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| SparkNotes.com | The study aids website SparkNotes.com was acquired by Barnes & Noble in 2001. See www.barnesandnobleinc.com. | 2008 |
| Sphinx Publishing | Sphinx Publishing was founded as a Florida-based self-help law publisher. In 1997 the firm was acquired by Sourcebooks, which still uses the name of Sphinx as an imprint. See www.sourcebooks.com. | 2008 |
| SR Books | The firm of SR Books was founded as the book publishing division of Scholarly Resources, Inc. Since 2004, SR Books has been an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. See www.rowmanlittlefield.com. | 2008 |
| St Martin's Press | After the sale of Macmillan USA, the firm of Macmillan established St Martin's Press in 1952 as its principal US subsidiary. Like Macmillan, St Martin's Press has been wholly owned since 1999 by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. See www.holtzbrinck.com. | 2008 |
| Stage Handbooks | The Stage Handbooks series was purchased by A. & C. Black from Pitman in 1981. See the FOB entry for A. & C. Black and www.acblack.com. | 2007 |
| Standard & Poor's | The firm of Standard & Poor's was founded as a provider of financial information and analysis. In 1966 the firm was acquired by McGraw-Hill. See www.mcgraw-hill.com and www2.standardandpoors.com. | 2008 |
| Stanley Botes Ltd | The firm of Stanley Botes Ltd (also known as Stanley Botes Booksellers) was purchased by William Collins in 1984. See the FOB entry for William Collins, which indicates that rights will now be owned by the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com. | 2007 |
| Stanley Paul | Stanley Paul left the firm of Hutchinson in 1906 and set up his own publishing company. In 1927, however, the firm of Stanley Paul went into liquidation and it was subsequently bought by Hutchinson. See the FOB entry for Hutchinson, which indicates that Stanley Paul is now part of Random House UK and owned by Bertelsmann. | 2006 |
| Staples Press Ltd | The publishing firm of Staples Press was purchased by Macgibbon & Kee in the early 1960s, and was subsequently part of the Granada Group, where for some time the imprint Crosby Lockwood Staples was used. The archives of Staples Press, with those of Macgibbon & Kee and Crosby Lockwood Ltd, are in Glasgow University Library. Granada Publishing was acquired by William Collins in 1983. See the FOB entry for William Collins, which indicates that any surviving rights will now be owned by the HarperCollins division of News Corporation. See www.newscorp.com. | 2007 |
| Steck Vaughn Publishing Corporation | Steck Vaughn Publishing Corporation was founded in 1936. In 1997-1998 the firm was acquired by the Harcourt division of Reed Elsevier. In 2007 Steck Vaughn was one of the Harcourt companies purchased from Reed Elsevier by Houghton Mifflin. See steckvaughn.harcourtachieve.com and www.hmhco.com. | 2008 |
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