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Newspaper Enterprise Association	See: https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/222_nea.html The NEA archives was bought by CORBIS, which controlled the copying of NEA images physically housed in its archives in New York City. In 2016, CORBIS was, in turn, sold to Visual China Group (VCG), which arranged to have Getty Images be the exclusive distributor of CORBIS images outside of China. Neither VCG nor Getty Images controls the copying of NEA images housed in the Library of Congress. However, any copyright held by NEA that is still current would now be owned by VCG, administered by Getty Images. Getty Images can be contacted at: http://www.gettyimages.com/customer-support	2021
Nimbus	Nimbus: A Magazine of Literature, the Arts, and New Ideas began publication in December 1951 as a quarterly magazine edited by Tristram Hull for the magazine’s thirteen issues. Hull was later joined by co-editors Ivo Jarosy and David Wright. In 1957 Christopher Logue became co-editor with Hull and the name of the magazine was changed to Nimbus: New English Review. The magazine was published by John Trafford at the Halcyon Press. It ceased publication in 1958. A collection of editorial files for all issues of the magazine except the last are housed at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.	2025
Nottingham Educational Supplies	Nottingham Educational Supplies was a division of Nottingham Group plc. In 1989 Nottingham Group acquired most of the firm of E. J. Arnold & Son Ltd of Leeds and merged it with Nottingham Educational Supplies to form NES Arnold. NES Arnold became part of the Novara group and in 2001 was purchased by Findel plc. See www.findel-education.co.uk and www.nesarnold.co.uk.	2008
Pantheon Casa Editrice	Pantheon Casa Editrice was an art publishing house founded by Kurt Wolff in Leipzig in 1924. In 1941 Wolff fled Germany for the USA, and in 1942 he became one of the founders of Pantheon Books in New York. See the FOB entry for Pantheon Books and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 270.	2008
Rabbit Ears	The firm of Rabbit Ears Productions was founded by Mark Sottnick in 1985. The firm passed through various management arrangements, including a distribution agreement with Simon & Schuster and ownership by Microleague Multimedia, before it was purchased in 2006 by Listening Library, the children's division of Random House Audio, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/audio.	2008
Sheldon and Company	In 1853 Smith Sheldon purchased the publishing firm of Lamport, Blakeman and Law and renamed it Sheldon, Lamport and Blakeman. The firm later traded as Sheldon, Blakeman and Company, Sheldon and Company and I. E. Sheldon, before going out of business in 1898. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 420.	2009
Smith, Elder & Co.	The firm of Smith and Elder was founded by George Smith senior and Alexander Elder in 1816. It became Smith, Elder & Co. in 1824. In 1917 Smith, Elder & Co. was taken over by the firm of John Murray. See the FOB entry for John Murray, which is now part of the Hachette group.	2009
Student Book Exchange	Student Book Exchange (SBX) was a bookstore founded by Leonard Riggio in New York in 1965. By the 1970s SBX had expanded such that it was able to acquire Barnes & Noble. Thereafter the Barnes & Noble name was used for all the firm's stores. See www.barnesandnobleinc.com.	2008
Theodore Brun Fine Editions Ltd	The publishing firm of Theodore Brun Fine Editions was active in the 1940s and 1950s. In April 1959 the lawyers Lucien A. Isaacs & Co. published a notice in 'The Times' of a petition by Quention Press Limited for the winding up of Theodore Brun Fine Editions.	2009
Tribune Education	The educational publishing firm of Tribune Education was purchased by McGraw-Hill in 2000. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008

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