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R. G. Berford Company	R. G. Berford Company was a publishing firm founded in Phildelphia around 1840. There was also an occasional New York office. The firm went out of business around 1844. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 51.	2009
R. R. Bowker	The publishing, bibliographical and ISBN firm of R. R. Bowker was founded in the 1870s. In 1967 the firm was acquired by the Xerox Corporation, which sold it to Reed International (later Reed Elsevier) in 1985. While owned by Reed Elsevier, the firm often traded as Bowker-Saur. In 2001 Bowker was sold by Reed Elsevier to Cambridge Information Group. See www.bowker.com.	2008
Red House Ltd	Red House Ltd was founded in Godalming in 1979 as a British children's book distributor and book club operator. In 1996-97 the firm was acquired by Scholastic, Inc. See www.scholastic.com.	2008
Red Wagon Books	Red Wagon Books was established as a children's imprint of Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace. From 2007 Red Wagon Books is an imprint of Harcourt Children's Books, within Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com and www.harcourtbooks.com.	2008
Rei-Lee Books	Rei-Lee Books was an imprint of Reilly and Lee Publishing Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 315-316, and see the FOB entry for Reilly and Lee, which indicates that the successor firms now belong to McGraw-Hill (www.mcgraw-hill.com).	2008
Reilly and Britton Publishing Company	The Madison Book Company was founded in Chicago in 1902 by Frank K. Reilly and Sumner C. Britton. In 1904 the firm's name was changed to Reilly and Britton Publishing Company. Britton left the firm in 1916, and from 1919 William F. Lee became a full partner and the firm became Reilly and Lee Publishing Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 315-316, and see the FOB entry for Reilly and Lee, which indicates that the successor firms now belong to McGraw-Hill (www.mcgraw-hill.com).	2008
Richard Bentley & Son	Richard Bentley was part of the firm of Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley from 1829 for three years. He then founded the firm of Richard Bentley in 1832. In 1898 the firm of Richard Bentley & Son was purchased by Macmillan. See the FOB entry for Macmillan.	2006
Richard G. Badger and Company	The publishing firm of Richard G. Badger and Company was founded in Boston around 1896. In 1932 the firm was purchased by Bruce Humphries. See the FOB entry for Bruce Humphries, and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 32.	2009
Richard Marek Publishers, Inc.	Richard Marek Publishers, Inc. was established as an autonomous imprint of Putnam Berkley in New York in 1977. In 1981 Richard Marek closed down the firm and moved to St Martin's Press where he used the imprint of Richard Marek Books. In 1985 he became President of E. P. Dutton and Company (q.v.), where he did not arrange his own imprint. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 222, and Richard Marek's webpage with the Independent Editors Group: www.bookdocs.com/richard_marek.htm.	2008
Riverhead Books	Riverhead Books was founded in 1994 by Susan Petersen Kennedy and others as an imprint of Putnam Berkley. Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com.	2008

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