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Belitha Press	Belitha Press was founded as a publishing firm specialising in educational and international subjects. In 2001 the firm was taken over by Chrysalis Books, and in 2003 Chrysalis stopped using the Belitha imprint (see 'The Bookseller', 11 April 2003). In 2005 Chrysalis Books became Anova Books. See www.anovabooks.com.	2009
Bell & Hyman Ltd	Bell & Hyman Ltd was formed in 1977 when the firm of George Bell & Sons Ltd was sold to Robin Hyman. In 1986 Bell & Hyman Ltd merged with George Allen & Unwin to form Unwin Hyman. In 1990 Unwin Hyman was sold to HarperCollins, part of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2008
Belmont-Tower Books	Belmont Books was purchased by Tower Books in 1969. The imprints at first continued separately but from 1973 they were merged as Belmont-Tower Books. The firm went bankrupt in the early 1980s and its assets were sold at a bankruptcy sale in August 1982. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 361.	2008
Bemrose & Sons	William Bemrose founded his printing and publishing company in the 1820s, initially with a strong emphasis on printing railway information. The printing side of the firm survives as BemroseBooth, which is owned by the Appleton company, of Appleton, Wisconsin (www.bemroseonline.co.uk). The publishing branch of the firm, by then known as Bemrose & Sons, was acquired in 1909 by George Allen & Sons, which became George Allen & Unwin Ltd in 1914. See the FOB entry for George Allen & Unwin.	2009
Benjamin Blom, Inc.	The publishing firm of Benjamin Blom, Inc. was acquired by Arno Press in 1975. Arno Press was by that time a wholly owned subsidiary of the New York Times, and part of Times Books. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 18, and see the FOB entries for Arno Press and Times Books.	2008
Benjamin Cummings	The publishing firm of Benjamin Cummings was merged with Addison-Wesley in 1977 and is consequently now part of the Pearson Group. See the FOB entry for Addison-Wesley and www.pearson.com.	2008
Benziger	Benziger Brothers was a religious publishing house founded in New York in 1853. In 1968 it was purchased by the Crowell-Collier division of the Macmillan Company of New York. Benziger was within the part of Macmillan Inc. which was purchased by McGraw-Hill in 1993, and Benziger became a religion imprint of McGraw-Hill Education. In 2007 the Benziger product line was purchased by CFM Religion Publishing Group, which merged it with its newly acquired RCL-Resources for Christian Living to form RCL Benziger. See www.rclweb.com and www.christjesustheway.com.	2009
Bergin & Garvey	The publishing firm of Bergin & Garvey was acquired by Greenwood Publishing Group in 1989. 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 Bergin & Garvey was discontinued from 2002, when Bergin & Garvey was absorbed into Praeger (q.v.).	2008
Berkley Books	The firm of Berkley Books (also known as the Berkley Publishing Corporation) was founded in 1955. In 1965 the firm was acquired by G. P. Putnam's Sons and became part of Putnam Berkley. Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com and us.penguin.com.	2008
Bernard Geis Associates	Bernard Geis founded his own publishing house in New York in 1958. In the 1960s the firm published a number of controversial titles; many of its backers withdrew their support; and Random House discontinued its distribution of Geis Associates books. The following passage is taken from the obituary of Bernard Geis, New York Times, 10 January 2001: "In 1971, the company filed for bankruptcy protection. The company's books were subsequently published by a variety of other publishing houses under the Geis imprint. Its last book was published in 1995."	2008

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