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Heinemann Publishing	Heinemann Publishing (also known as Heinemann USA) was founded in 1978 as a US subsidiary of William Heinemann Ltd (q.v.). In 1996 Heinemann Publishing merged with the Greenwood Publishing Group to create Greenwood-Heinemann. See the entries in FOB for all the firms bearing the name of Heinemann. From 2008, Heinemann USA is a subsidiary of the Greenwood Publishing Group, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.heinemann.com; www.greenwood.com; and www.hmhco.com.	2008
High Hill Press	High Hill Press was the personal publishing company of Ian Norrie. The firm was founded as High Hill Books in 1960, and developed in association with the High Hill Bookshop in Hampstead, London. The High Hill Bookshop was closed in 1988. See Hazel Bell: 'Personalities in publishing: Ian Norrie', Journal of scholarly publishing (October 2000).	2008
Hill Publishing Company	John A. Hill began working in publishing in the 1880s, as an editor at 'Locomotive Engineer'. The Hill Publishing Company was incorporated in 1902. In 1909 McGraw Publishing Company and Hill Publishing Company merged to form the McGraw-Hill Book Company. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008
Hogarth Press Ltd	The Hogarth Press, originally founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf, was acquired by Chatto & Windus after World War II. See the FOB entry for Chatto & Windus, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to the Random House UK division of Bertelsmann.	2008
Holloway House Publishing Company	Holloway House Publishing Company was founded in Los Angeles in 1961. The firm was acquired by Kensington Books in 2008. See www.kensingtonbooks.com.	2008
Hulton Picture Library	The Hulton Picture Library was founded in 1947 as an adjunct to 'Picture Post' magazine. See the FOB entry for 'Picture Post'. The picture library was sold in 1958 to the BBC, and became known as the BBC Hulton Picture Library. In 1988 it was sold to Mr Brian Deutsch, and in 1996 was sold on to the Getty Communications Group (now Getty Images). See gettyimages.com.	2007
Hurtig Publishers Ltd	Hurtig was a publishing firm based in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1991 the firm was purchased by McClelland & Stewart. See www.mcclelland.com.	2008
Hutchinson	George Hutchinson founded his publishing company in 1887 and it remained a family firm until it was sold to London Weekend Television in 1979. In 1985 London Weekend Television sold Hutchinson to Century and the firm of Century Hutchinson was formed. Century Hutchinson was purchased by Random House UK in 1989. Random House UK was known as the "Random Century Group Limited" from 1989 to 1992, when it was renamed "Random House UK Limited". Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Hysteria Publications	Hysteria Publications was founded as a publisher of humorous and women's interest books. In 1998 the firm was acquired by Sourcebooks and it now operates as Sourcebooks Hysteria. See www.sourcebooks.com.	2008
IBC Business Publishing	IBC Business Publishing is now part of the T&F Informa Group. See www.ibcbuspub.co.uk and www.informa.com.	2006

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