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Ashbel Stoddard	Ashbel Stoddard founded his printing and publishing firm in New York in 1786. The firm went out of existence in 1820. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 432.	2009
Aslib	Aslib was founded in 1924 as the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux. In December 2004 Aslib went into liquidation. In 2005 its titles, name and rights were acquired by Routledge Reference, which is a division of Taylor & Francis. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2008
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
Bemrose & Sons	William Bemrose founded his printing and publishing company in the 1820s, initially with a strong emphasis on printing railway information. The printing side of the firm survives as BemroseBooth, which is owned by the Appleton company, of Appleton, Wisconsin (www.bemroseonline.co.uk). The publishing branch of the firm, by then known as Bemrose & Sons, was acquired in 1909 by George Allen & Sons, which became George Allen & Unwin Ltd in 1914. See the FOB entry for George Allen & Unwin.	2009
Berwick & Smith	Berwick & Smith was one of the three firms which came together as Norwood Press from 1894. After World War II, production declined and Norwood Press and its constituent companies had all closed by 1953 [information from the records of the Norwood Historical Society, Massachusetts].	2009
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
Black Swan	Black Swan is now an imprint of Transworld, which in turn is owned by the Bertelsmann Group. See www.booksattransworld.co.uk.	2006
Blackie & Son	The firm of Blackie & Son was founded by John Blackie in 1807. Most surviving Blackie rights now belong to the Pearson Group. The following quotation is taken from the pamphlet 'The firm of Blackie & Son and some of their children's books' by Morna Daniels (1999). "In 1991 the academic titles went to Blackie Academic and Professional and the school titles were acquired by Nelson and Sons, who published them under the imprint Nelson Blackie until 1995 after which they dropped the name Blackie. The children's titles were acquired by Blackie Children's Books, part of the Penguin group at 27 Wrights Lane (owned by Pearsons) but the separate imprint disappeared after 1995 and the same authors appear under the Puffin imprint. Blackie sold the Flower Fairies list to Warne, another Pearson acquisition, in 1989."	2008
Bloom's Literary Criticism	The publishing firm called Bloom's Literary Criticism was founded by Professor Harold Bloom. In 2005 the firm was sold by Haights Cross Communications to Facts on File, Inc., which is owned by Infobase Publishing. See www.infobasepublishing.com.	2008
Brentano's	August Brentano founded his bookselling and publishing firm in New York in 1885. The firm went into receivership in 1933, and was broken up. Most of the publishing business was sold to Coward-McCann; rights in Brentano's publications of George Bernard Shaw were acquired by Dodd, Mead; the bookselling business was then reformed, and is now part of the Borders group. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 66-67, and see the FOB entries for Coward-McCann Publishing Company and Dodd, Mead and Company.	2009

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