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Richard Marek Publishers, Inc.	Richard Marek Publishers, Inc. was established as an autonomous imprint of Putnam Berkley in New York in 1977. In 1981 Richard Marek closed down the firm and moved to St Martin's Press where he used the imprint of Richard Marek Books. In 1985 he became President of E. P. Dutton and Company (q.v.), where he did not arrange his own imprint. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 222, and Richard Marek's webpage with the Independent Editors Group: www.bookdocs.com/richard_marek.htm.	2008
Richview Press	Richview Press was a name briefly used by the Irish publishing house of Browne and Nolan around 1970. See the FOB entry for Browne and Nolan, which indicates that any surviving rights will belong to the Educational Company of Ireland, part of the Smurfit Kappa Group. See www.edco.ie and www.smurfitkappa.com.	2007
Rigby	Rigby is a long-established educational publisher. Rigby International was purchased by Reed in 1988 and Rigby Education in 1991. The firms were then mostly part of the Harcourt Achieve division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Achieve was purchased by Houghton Mifflin in 2007, and is now part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See rigby.harcourtachieve.com and www.hmhco.com. Some parts of Rigby were within Harcourt Education International and were acquired by Pearson in 2008. The Rigby imprint is used by Heinemann Educational (www.heinemann.co.uk) and, for example, Rigby Australia is part of Pearson Education Australia (www.pearsoned.com.au).	2008
Riverside Press	The Riverside Press was a publishing firm founded by Henry Houghton in 1852. In 1872 George Mifflin became a partner in the firm. In 1880 the Riverside Press merged with the remnants of the firms of Ticknor and Fields and Houghton, Osgood and Company to form Houghton Mifflin and Company. See www.hmco.com.	2009
Roaring Brook Press	Roaring Brook Press was founded in 2001 in Connecticut as a publisher of children's books. In 2004 the firm was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and became part of Macmillan. See www.holtzbrinck.com and us.macmillan.com.	2008
Robert M. DeWitt Publisher	The publishing firm of DeWitt and Davenport was founded in New York in 1848 by Robert M. DeWitt and James Davenport. The partnership was dissolved in 1856, but the firm continued as Robert M. DeWitt Publisher from 1857. DeWitt died in 1877 and the firm went out of existence. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 118.	2009
Robinson Publishing Ltd	Robinson Publishing Ltd was founded by Nick Robinson in 1983. In 1999 the firm merged with Constable & Co. Ltd to form Constable & Robinson. See www.constablerobinson.com.	2006
Round Hall	The Dublin-based legal publishing firm of Round Hall is now part of the Sweet & Maxwell Group, which in turn is part of the Thomson Corporation. See www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.thomson.com.	2006
Routledge & Kegan Paul	George Routledge began publishing in 1836 and founded his publishing company George Routledge & Co. in 1851. After briefly being known as Routledge, Warne & Routledge, it became George Routledge & Sons in 1865. In 1912 George Routledge & Sons merged with Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. to form Routledge & Kegan Paul. The Routledge Group was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 1998. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.routledge.com.	2006
Row, Peterson & Co.	The Illinois publishing firm of Row, Peterson & Co. merged with Harper & Brothers in 1962 to form Harper & Row. Harper & Row was acquired by News Corporation and merged with William Collins in the early 1990s to form HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com. In 2001 HarperCollins Publishers was reorganised into two divisions: General Books and Collins.	2009

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