1924. In 1930 the firm merged with G. P. Putnam's Sons and both Minton and Balch took up senior positions at Putnam. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 237 and see the FOB entry for G. P. Putnam's Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of Penguin USA, which in turn is owned by Pearson. See us.penguingroup.com.	2008
Mitchell Beazley	Mitchell Beazley Ltd was founded in the 1960s as an independent publishing house. The firm subsequently became part of the Octopus Publishing Group. The Octopus Group was purchased by Hachette in 2001. See www.hachette.com and www.octopus-publishing.co.uk.	2006
Modern Age Books	Modern Age Books was a publishing firm founded in New York in 1937 by Richard S. Childs. The firm went out of business in 1942, when its assets were sold to other publishers, chiefly Viking Press. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 239, and see the FOB entry for Viking Press, which indicates that the firm was acquired by Penguin Books in 1975, and is now part of the Pearson Group. See us.penguingroup.com.	2008
Modern Library	The Modern Library was founded as an imprint of Boni and Liveright (q.v.) in New York in 1917. Its original name was The Modern Library of the World's Best Books. In 1925 the Modern Library was purchased from Boni and Liveright by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. In 1927 Cerf and Klopfer changed the name of the firm to Random House. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 242-245; the FOB entry for Random House; and www.randomhouse.com.	2008
Muller, Blond & White Ltd	The firm of Muller, Blond & White Ltd was formed in the 1980s by the merger of Blond & Briggs Ltd and Frederick Muller Ltd. See the FOB entries for these two firms, which are now part of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Museum Street Buildings Ltd	The firm of Museum Street Buildings Ltd formed part of Messrs George Allen & Unwin. See the FOB entry for George Allen & Unwin, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to HarperCollins.	2006
National Book Company	The National Book Company was founded in 1958 by Sam Moore. In 1969 it was incorporated into Thomas Nelson Publishers, the US subsidiary of Thomas Nelson, when that subsidiary was purchased by Sam Moore from the Thomson Organization. Thomas Nelson Publishers is based in Nashville. See www.thomasnelson.com.	2008
Nexus Books	Nexus was founded as an imprint of Virgin Books as a publisher of erotic fiction. See the FOB entry for Virgin Books, which indicates that the firm is now owned by the Random House Group.	2008

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