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Bath Street Press	Bath Street Press was purchased by Thorsons from Marshall Pickering in January 1989. Thorsons was purchased by William Collins later that same year. William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990, and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers. See www.newscorp.com. The Thorsons name is still used by News Corporation, but the name of Bath Street Press has not been used for publishing since about 1988.	2008
BBC Books	The Random House Group acquired a majority shareholding in BBC Books in 2006, and BBC Books became part of the Ebury Publishing Division of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Beacon Press	There have been several printing and publishing firms called Beacon Press. The American Unitarian Association began publishing in its own name in 1854 and began using the name Beacon Press in 1902 (now under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 42 and www.beacon.org. For a British firm with this name see www.beaconpress.co.uk.	2009
Beechurst Press	According to the obituary of Thomas Yoseloff by his daughter Tamar Yoseloff, 'The Guardian', 13 February 2008, Beechurst Press was Thomas Yoseloff's first solo publishing venture, and was founded in 1939. See the FOB entry for Thomas Yoseloff, Inc.	2008
Belhaven Press	The publishing firm of Belhaven Press was purchased by Wiley from Pinter Publishers in 1993. See www.wiley.com.	2008
Belitha Press	Belitha Press was founded as a publishing firm specialising in educational and international subjects. In 2001 the firm was taken over by Chrysalis Books, and in 2003 Chrysalis stopped using the Belitha imprint (see 'The Bookseller', 11 April 2003). In 2005 Chrysalis Books became Anova Books. See www.anovabooks.com.	2009
Belmont-Tower Books	Belmont Books was purchased by Tower Books in 1969. The imprints at first continued separately but from 1973 they were merged as Belmont-Tower Books. The firm went bankrupt in the early 1980s and its assets were sold at a bankruptcy sale in August 1982. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 361.	2008
Berkley Books	The firm of Berkley Books (also known as the Berkley Publishing Corporation) was founded in 1955. In 1965 the firm was acquired by G. P. Putnam's Sons and became part of Putnam Berkley. Putnam Berkley was bought by Penguin in 1997, and is part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com and us.penguin.com.	2008
Bios Scientific Publishers Ltd	Bios (or BIOS) Scientific Publishers Ltd was founded in 1989, and was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group in 2003. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
Blackbirch Press	Blackbirch Graphics was founded in 1979 and became Blackbirch Press in 1992. The firm was purchased in 2001 by the Thomson Gale division of the Thomson Corporation. See www.gale.com.	2006

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