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Philip Wellby	The firm of Philip Wellby was a publisher of occult books. In 1908 the firm was taken over by the newly formed William Rider & Co. William Rider & Co. was acquired by Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann, and Rider is now a Random House imprint. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Piatkus Books	Piatkus Books was founded as an independent publisher by Judy Piatkus in 1979. The firm is now part of the Little, Brown group. See www.piatkus.co.uk.	2008
Pica Press	Pica Press is part of the Natural History division of A. & C. Black Publishers Ltd. A. & C. Black is still trading under its own name (see www.acblack.com), but is owned by Bloomsbury Publishing.	2008
Picador	The Picador imprint was launched in 1972 by Pan Books, which at that time was owned jointly by Collins, Macmillan and Heinemann. In 1987 Pan became a wholly owned subsidiary of Macmillan. Since 1999, Macmillan has been wholly owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group, with Pan Macmillan as one of the company's principal divisions. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2006
Piccadilly Novels	Piccadilly Novels was an imprint of Fiction House, begun in 1934. See the FOB entry for Fiction House, which indicates that the firm went out of existence in 1959.	2008
Pickering & Inglis	The religious publishing firm of Pickering & Inglis merged with Marshall, Morgan and Scott in the mid-1980s to form Marshall Pickering. See the FOB entry for Marshall Pickering, which indicates that any surviving rights will now belong to the Zondervan division of News Corporation. See www.zondervan.com.	2007
Picture Post	Picture Post magazine was founded by Sir Edward Hulton in 1937 and continued until 1957, when the Hulton Archive was sold, initially to the BBC. The archive was sold by the BBC in 1988 to a private owner, and then was purchased by the Getty Communications Group in 1996. The Getty Communications Group is now known as Getty Images. See gettyimages.com.	2007
Pitkin Unichrome	Pitkin Unichrome was a heritage publishing firm which was purchased by Jarrold Publishing in 2001. See the FOB entry for Jarrold Publishing, which indicates that from late 2007 the firm is in the ownership of the History Press, Charleston, South Carolina (www.historypress.net).	2008
PJB Publications	PJB Publications was established by Dr Philip Brown in 1976, when he bought the magazine Scrip. PJB Publications was sold in 2003 and is now a trading division of T&F Informa UK Limited. See www.pjbpubs.com.	2006
Platt and Munk	The children's publishing house of Platt and Munk was founded in 1921. The firm was acquired by Grosset & Dunlap in 1977. In 1982 Grosset & Dunlap was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons (of the Putnam Berkley Group). Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com and the company history pages of us.penguingroup.com.	2008

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