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R. H. Russell and Son	Robert H. Russell founded his publishing firm in New York in 1888, in association with his son Robert Jr. The firm began with the purchase of the A. T. B. DeWitt Publishing Company. In 1903 the firm was acquired by Harper and Brothers (later Harper and Row). See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 407; 'Publishers Weekly' 63 (28 March 1903); and the FOB entry for Harper and Row.	2009
R. R. Bowker	The publishing, bibliographical and ISBN firm of R. R. Bowker was founded in the 1870s. In 1967 the firm was acquired by the Xerox Corporation, which sold it to Reed International (later Reed Elsevier) in 1985. While owned by Reed Elsevier, the firm often traded as Bowker-Saur. In 2001 Bowker was sold by Reed Elsevier to Cambridge Information Group. See www.bowker.com.	2008
R. S. Peale and Company	R. S. Peale and Company was one of several publishing houses which merged in 1892 to form the Werner Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 480 and see the FOB entry for the Werner Company.	2009
Rabbit Ears	The firm of Rabbit Ears Productions was founded by Mark Sottnick in 1985. The firm passed through various management arrangements, including a distribution agreement with Simon & Schuster and ownership by Microleague Multimedia, before it was purchased in 2006 by Listening Library, the children's division of Random House Audio, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/audio.	2008
Rainbird Publishing Group	Rainbird was bought by Penguin UK in March 1985. Penguin UK is part of Pearson plc. See www.pearson.com.	2008
Random Century	Random House UK was known as the "Random Century Group Limited" from 1989 to 1992, when it was renamed "Random House UK Limited". Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Random House	Random House was established by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer in 1927 as the successor firm to The Modern Library (q.v.). Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and is now a corporate division of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com; www.randomhouse.com; and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008
Rawson Associates	According to the Simon & Schuster website, Rawson Associates was part of Atheneum Publishers at the time of the acquisition of Atheneum by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1978. See the FOB entry for Atheneum Publishers, which indicates that Atheneum was included in the part of Charles Scribner's Sons which was acquired by Simon & Schuster in 1994. See www.simonsays.com.	2008
Reader's Digest Association	Reader's Digest Association (RDA) was founded in 1921-22 by DeWitt and Lila Acheson Wallace. In 2007 Reader's Digest Association was purchased by the private equity firm Ripplewood Holdings LLC. See www.rd.com.	2008
Red Fox	Red Fox was founded around 1990 and is an imprint of Random House UK. Random House was purchased by Bertelsmann AG in 1998 and now functions as a "corporate division" of Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk.	2008

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