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Dinosaur Publications	The firm of Dinosaur Publications was purchased by William Collins in 1984. See the FOB entry for William Collins, which indicates that rights will now be owned by the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2008
Dominie Press	Dominie Press was an independently-owned publishing company based in Carlsbad, California. In 2004 the company was acquired by Pearson Education. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
Dorling Kindersley	Dorling Kindersley (www.dk.com) was founded in 1974 by Peter Kindersley and Christopher Dorling. The company was purchased by Penguin UK in 2000. Penguin UK is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com.	2009
Doves Press	The Doves Press was founded by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson in 1899 and remained in his personal ownership. The Doves Press went out of existence in 1916, when Cobden-Sanderson famously threw all the firm's type into the River Thames.	2014
Duell, Sloan and Pearce	The publishing firm of Duell, Sloan and Pearce was founded in New York in 1939 by C. Halliwell Duell, Samuel Sloan and Charles A. Pearce. In 1961 the firm was acquired by Meredith Publishing Company. According to 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), Meredith retired Duell, Sloan and Pearce as an imprint in 1967. According to John Tebbel: 'A history of book publishing in the United States', Volume IV (1981), all rights in Duell, Sloan and Pearce titles were purchased from Meredith in 1969 by Hawthorn Books. See the FOB entry for Hawthorn Books, Inc., which indicates that any remaining rights in that firm would belong to the E. P. Dutton division of Penguin Books.	2008
Dun Emer Press	The Dun Emer Press was founded by Evelyn Gleeson in 1903 and was run by her and members of the Yeats family until 1908. In 1908 the Dun Emer Press became the Cuala Press, under the direction of Elizabeth Yeats. See the FOB entry for Cuala Press.	2008
E. & F. N. Spon	E. & F. N. Spon (also known as the Spon Press) began publishing around 1850, specialising in engineering and architectural works, and eventually became part of the Routledge Group. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com.	2006
E. J. Arnold Publishing Division	E. J. Arnold & Son Ltd was founded in Leeds in 1863 and became a major firm of stationers, printers and publishers. In 1989 the E. J. Arnold Publishing Division was sold to the UK firm of Thomas Nelson. See the FOB entry for Thomas Nelson.	2008
E. P. Dutton and Company	Edward Payson Dutton founded a book-selling firm in Boston in 1852, and began publishing in the 1860s. The firm was acquired by New American Library, and in 1986 New American Library was purchased by Penguin Group USA, which still uses the Dutton imprint. See us.penguingroup.com.	2008
Eagle Press	Eagle Press was an Australian printing firm. According to the catalogue of the archive of Angus and Robertson in the State Library of New South Wales, Eagle Press was acquired by Angus and Robertson in the 1920s and renamed Halstead Press. In 1972 Halstead Press was sold by Angus and Robertson to John Sands Pty Ltd. See www.johnsands.com.au.	2009

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