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Roycroft Printing Shop	The Roycroft Printing Shop was founded in East Aurora, New York, in 1895 by Elbert Hubbard and others. It became a printing and publishing firm influenced by William Morris and the Kelmscott Press. Hubbard and his wife died in the sinking of the 'Lusitania' in 1915. The firm was continued by Elbert Hubbard II, until it went bankrupt in 1938. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 401-406.	2009
Running Press Publishers	Running Press Publishers was founded as an independent trade publishing firm in Philadelphia in 1972. In 2002 the firm was acquired by the Perseus Books Group. See www.perseusbooks.com.	2008
Ryerson Press	Ryerson Press was founded in 1829 by Egerton Ryerson, initially with the name Methodist Book and Publishing House. The firm was owned by the United Church until 1970, when it was acquired by the McGraw-Hill Book Company of Canada, subsequently McGraw-Hill Ryerson. See www.macgrawhill.ca.	2008
S. Pearson and Son	S. Pearson and Son is one of the forerunner companies of the Pearson Group. It was founded in 1844 as a small building firm. See the company history pages of www.pearson.com.	2007
S. W. Partridge and Co.	The printing and publishing firm of S. W. Partridge and Co. was founded in 1850. According to 'The Writers' and Artists' Year Book 1939', in 1930 the firm was purchased by A. & C. Black. S. W. Partridge and Co. continued publishing until World War II, but appears to have been discontinued during the war. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black.	2010
Saalfield Publishing Company	The Saalfield Publishing Company was founded in Akron, Ohio in 1900 by Arthur J. Saalfield, who had taken over the publishing assets of the Werner Company. The firm developed a specialism in books in the names of motion picture stars, including Shirley Temple, Marilyn Monroe and Woody Woodpecker. The firm ceased operations and went out of existence in 1977. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 324.	2009
Sagamore Press	The publishing firm of Sagamore Press was acquired by Thomas Yoseloff, Inc. around 1957. See the FOB entry for Thomas Yoseloff, Inc., which indicates that the firm merged with A. S. Barnes & Co. in 1958 and in 1978 the merged firm was acquired by Leisure Dynamics, Inc., shortly after which it disappeared from the world of publishing.	2008
Saturday Review Press	Saturday Review Press was established in 1971 as the successor firm to McCall Books (q.v.). In 1973 Saturday Review Press was sold to E. P. Dutton and Company, which is now part of the Penguin Group. The use of the name Saturday Review Press ceased in 1977. See us.penguingroup.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 328.	2008
Saxon Publishers	Saxon Publishers was established as a skills-based math instruction publisher. In 2004 Saxon Publishers was acquired by 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 saxonpublishers.harcourtachieve.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008
Scarecrow Press	"Scarecrow Press was purchased in 1995 by University Press of America and moved from its Metuchen, New Jersey, headquarters to Lanham, Maryland, where it is now a member of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group." Quoted from www.scarecrowpress.com. See also www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008

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