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Jarrold	As from January 2007, the Jarrold company of Norwich is no longer a publishing company. See the FOB entry for Jarrold Publishing, which was purchased by NPI Media in January 2007. The Jarrold company continues to trade in Norwich, with three divisions for retail, properties and training.	2008
Jarrold Publishing	In January 2007 Jarrold Publishing, until that time a division of the Jarrold company of Norwich, was sold to NPI Media. In December 2007, NPI Media was in turn sold to the History Press of Charleston, South Carolina (www.historypress.net). For controversy over these sales, see issues of 'The Bookseller', e.g. 18 December 2007 and 3 January 2008.	2008
Jason Aronson Publishers, Inc.	Dr Jason Aronson founded his own publishing firm in 1966. In 2003 the firm was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, which continues to use the name as an imprint. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
Jems Communications Inc.	The firm of Jems Communications Inc., of Carlsbad, California, publishers of prehospital periodicals, was purchased by the C. V. Mosby Company (a division of Times Mirror) in 1993. Mosby was purchased by Harcourt Brace & Company from Times Mirror in 1998, and the Harcourt Group was in turn purchased by Reed Elsevier in 2001. After the sale of the Harcourt businesses in 2007-2008 Mosby remains part of Reed Elsevier. See www.elsevierdirect.com.	2008
Jerome H. Remick & Co.	The music publishing firm of Jerome H. Remick & Co. was established in New York City in 1906, after the dissolution of Shapiro-Remick & Company. It later became known as the Remick Music Corporation. In 1929 the firm was purchased by Warner Brothers Pictures, and it is identified as one of the predecessor firms of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. in the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2007
Job Buffum	Job Buffum founded his publishing firm in Boston in 1850. The firm went out of existence around 1861. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 67.	2009
Joel Munsell	Joel Munsell founded his publishing firm in Albany, New York in 1836. After his death in 1880, the firm continued as Joel Munsell's Sons. It went out of business in 1895. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 320.	2009
John Allen and Company	John Allen founded his bookselling and publishing firm in Boston in 1834. The firm relocated to New York in 1837 and went out of business around 1849. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 8.	2009
John B. Alden	John B. Alden began his bookselling and publishing business in New York in the 1870s. He founded a number of firms, several of which went bankrupt. His last two enterprises bore the names of John B. Alden Publisher (1895-1905) and Alden Brothers Publishers (1905-1908). In 1908 he retired and closed down his firm. He died in 1924. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 6.	2009
John Babcock and Son	John Babcock joined the printing, publishing and bookselling firm of his father Elisha Babcock in Hartford, Connecticut in 1795, and the firm soon began to use the imprint of John Babcock. From 1811 the firm moved to New Haven and became known as John Babcock and Son. The firm ceased publishing around 1824. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 31.	2009

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