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Boxtree Books	Boxtree Books was purchased by Holtzbrinck in 1996, and forms part of the Pan Macmillan division of Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2006
Boynton/Cook	Boynton/Cook was founded as a publisher of professional books for English teachers. In 1987 the firm became part of Heinemann Publishing (Heinemann USA). See the FOB entry for Heinemann Publishing, which indicates that from 2008 Heinemann USA is a subsidiary of the Greenwood Publishing Group, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.heinemann.com; www.greenwood.com; and www.hmhco.com.	2008
Branden Press	Branden Press was founded in Boston in 1965 by Edmund R. Brown, John William Andrews and Hugo Norden. In 1971 the firm acquired Bruce Humphries (founded by the same Edmund R. Brown in 1930), and therefore regards the Poet Lore Company and the Four Seas Company as its predecessor firms. The firm now trades as Branden Books, "award winning books since 1909". See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 64 & 73 and www.brandenbooks.com.	2008
Brashear Music Company	The Brashear Music Company was acquired by Branden Press in 1969. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 64; the FOB entry for Branden Press; and www.brandenbooks.com.	2008
Brentano's	August Brentano founded his bookselling and publishing firm in New York in 1885. The firm went into receivership in 1933, and was broken up. Most of the publishing business was sold to Coward-McCann; rights in Brentano's publications of George Bernard Shaw were acquired by Dodd, Mead; the bookselling business was then reformed, and is now part of the Borders group. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 66-67, and see the FOB entries for Coward-McCann Publishing Company and Dodd, Mead and Company.	2009
Brewer and Warren, Inc.	The publishing firm of Brewer and Warren, Inc. was established in 1930 in New York as the successor firm to Payson and Clarke (q.v.). In 1931, the firm changed its name to Brewer, Warren and Putnam, and in 1932 it was purchased by Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace & Company, which traces the firm to the formation of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2008, and see the account of Brewer and Warren in 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 68.	2008
Brewer, Barse and Company	Brewer, Barse and Company was a publishing house in Chicago. In 1909 the firm's founder William J. Barse moved to New York and founded Barse and Hopkins. See the FOB entry for Barse and Hopkins, which indicates that the firm went bankrupt in 1932 and its stock was acquired by Grosset & Dunlap. See the FOB entry for Grosset & Dunlap, which indicates that that firm is now part of the US Penguin group (us.penguingroup.com).	2008
Bright Sky Publishing	Houston Non-Profit Publishing, trading as Bright Sky Publishing, announced by Twitter in February 2020 that it had permanently closed.	2021
Broadway Publishing Company	Broadway Publishing Company was founded in New York around 1901 and published fiction and poetry in the years before World War I. The firm went out of business around 1912. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 71-73.	2008
Brockhampton Press	The Brockhampton Press was founded as the Brockhampton Book Company in Leicester in the 1940s. Brockhampton Press is now part of the Caxton Publishing Group, and the imprint is still in use. See www.caxtonpublishing.com.	2009

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