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Pavilion Books	The publishing firm of Pavilion Books was founded in 1981. It became an imprint of Chrysalis Books, and since 2005 has been an imprint of Anova Books. See www.anovabooks.com.	2007
Permabooks	Permabooks was established in 1948 as an imprint of the Garden City subsidiary of Doubleday (q.v.). In 1954 Doubleday sold Permabooks to Pocket Books. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 284-286 and see the FOB entry for Pocket Books, which indicates that the firm now belongs to Simon & Schuster. See www.simonsays.com.	2008
Piatkus Books	Piatkus Books was founded as an independent publisher by Judy Piatkus in 1979. The firm is now part of the Little, Brown group. See www.piatkus.co.uk.	2008
PJB Publications	PJB Publications was established by Dr Philip Brown in 1976, when he bought the magazine Scrip. PJB Publications was sold in 2003 and is now a trading division of T&F Informa UK Limited. See www.pjbpubs.com.	2006
Pocket Books	Pocket Books, described as "America's first paperback publisher", was founded by Robert deGraff in 1939. The firm entered into partnership with Simon & Schuster, and continues as a Simon & Schuster imprint. See www.simonsays.com.	2008
Price Books	Price Books, also known as Spon Price Books, is now part of the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.pricebooks.co.uk and www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2006
Putnam Berkley	The firm of Putnam Berkley came into existence in 1965, when G. P. Putnam's Sons acquired Berkley Books. Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com.	2008
Pyramid Books	The publishing firm of Pyramid Books was founded by Alfred R. Plaine and Matthew Huttner in 1949. In 1975 the firm 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
Quadrangle Books	The publishing firm of Quadrangle Books was founded in Chicago in 1959. In 1967 the firm was purchased by the New York Times and in 1977 it was renamed Times Books. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 358, and see the FOB entry for Times Books, which indicates that the imprint is presently licensed by the New York Times to the Henry Holt division of Holtzbrinck, now trading as part of Macmillan. See us.macmillan.com/HenryHolt.aspx.	2008
Quorum Books	Quorum Books was an imprint founded by Greenwood Publishing Group in 1979. See the FOB entry for Greenwood Publishing Group, which indicates that from 2008 the firm is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.greenwood.com and www.hmhco.com. The use of the name Quorum Books was discontinued from 2002, when Quorum was absorbed into Praeger (q.v.).	2008

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