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St Martin's Press	After the sale of Macmillan USA, the firm of Macmillan established St Martin's Press in 1952 as its principal US subsidiary. Like Macmillan, St Martin's Press has been wholly owned since 1999 by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com.	2008
Standard & Poor's	The firm of Standard & Poor's was founded as a provider of financial information and analysis. In 1966 the firm was acquired by McGraw-Hill. See www.mcgraw-hill.com and www2.standardandpoors.com.	2008
Stanley Paul	Stanley Paul left the firm of Hutchinson in 1906 and set up his own publishing company. In 1927, however, the firm of Stanley Paul went into liquidation and it was subsequently bought by Hutchinson. See the FOB entry for Hutchinson, which indicates that Stanley Paul is now part of Random House UK and owned by Bertelsmann.	2006
Staples Press Ltd	The publishing firm of Staples Press was purchased by Macgibbon & Kee in the early 1960s, and was subsequently part of the Granada Group, where for some time the imprint Crosby Lockwood Staples was used. The archives of Staples Press, with those of Macgibbon & Kee and Crosby Lockwood Ltd, are in Glasgow University Library. Granada Publishing was acquired by William Collins in 1983. See the FOB entry for William Collins, which indicates that any surviving rights will now be owned by the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com.	2007
Steck Vaughn Publishing Corporation	Steck Vaughn Publishing Corporation was founded in 1936. In 1997-1998 the firm was acquired by the Harcourt division of Reed Elsevier. In 2007 Steck Vaughn was one of the Harcourt companies purchased from Reed Elsevier by Houghton Mifflin. See steckvaughn.harcourtachieve.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008
Stein and Day Publishers	The firm of Stein and Day Publishers was founded by Sol Stein and Patricia Day in New York in 1962. In 1989 the firm was forced into bankruptcy. The principal creditor was Bookcrafters (later Sheridan Books). See Sol Stein's account of the legal proceedings in 'Bankruptcy: a feast for lawyers' (1989). The archives of Stein and Day are housed in Columbia University Library.	2008
Sterling Publishing	Sterling Publishing was established as a specialist US publisher of books for enthusiasts. The firm was acquired by Barnes & Noble in 2003. See www.barnesandnobleinc.com.	2008
Story Classics Press	The publishing firm of Story Classics Press was acquired by Thomas Yoseloff, Inc. in 1956. See 'Publishers Weekly', 20 August 1956, and 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
Sutton Publishing	Sutton Publishing was founded by Alan Sutton, and was subsequently in the ownership of Guernsey Press and Haynes, before being bought back by Alan Sutton's NPI Media company in January 2007. See the FOB entry for NPI Media, which indicates that the firm is now in the ownership of the History Press, Charleston, South Carolina (www.historypress.net).	2008
Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers	Swets & Zeitlinger was founded in 1916 and based in Lisse, the Netherlands. In 2003 Swets & Zeitlinger was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.tandf.co.uk/swets.asp.	2008

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