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Blackie & Son	The firm of Blackie & Son was founded by John Blackie in 1807. Most surviving Blackie rights now belong to the Pearson Group. The following quotation is taken from the pamphlet 'The firm of Blackie & Son and some of their children's books' by Morna Daniels (1999). "In 1991 the academic titles went to Blackie Academic and Professional and the school titles were acquired by Nelson and Sons, who published them under the imprint Nelson Blackie until 1995 after which they dropped the name Blackie. The children's titles were acquired by Blackie Children's Books, part of the Penguin group at 27 Wrights Lane (owned by Pearsons) but the separate imprint disappeared after 1995 and the same authors appear under the Puffin imprint. Blackie sold the Flower Fairies list to Warne, another Pearson acquisition, in 1989."	2008
Blades East and Blades	The printing firm of Blades East and Blades was purchased by McCorquodale in 1927. See the FOB entry for McCorquodale.	2014
Blaisdell Publishing Company	Blaisdell Publishing Company operated from Waltham, Massachusetts until the late 1960s, when it became Ginn-Blaisdell. See the FOB entry for Ginn-Blaisdell, which indicates that all rights are now owned by Wiley. See www.wiley.com.	2008
Blakeman and Mason	The firm of D. F. Robinson and Company was founded in Hartford, Connecticut in 1828, and is the original predecessor firm of Baker and Taylor. The name of Baker and Taylor was adopted in 1885, and between 1828 and 1885 the firm had many names, including Robinson, Pratt and Company; Pratt, Woodford and Company; Farmer, Brace and Company; Blakeman and Mason; Oakley and Mason; Mason, Baker and Pratt; and Baker, Pratt and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 34-35 and see the Our History page of www.btol.com.	2009
Blandford Press Ltd	Blandford Press of London was owned in the 1980s by Link House Books and then by United Newspapers. In 1986-87 it was purchased by Cassell from United Newspapers. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell. Blandford Press is now part of the Octopus Group.	2009
Blond & Briggs Ltd	Anthony Blond Ltd became known as Blond & Briggs Ltd from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s (directors: Anthony Blond and Desmond Briggs). The firm then merged with Frederick Muller Ltd to form Muller, Blond & White Ltd. Muller, Blond & White Ltd was purchased by Century Hutchinson in 1987, and is now part of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2009
Blond Educational	Blond Educational was created as a separate firm from Anthony Blond Ltd (although at the same address) in 1963. See the FOB entry for Anthony Blond Ltd. In 'The Author' (Summer 1974) it was reported that Blond Educational had been sold by Holt-Blond to Granada Publishing. For some years Granada Publishing then ran the imprints of Hart-Davis Educational and Blond Educational in association. By the mid-1980s, however, the Blond Educational imprint was no longer used. Granada Publishing was acquired by William Collins in 1983. See the FOB entry for William Collins, which indicates that any surviving rights will now be owned by the HarperCollins division of News Corporation.	2007
Bloom's Literary Criticism	The publishing firm called Bloom's Literary Criticism was founded by Professor Harold Bloom. In 2005 the firm was sold by Haights Cross Communications to Facts on File, Inc., which is owned by Infobase Publishing. See www.infobasepublishing.com.	2008
BMJ Books	BMJ Books was founded as the book publishing arm of the British Medical Journal. In 2004 the firm was acquired by Blackwell Publishing (now Wiley-Blackwell). See www.blackwellpublishing.com/bmj.	2008
Bobbs-Merrill Company	The Bobbs-Merrill Company was founded in Indianapolis in 1903 and became one of the most important publishing houses in the USA. In 1958 the firm was purchased by Howard W. Sams, and in 1985 all the Sams businesses were acquired by Macmillan, Inc., which decided to discontinue the Bobbs-Merrill operation. The following paragraph is taken from 'The encyclopedia of Indianapolis', edited by David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows, p. 337: "Macmillan was itself acquired in 1988 by the London-based Maxwell Communications Corporation, and Sams and Que were merged. Shortly before Robert Maxwell drowned in a boating accident, with colossal consequences for his gigantic publishing empire, the Indianapolis entity was sold to Paramount Communications (owners of the movie studio). By then, Paramount owned both the Simon and Schuster and the Prentice Hall publishing houses. The Indianapolis company then became Prentice Hall Computer Publishing, a part of Simon and Schuster ...". See the FOB entry for Prentice Hall, which indicates that the firm was sold by Simon & Schuster to the Pearson Group in 1998 and is now an imprint of Pearson Education. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008

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