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Leader Publishing Group	In 2007 the Leader Publishing Group of Atlanta was purchased by Trans World Publishing of Atlanta (unrelated to the Transworld publishing firm owned by Bertelsmann). Trans World Publishing is an affiliate of Billian Publishing of Atlanta. See www.billian.com.	2008
Lectorum Publications	Lectorum Publications was founded in New York as a US distributor of books in Spanish for schools and libraries. In 1996 the firm was acquired by Scholastic, Inc. See www.scholastic.com.	2008
Link House Books	Link House Books was the parent company of a number of other publishers, including Blandford Press. In the mid-1980s, Link House Books was purchased first by United Newspapers and then by Cassell. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell.	2007
Lion Books, Inc.	Lion Books was a small publishing house founded by Martin Goodman in New York in 1949. The firm was briefly first known as Select Publications. Both Select Publications and Lion Books used the imprint Red Circle Books. in 1957 Lion Books was acquired by New American Library. See the FOB entry for New American Library, which indicates that in 1986 NAL was purchased by Penguin Group USA. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 211-213.	2008
Liveright Publishing Corporation	The publishing firm of Boni and Liveright was founded in New York in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. In 1918 business differences between the founders led to a split and (on the flip of a coin) sole ownership of the firm passed to Liveright. In 1928 the name of the firm was changed to Horace Liveright, Inc., and in 1933 it became the Liveright Publishing Corporation. The Liveright Publishing Corporation was acquired by W. W. Norton in 1974. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 57-63 and www.wwnorton.com.	2008
Lloyd-Luke	Lloyd-Luke (publisher of medical books) was purchased by Edward Arnold in June 1985. Edward Arnold was purchased by Hodder & Stoughton in March 1987. Hodder & Stoughton is now part of the Hachette group. See www.hodderheadline.co.uk.	2008
LLP Professional Publications	Publications with the imprint LLP Professional began to appear in the 1980s. The firm was previously known as Lloyds of London Press. The LLP Group plc was formed in 1995 and was merged with IBC Group in 1998 to form Informa (now T&F Informa). LLP Professional is now an imprint of Informa Law. See www.informalaw.com.	2008
Longman	Thomas Longman founded his publishing house in 1724. The firm remained a family business until 1970, when it was merged with Penguin Books. By the time of the death of the last family chairman, Mark Longman, in 1972, the firm was known as Pearson Longman. It remains part of the Pearson Group. For a time the divison within Pearson was known as Longman Addison Wesley, but it has now reverted to Longman. See www.pearson.com and www.longman.co.uk.	2007
Longstreet Press	Longstreet Press was founded by Chuck Perry in 1988, and purchased by Scott Bard in 1999. In 2006 the firm filed for bankruptcy. See 'Publishers weekly', 18 September 2006.	2008
Lothrop Publishing Company	Lothrop Publishing Company was founded as D. Lothrop and Company in Boston in 1868. In 1904 the firm went bankrupt and was purchased by the publishing firm of Lee and Shepard. See the FOB entry for Lee and Shepard and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 250-252.	2009

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