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Reynal and Company	Eugene Reynal left Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1955 and established his own publishing firm in New York. (See the FOB entry for Reynal and Hitchcock for his earlier publishing career.) After Reynal's death in 1968, his firm was acquired by William Morrow & Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 318, and see the FOB entry for William Morrow & Company, which indicates that in 1999 the firm was acquired by News Corporation and incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com.	2008
Reynal and Hitchcock	The publishing firm of Reynal and Hitchcock was founded by Eugene Reynal and Curtice Hitchcock in New York in 1933. After Hitchcock's death in 1946, Reynal sold the firm to Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1948. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 318 and see the FOB entries for Harcourt, Brace & Company and (for later years) Reynal and Company.	2008
Richard Bentley & Son	Richard Bentley was part of the firm of Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley from 1829 for three years. He then founded the firm of Richard Bentley in 1832. In 1898 the firm of Richard Bentley & Son was purchased by Macmillan. See the FOB entry for Macmillan.	2006
Richard G. Badger and Company	The publishing firm of Richard G. Badger and Company was founded in Boston around 1896. In 1932 the firm was purchased by Bruce Humphries. See the FOB entry for Bruce Humphries, and see 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 32.	2009
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
Riker, Thorne	John C. Riker founded his bookselling and publishing firm in New York in 1832. The firm was renamed Riker, Thorne in 1849 and ceased publishing around 1857. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 391.	2009
Rinehart and Company	The publishing firm of Rinehart and Company (previously Farrar & Rinehart) merged with the firms of Henry Holt and Company and John C. Winston Company in 1959-1960 to form Holt, Rinehart and Winston. See the FOB entry for Holt, Rinehart and Winston, which indicates that the firm is now part of Harcourt Education, which in turn is part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.harcourt.com and www.hmhco.com.	2008
Riverdeep	The Irish publishing firm Riverdeep was founded in 1995. In 2006 the firm merged with Houghton Mifflin, and was briefly known as Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep or HM Riverdeep. It now forms part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com.	2008

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