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Silver Burdett Company	Silver Burdett Company was founded (as Silver & Co.) in the 1880s as an education publishing house. The firm was purchased in 1985-86 by Simon & Schuster. In 1998 all the Simon & Schuster educational businesses, including Silver Burdett Company, were sold to Pearson, which formed a new company called Pearson Education. The name of Silver Burdett is preserved in the Pearson imprint of Silver Burdett Ginn. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
Silver Burdett Ginn Religion	See the FOB entry for Silver Burdett Company for the history of Silver Burdett Ginn. In 2007 Silver Burdett Ginn Religion was separated from the rest of Silver Burdett Ginn and sold by Pearson Education to the RCL Benziger division of CFM Religion Publishing Group. See 'Publishers weekly', 7 September 2007, and www.rclweb.com.	2008
Sleeping Bear Press	Sleeping Bear Press was founded as a publisher of books on golf and for children in the 1990s and had its first success with 'The Legend of Sleeping Bear' in 1998. In 2002 the firm sold off many of its assets, including its golf, sports and regional books, sold to Clock Tower Press. Ann Arbor Press (q.v.) and other selected publishing assets were sold to Wiley at the same time. The remainder of the company was sold to Gale, and Sleeping Bear Press is now an imprint of Gale Cengage. See www.sleepingbearpress.com.	2008
Sol Bloom	The publishing list of Sol Bloom was purchased by M. Witmark & Sons in 1907. See the FOB entry for M. Witmark & Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2009
SR Books	The firm of SR Books was founded as the book publishing division of Scholarly Resources, Inc. Since 2004, SR Books has been an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Stanley Botes Ltd	The firm of Stanley Botes Ltd (also known as Stanley Botes Booksellers) was purchased by William Collins in 1984. See the FOB entry for William Collins, which indicates that rights will now be owned by the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2007
Stein & Buchheister	The music publishing firm of Stein & Buchheister was active in Detroit in the 1850s and 1860s. Its owners were Charles F. Stein and William Buchheister. The firm went out of existence around 1865, when Stein returned to Germany and Buchheister was confined in an insane asylum. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990).	2007
Strebor Books	Strebor Books was founded as an African American publishing firm by the author Zane in 1999. In 2006 the firm was acquired by Simon & Schuster. See www.simonsays.com.	2008
Student Book Exchange	Student Book Exchange (SBX) was a bookstore founded by Leonard Riggio in New York in 1965. By the 1970s SBX had expanded such that it was able to acquire Barnes & Noble. Thereafter the Barnes & Noble name was used for all the firm's stores. See www.barnesandnobleinc.com.	2008
Stuttgarter Hausbücherei	Stuttgarter Hausbücherei was established in 1948 as a German national book club and the first significant firm controlled by Georg von Holtzbrinck. In the late 1950s the firm was renamed Deutscher Bücherbund. Deutscher Bücherbund remained the principal company within the Holtzbrink Group until the 1980s, but in 1989 it was sold to Kirch Group. The Kirch Group (KirchGruppe) became insolvent and went out of existence in 2002. Rights in Deutscher Bücherbund appear to have been acquired by the Bertelsmann Group, and www.buecherbund.de now diverts to www.derclub.de (the website of Der Club, owned by Bertelsmann).	2008

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