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J. S. Cushing & Co.	J. S. Cushing & Co. was one of the three firms which came together as Norwood Press from 1894. After World War II, production declined and Norwood Press and its constituent companies had all closed by 1953 [information from the records of the Norwood Historical Society].	2009
J. S. Sanders & Company	J. S. Sanders founded his publishing firm in Nashville, Tennessee, publishing books about Southern US culture and history. The firm is now an imprint of Ivan R. Dee, which in turn is owned by the Rowman & Littlefield Group. See www.ivanrdee.com and www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
J. W. Arrowsmith	The publishing firm of J. W. Arrowsmith flourished in Bristol from 1883 to 1914. Its greatest publishing success was 'Three men in a boat' by Jerome K. Jerome (1889). See John R. Turner: 'Conditions for success as a provincial publisher in late nineteenth-century England', Publishing history 41 (1997). The firm declined after the death of J. W. Arrowsmith himself in 1913. In 1924 it moved from Bristol to London; it returned to Bristol in 1938, and closed down in 1949. Rights in all the J. W. Arrowsmith titles were then sold to J. M. Dent. See the FOB entry for J. M. Dent.	2008
J. W. Parker, Son and Bourne	The firm of J. W. Parker, Son and Bourne was taken over by Longman in 1863. See the FOB entry for Longman, which is now part of the Pearson Group, and www.pearson.com.	2008
J. W. Wilcox & Follett Company	The bookselling firm of C. M. Barnes was renamed the C. M. Barnes - Wilcox Company in 1908, when John Wilcox became the primary shareholder. In 1917 management of the firm was taken over by C. W. Follett and it was renamed J. W. Wilcox & Follett Company. After the death of John Wilcox in 1923, the firm became the Follett Company. It is now the Follett Corporation. See www.follett.com.	2008
J. Winchester	Jonas Winchester ran his own publishing firm in New York from about 1840 to 1844, in association with 'The New World' of which he was joint-owner. In 1844 Winchester sold his interest in the firm to his son Ebenezer and J. W. Judd, and it seems that the firm closed shortly afterwards. 'The New World' ceased publication in 1845. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 494.	2009
Jacaranda Wiley Ltd	Jacaranda Wiley Ltd is the former name used for Wiley operations in Australia. In June 1999 the company name was changed from Jacaranda Wiley Ltd to John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd. See www.johnwiley.com.au.	2008
James Munroe and Company	The bookselling and publishing firm of Munroe and Nichols was founded in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early 1830s by James Munroe and George Nichols. From 1835 the firm became known as James Munroe and Company. Munroe died in 1861 and the firm went out of business in 1861 or 1862. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 319.	2009
James R. Osgood and Company	James R. Osgood and Company was founded in Boston in 1871 as a successor firm to Fields, Osgood and Company (q.v.). The firm was in financial difficulty in 1878 and was forced to merge with Hurt and Houghton to form Houghton, Osgood and Company (q.v.). James R. Osgood and Company was re-formed in 1880 and continued until it went out of business in 1885. The firm's debts were covered by the new firm of Ticknor and Company (q.v.). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 341-347.	2009
James Redpath	James Redpath founded his publishing firm in Boston in 1861, with publications including the series 'Books for the Times' and 'Books for Camp and Home'. The firm went out of existence in 1864, when Redpath moved to become a newspaper correspondent with General Sherman's army. He died in 1891. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 387-389.	2009

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