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Mahlon Day	The publishing firm of Day and Turner was founded in New York in 1815 by Mahlon Day and Charles Turner. Turner withdrew from the firm around 1820 and it continued as Mahlon Day until 1846 when Day retired. From 1846 the firm continued as Baker, Crane and Day (q.v.), but it went out of business in 1848. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 114-115.	2009
Marcel Dekker	Marcel Dekker Inc. was founded in New York in 1963. It was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 2003. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
Martin Dunitz	Martin Dunitz is a specialist medical publishing house, founded in the 1970s. It was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1999. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
Methuen Drama	The Methuen Drama imprint and list was purchased by A. & C. Black in 2006. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black and www.acblack.com.	2007
Nautical Data Ltd	Nautical Data Ltd (publishers of the Reeds Nautical Almanac) was purchased by A. & C. Black Publishers Ltd in 2004. A. & C. Black is still trading under its own name (see www.acblack.com), but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing.	2007
New Departures	New Departures was a literary periodical founded by beat poet and jazz musician Michael Horovitz and fellow Oxford student Peter Brown in 1959. While the magazine’s initial run appears to have stopped in 1984, Horovitz continued to edit other iterations of it, including “Live New Departures” events and Poetry Olympics anthologies, until his death in 2021. A collection of incoming letters and manuscripts to the magazine as well as proofs for early issues of the magazine and some business correspondence is housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
Noonday Press	The Noonday Press was purchased by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (later Farrar, Straus & Giroux) in 1960. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and became part of Macmillan. See www.holtzbrinck.com and us.macmillan.com.	2008
Patrick Donahoe	Patrick Donahoe was the owner and publisher of the 'Boston Pilot' in the years 1836-1876 and 1891-1901. Between about 1850 and 1876 he also ran an occasional book-publishing firm in his own name. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 132.	2009
Peter Davies Ltd	Peter Davies set up his own publishing company in 1926. In 1937 William Heinemann Ltd took a majority interest in the firm of Peter Davies Ltd, and the two firms were closely linked for the next forty years. In 1977 Peter Davies Ltd was fully incorporated into Heinemann. See the FOB entry for William Heinemann Ltd.	2008
Reader's Digest Association	Reader's Digest Association (RDA) was founded in 1921-22 by DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace. In 2007 Reader's Digest Association was purchased by the private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings LLC. See www.rd.com.	2008

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