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Dale Seymour Co.	Dale Seymour Co., a school supplemental publisher, was acquired by the Addison-Wesley division of Pearson in 1989. Addison-Wesley had been purchased by Pearson plc in 1988, and still forms part of the Pearson Group. For a time the divison within Pearson was known both as Longman Addison Wesley and as Addison Wesley Longman, but it has now reverted to Addison-Wesley. See www.pearson.com.	2008
Darton & Harvey	The publishing firm of Darton & Harvey was established in London in 1791. At various times in the next fifty years, it was known as Harvey & Darton and as Darton, Harvey & Darton. The business was sold to Robert Yorke Clarke in 1847 and it closed in 1852.	2008
DDC Publishing	The firm of DDC Publishing was purchased by Pearson Education in 2002. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
Dell-Delacorte	The publishing firm of Dell-Delacorte was acquired by Doubleday in 1976. Doubleday was purchased by Bertelsmann in 1986. Dell-Delacorte is now part of Bantam Dell Publishing, which is part of Random House, which in turn is part of Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Derrydale Press	The Derrydale Press was a book publishing company founded in 1927 by Eugene V. Connett III. According to the catalogue of the archives of the Derrydale Press, in Princeton University Library, the firm went into liquidation in 1942. 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 112, states that Derrydale's assets were sold in 1942 to the publisher of sporting prints Frank J. Lowe. Rights to the firm have now been acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, whose website states that they are "in the process of reviving Derrydale". See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Deutscher Bücherbund	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
DeWolfe, Fiske and Company	The publishing firm of DeWolfe, Fiske and Company was founded in Boston in 1880 by Perez Morton DeWolfe and Charles F. Fiske, as the successor firm to Albert W. Lovering (q.v.). From 1905 the firm was renamed DeWolfe and Fiske, ceased publishing, and became a retail and wholesale book business. The firm later became a subsidiary of Chadwick-Miller Inc., of Canton, Massachusetts. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 119.	2009
Diadem Books Limited	Diadem Books Limited was established in 1978 by Ken Vickers and Ken Wilson. The firm was purchased by Hodder & Stoughton in 1989, and the Diadem imprint ceased to be used around 1993. Since that time the firm of Bâton Wicks, set up by Ken Wilson, has bought back a number of Diadem titles. See the FOB entry for Hodder & Stoughton; www.hodderheadline.co.uk; and www.batonwicks.com.	2008
Dial Press	Dial Press was founded in New York in the 1920s in association with 'The Dial' magazine. In the 1960s Dial Press was gradually acquired by Dell (later Dell-Delacorte). See the FOB entry for Dell-Delacorte, which indicates that the firm is now part of Bantam Dell Publishing, which is part of Random House, which in turn is part of Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/bantamdell and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Diamond Communications	The firm of Diamond Communications was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Group in 2001 and now forms part of Taylor Trade Publishing. See www.rlpgtrade.com.	2008

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