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Silver Burdett Company	Silver Burdett Company was founded (as Silver & Co.) in the 1880s as an education publishing house. The firm was purchased in 1985-86 by Simon & Schuster. In 1998 all the Simon & Schuster educational businesses, including Silver Burdett Company, were sold to Pearson, which formed a new company called Pearson Education. The name of Silver Burdett is preserved in the Pearson imprint of Silver Burdett Ginn. See www.pearsoned.com.	2008
Silver Burdett Ginn Religion	See the FOB entry for Silver Burdett Company for the history of Silver Burdett Ginn. In 2007 Silver Burdett Ginn Religion was separated from the rest of Silver Burdett Ginn and sold by Pearson Education to the RCL Benziger division of CFM Religion Publishing Group. See 'Publishers weekly', 7 September 2007, and www.rclweb.com.	2008
Silver Whistle	Silver Whistle was established as a children's imprint of Harcourt, Brace & Company. See the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace. From 2007 Silver Whistle is an imprint of Harcourt Children's Books, within Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. See www.hmhco.com and www.harcourtbooks.com.	2008
Simpkin Marshall Ltd	The publishing and wholesaling firm of Simpkin Marshall was founded in 1779. The firm ceased trading and declared bankruptcy in 1955. See reports in 'The Times', April-June 1955. According to 'The Times', 25 May 1955, the assets of the firm and its good will were purchased by Hatchards. See www.hatchards.co.uk.	2008
Sir Richard Phillips	The bookselling, printing and publishing firm of Sir Richard Phillips (1767-1940) worked closely with the firm of Longman (then Longman, Hurst, Rees and Co.) and was eventually taken over by them. See the FOB entry for Longman, which is now part of the Pearson Group, and www.pearson.com.	2006
Sleeping Bear Press	Sleeping Bear Press was founded as a publisher of books on golf and for children in the 1990s and had its first success with 'The Legend of Sleeping Bear' in 1998. In 2002 the firm sold off many of its assets, including its golf, sports and regional books, sold to Clock Tower Press. Ann Arbor Press (q.v.) and other selected publishing assets were sold to Wiley at the same time. The remainder of the company was sold to Gale, and Sleeping Bear Press is now an imprint of Gale Cengage. See www.sleepingbearpress.com.	2008
Small, Maynard and Company	The publishing firm of Small, Maynard and Company was founded in Boston in 1897 by Herbert Small and Laurens Maynard. The firm was in financial difficulty by the mid-1920s. In 1926 it sold some of its titles to Dodd, Mead and Company (q.v.) and in 1927 it was declared bankrupt and went out of business. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 426-430.	2009
Smith, Elder & Co.	The firm of Smith and Elder was founded by George Smith senior and Alexander Elder in 1816. It became Smith, Elder & Co. in 1824. In 1917 Smith, Elder & Co. was taken over by the firm of John Murray. See the FOB entry for John Murray, which is now part of the Hachette group.	2009
Society for the Publication of American Music	The Society for the Publication of American Music (SPAM) was founded by Burnet C. Tuthill in New York in 1919. In 1969 the society was dissolved and the residue of its music stock was made over to its publisher, the Theodore Presser Company. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990) and www.presser.com.	2007
Sol Bloom	The publishing list of Sol Bloom was purchased by M. Witmark & Sons in 1907. See the FOB entry for M. Witmark & Sons, which indicates that the firm is now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2009

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