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Impulse PublicationsImpulse Publications was founded as a publishing company in Aberdeen by Paul Harris in 1968. (See also the FOB entry for Waterfront Communications.) The firm has closed, and Paul Harris moved to work as an editor in Sri Lanka and more recently in Shanghai.2007
InfoPOEM, Inc.InfoPOEM, Inc. was founded in Charlottesville, Virginia, as a provider of evidence-based medical information, with POEM standing for "Patient-Oriented Evidence that Matters". In 2005 the firm was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com.2008
Interscience PublishersThe firm of Interscience Publishers was founded by Maurits Dekker in 1940. In 1961 it was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com.2006
Iowa State PressIowa State Press was founded (as the Collegiate Press) in 1924. In 1999 the press was purchased by Blackwell Scientific. See www.blackwellpublishing.com (this website remains current after Blackwell became part of Wiley in February 2007).2008
Irwin P. Beadle and CompanyThe publishing firm of Irwin P. Beadle and Company was founded by Irwin Beadle and Robert Adams in 1859, and forms part of the complex of firms usually described as Beadle and Adams (q.v.). Several times Irwin Beadle separated from the main firm, founding a second Irwin P. Beadle and Company in 1862 (sold to George Munro in 1864) and a third Irwin P. Beadle and Company from 1865 to 1867. See www.ulib.niu.edu/badndp and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 43-46.2009
Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, Inc.Ivan R. Dee established his publishing firm in 1988. The firm was acquired by the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group in 1998. See www.ivanrdee.com and www.rowmanlittlefield.com.2008
J. H. Sears CompanyJoseph H. Sears founded his own publishing company in New York in 1922. The firm was reincorporated as Sears Publishing Company in 1929. In 1934 Sears Publishing Company was purchased by Dodd, Mead and Company. See the FOB entry for Dodd, Mead and Company which describes the circumstances in which that firm went out of business in 1990.2008
J. W. Parker, Son and BourneThe 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
Jarrold PublishingIn 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

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