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Bartholomew	The map publishers Bartholomew was founded in Edinburgh by John Bartholomew in 1826. In 1980 the firm was sold to Reader's Digest, who in turn sold it on to News International (now News Corporation) in 1985. See www.newscorp.com. Bartholomew now usually trades as Collins Bartholomew. See www.bartholomewmaps.com.	2008
Basic Books	The publishing firm Basic Books was founded by Arthur Rosenthal in 1952. In 1969 he sold the firm to Harper & Row (later HarperCollins). In 1997 Basic Books was purchased from HarperCollins by the Perseus Books Group. See www.perseusbooks.com.	2008
Bath Street Press	Bath Street Press was purchased by Thorsons from Marshall Pickering in January 1989. Thorsons was purchased by William Collins later that same year. William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990, and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers. See www.newscorp.com. The Thorsons name is still used by News Corporation, but the name of Bath Street Press has not been used for publishing since about 1988.	2008
Bay Books	The Australian firm of Bay Books is owned by News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2007
BBC Books	The Random House Group acquired a majority shareholding in BBC Books in 2006, and BBC Books became part of the Ebury Publishing Division of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Beacon Press	There have been several printing and publishing firms called Beacon Press. The American Unitarian Association began publishing in its own name in 1854 and began using the name Beacon Press in 1902 (now under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 42 and www.beacon.org. For a British firm with this name see www.beaconpress.co.uk.	2009
Beadle and Adams	Beadle and Adams was a publishing house associated with the invention of the "dime novel". The firm had many names as predecessors and associated companies, including Beadle & Brother, E. F. Beadle, Beadle and Vanduzee and Victor Adams & Co. The partnership of Erastus Beadle, Irwin Beadle and Robert Adams began around 1856. In 1898 all the assets of the firm of Beadle and Adams (including the Dime Library) were acquired by M. J. Ivers and Company (q.v.). See the detailed website on the history of Beadle and Adams at www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp.	2009
Beechurst Press	According to the obituary of Thomas Yoseloff by his daughter Tamar Yoseloff, 'The Guardian', 13 February 2008, Beechurst Press was Thomas Yoseloff's first solo publishing venture, and was founded in 1939. See the FOB entry for Thomas Yoseloff, Inc.	2008
Belford, Clarke and Company	The bookselling and publishing firm of Belford, Clarke and Company was founded in Chicago in 1875 by Alexander Belford and James Clarke. In 1892 the firm merged with several other publishing houses to form the Werner Company. Alexander Belford subsequently formed the firms of Belford, Middlebrook and Company and then Alexander Belford and Company. He ceased publishing around 1901 and died in 1906. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 47 and see the FOB entry for the Werner Company.	2009
Belhaven Press	The publishing firm of Belhaven Press was purchased by Wiley from Pinter Publishers in 1993. See www.wiley.com.	2008

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