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Time Warner Book Group	Time Warner Book Group was established as a book publishing subsidiary of Time Warner. Time Warner Book Group was purchased by Hachette Livre in 2006, and formed the basis of Hachette Book Group USA. See www.hachettebookgroupusa.com.	2008
Vaughan and Gomme	The publishing firm of Vaughan and Gomme was founded in New York in 1914 by Donald Vaughan and Laurence James Gomme. Vaughan withdrew from the firm in 1914, and it continued as Gomme and Marshall (q.v.) and then as Laurence James Gomme, before Gomme closed the firm and ended his publishing career in 1917. Lawrence James Gomme was born in 1882 and died in 1974. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 163.	2008
VCH	The German publishing group VCH was acquired by Wiley in the late 1990s. See www.wiley-vch.de.	2008
Victor Gollancz Ltd	Victor Gollancz founded his publishing house in 1928. It was sold by his daughter Livia Gollancz to Houghton Mifflin in 1989, and then purchased by Cassell plc in 1992. Cassell in turn was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and forms part of the Orion Publishing Group within Hachette. Victor Gollancz is an imprint of Orion. See www.hachette.com and www.orionbooks.co.uk.	2007
W. Green & Son	The Scottish legal publishing firm of W. Green & Son was acquired by Sweet & Maxwell in 1956. Sweet & Maxwell in turn was acquired by the Thomson Corporation in 1987, and now forms part of Thomson Legal & Regulatory. See www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.wgreen.co.uk.	2006
Walter H. Baker Company	George M. Baker purchased the play division of Herbert Sweet and Company (q.v.) in 1872 and renamed the firm George M. Baker and Company. The firm was managed by Baker's brother Walter H. Baker, and was renamed the Walter H. Baker Company in 1892. The firm now trades as Baker's Plays. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 35-37, and see www.bakersplays.com.	2009

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