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Norwood Press	Norwood Press was formed in 1894 and constituted an alliance between three independent firms in Norwood, Massachusetts: J. S. Cushing & Co., Berwick & Smith and E. Fleming & Co. After World War II, production declined and Norwood Press and its constituent companies had all closed by 1953 [information from the records of the Norwood Historical Society].	2009
Nottingham Group plc	In 1997 Nottingham Group plc and the firm of Philip Harris merged to form a new company called Novara. In 2001 Novara was purchased by Findel plc. See www.findel-education.co.uk.	2008
Octopus Publishing Group	The Octopus Publishing Group (founded by Paul Hamlyn, and with imprints including Hamlyn, Mitchell Beazley, Conran and Philip's) was purchased by Hachette in 2001. Other imprints previously part of the Octopus Group (such as William Heinemann) had already been sold to Random House in 1997. See www.hachette.com and www.octopus-publishing.co.uk.	2006
Options Publishing	Options Publishing was founded as an educational publishing firm in Merrimack, New Hampshire in 1993. In 2004 the firm was acquired by Haights Cross Communications, Inc., and incorporated as a subsidiary into Triumph Learning LLC. See www.haightscross.com and www.optionspublishing.com.	2008
Orion Press	Orion Press was a small publisher based in New York in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1965 the firm was bought by Grossman Publishers. See the FOB entry for Grossman, which indicates that the firm is now part of Viking, which is part of Penguin USA, which in turn is part of the Pearson Group. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 167-168.	2008
Orion Publishing Group Ltd	The following passage is taken from the Orion website (http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/history.aspx): "The Orion Publishing Group Limited was founded in 1991. Soon after incorporation, Orion began negotiations with Lord Weidenfeld and acquired Weidenfeld & Nicolson as the nucleus of a new, entrepreneurial publishing group." The Orion Publishing Group was bought by Hachette in 1998, but continues to trade under its own name.	2008
Oryx Press	Oryx Press was founded by Phyllis Steckler in 1975 as an independent reference publisher. In 2000 the firm was purchased by Greenwood Press, which at that time was owned by Reed Elsevier. See 'Library Journal', 27 November 2000. From 2008, the Greenwood Publishing Group (including Oryx Press) is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.greenwood.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008
Outing Publishing Company	Outing Publishing Company was founded in New York in 1905 by James K. Reeve. In 1909 the firm went bankrupt, but it was later reconstituted and in 1918 its book list was purchased by Macmillan. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 267 and www.macmillan.com.	2008
Oxford Railway Publishing	Oxford Railway Publishing was purchased by Cassell from United Newspapers in 1987. Cassell was purchased by Hachette in 1998, and subsequently divided. See the FOB entry for Cassell.	2008
P. F. Collier & Son	'Collier's Weekly' was founded in 1888 (as 'Collier's Once A Week') and formed the early basis of the publishing house of P. F. Collier & Son. Peter Fenelon Collier died in 1909. In 1919 P. F. Collier & Son was purchased by Crowell and the firm was renamed Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. Crowell-Collier was purchased by the Macmillan Company of New York in 1960. The Crowell-Collier business and imprints formed part of the purchase of Macmillan Inc. by Simon & Schuster in 1994. See www.simonsays.com.	2006

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