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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
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
Religious Tract Society	The Lutterworth Press website states that "The Lutterworth Press was founded as the Religious Tract Society in Georgian London". See www.lutterworth.com.	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
Robert Snow Means Co. Inc.	The Massachusetts publishing firm of Robert Snow Means Co. Inc. was purchased by McCorquodale in 1985. See the FOB entry for McCorquodale.	2008
Roycroft Printing Shop	The Roycroft Printing Shop was founded in East Aurora, New York, in 1895 by Elbert Hubbard and others. It became a printing and publishing firm influenced by William Morris and the Kelmscott Press. Hubbard and his wife died in the sinking of the 'Lusitania' in 1915. The firm was continued by Elbert Hubbard II, until it went bankrupt in 1938. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 401-406.	2009
S. Colman	Samuel Colman founded his bookselling and publishing firm in Portland, Maine around 1830 and moved the firm to New York in the early 1830s. The firm went out of business in 1846. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 100.	2009
S. Fischer Verlag	The German publishing firm of S. Fischer Verlag was founded by Samuel Fischer in 1886. In the 1960s the firm was acquired by Deutscher Bücherbund, part of the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH. Although Deutscher Bücherbund was sold by Holtzbrinck to Kirch in 1989, S. Fischer Verlag remains part of the Holtzbrinck Group. See www.holtzbrinck.com and www.fischerverlage.de.	2008
S. Pearson and Son	S. Pearson and Son is one of the forerunner companies of the Pearson Group. It was founded in 1844 as a small building firm. See the company history pages of www.pearson.com.	2007

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