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Roaring Brook Press	Roaring Brook Press was founded in 2001 in Connecticut as a publisher of children's books. In 2004 the firm was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and became part of Macmillan. See www.holtzbrinck.com and us.macmillan.com.	2008
Robert Bell	Robert Bell founded his bookselling and publishing firm in Philadelphia in 1768. The firm went out of existence in 1784. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 48.	2009
Robert O. Ballou	Robert O. Ballou was a journalist, editor and publisher. In 1932 he was briefly vice-president of the firm of Jonathan Cape and Robert Ballou. From 1932 to 1935 he ran his own publishing company, but he wound up the firm and went to work for other publishers including Jonathan Cape and then Viking Press. He died in 1977. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 33.	2008
Robson Books	The publishing firm of Robson Books was founded by Jeremy Robson in the mid-1970s. It became an imprint of Chrysalis Books, and since 2005 has been an imprint of Anova Books. See www.anovabooks.com. Jeremy Robson's new independent company is called JR Books - see www.jrbooks.com.	2007
Samuel Bagster & Sons Ltd	The religious publishing firm of Samuel Bagster & Sons was founded around 1794. The firm was sold (as part of the assets of George Webb Bookbinders) 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
Saturday Review Press	Saturday Review Press was established in 1971 as the successor firm to McCall Books (q.v.). In 1973 Saturday Review Press was sold to E. P. Dutton and Company, which is now part of the Penguin Group. The use of the name Saturday Review Press ceased in 1977. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 328.	2008
Schocken Books	Schocken Books was founded by Salman Schocken in Germany in 1931. The firm began publishing in the USA in 1945, and was purchased by Random House in 1987. Random House is now owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/schocken and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Seal Books	Seal Books was founded in 1977 as a partnership between Bantam Books and McClelland & Stewart. Seal Books is now an imprint of Random House Canada. See www.randomhouse.ca.	2008
Sheldon and Company	In 1853 Smith Sheldon purchased the publishing firm of Lamport, Blakeman and Law and renamed it Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman. The firm later traded as Sheldon, Blakeman and Company, Sheldon and Company and I. E. Sheldon, before going out of business in 1898. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 420.	2009
Shepard, Clark and Brown	The publishing firm of Shepard, Clark and Company was founded in Boston in 1855 by Charles A. B. Shepard, H. A. Clark and E. C. Walker. In 1857 Walker was replaced by E. W. Brown and the company was renamed Shepard, Clark and Brown. It went out of business in 1859. Charles Shepard later became one of the founders of Lee and Shepard (q.v.). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 423.	2009

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