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Gruner + Jahr	The Hamburg printing and publishing firm of Gruner + Jahr was acquired by Bertelsmann over the period 1969-1973. See www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Haldeman-Julius Company	The Haldeman-Julius Company was a publishing firm founded in 1922 as the successor company to the Appeal Publishing Company (q.v.). The firm published many titles as Big Blue Books and Little Blue Books. In 1964 the firm was prosecuted for selling books on sex education, and went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 176-178.	2008
Harcourt, Brace & Company	Harcourt, Brace & Company was founded by Alfred Harcourt and Donald Brace in 1919. In the 1950s the firm became known as Harcourt, Brace & World and then Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ); later it reverted to Harcourt Brace. In 1998 Harcourt Brace & Company was acquired by Reed Elsevier, and in December 2007 Reed Elsevier sold Harcourt Education, Harcourt Trade and Greenwood-Heinemann to Houghton Mifflin. From 2008 the imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is in use. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com. Also from 2008, Harcourt Assessment was sold to Pearson. See www.harcourtassessment.com and pearsonassess.com.	2008
Harper & Brothers	The firm of Harper & Brothers was founded in New York City in 1817 by James and John Harper. It was originally called J. and J. Harper. In 1962 Harper & Brothers merged with the Illinois publishing firm of Row, Peterson & Co. to form Harper & Row. Harper & Row was acquired by News Corporation in 1987 and merged with William Collins in the early 1990s to form HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com.	2009
Herbert Jenkins Ltd	The novelist Herbert Jenkins founded his own publishing company in 1912. The firm of Herbert Jenkins Ltd merged with Barrie & Rockliff in 1964 to form Barrie & Jenkins. Barrie & Jenkins is now a subsidiary and imprint of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2006
J. & A. Churchill	The medical publishers J. & A. Churchill had become part of the Longman Group before the merger with Penguin in 1970 and the subsequent formation of the Pearson Longman Group. See the Longman entry in FOB and www.pearson.com.	2008
J. & J. J. Deighton	The Cambridge firm of J. & J. J. Deighton was acquired by George Bell in 1854. See the FOB entry for George Bell & Sons Ltd.	2008
J. A. Allen	J. A. Allen was founded in 1926 as an independent publisher of equestrian books. The firm was acquired by Robert Hale Limited in 1999. See www.halebooks.com.	2008
J. B. Baillière	Jean-Baptiste Baillière founded his own medical publishing firm in Paris in 1818 and opened a London office in 1826. See 'Mumby's Publishing and bookselling in the twentieth century', 6th ed. by Ian Norrie (1982). Baillière died in 1867 and two years later his widow sold the firm to A. A. Tindall and William Cox. See the FOB entry for Baillière, Tindall & Cox, which indicates that the firm is now owned by Elsevier Science.	2008
J. B. Lippincott	The Lippincott publishing company was founded in 1785 and remained a family firm until it was purchased by Harper & Row in 1977. Harper & Row created an imprint called Lippincott & Crowell. The Lippincott division was sold by HarperCollins to Wolters Kluwer in 1990. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is now a division of Wolters Kluwer. See www.lww.com and www.wolters-kluwer.com.	2009

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