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Stein & Buchheister	The music publishing firm of Stein & Buchheister was active in Detroit in the 1850s and 1860s. Its owners were Charles F. Stein and William Buchheister. The firm went out of existence around 1865, when Stein returned to Germany and Buchheister was confined in an insane asylum. See 'Music printing and publishing' / edited by D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie (1990).	2007
Stein and Day Publishers	The firm of Stein and Day Publishers was founded by Sol Stein and Patricia Day in New York in 1962. In 1989 the firm was forced into bankruptcy. The principal creditor was Bookcrafters (later Sheridan Books). See Sol Stein's account of the legal proceedings in 'Bankruptcy: a feast for lawyers' (1989). The archives of Stein and Day are housed in Columbia University Library.	2008
Sterling Publishing	Sterling Publishing was established as a specialist US publisher of books for enthusiasts. The firm was acquired by Barnes & Noble in 2003. See www.barnesandnobleinc.com.	2008
Stevens & Sons	The legal publishing firm of Stevens & Sons was founded in 1810. In 1950 it was merged with Sweet & Maxwell, which is now part of the Thomson Corporation. See the FOB entry for Sweet & Maxwell; www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.thomson.com.	2006
Stewart Kidd Company	Stewart Kidd Company was a publishing firm based in Cincinatti, founded in 1910. In 1924 the firm was purchased by D. Appleton & Company, later Appleton-Century-Crofts. See the FOB entry for Appleton-Century-Crofts, which indicates that part of the firm has passed into the ownership of Pearson Education and part into the ownership of the Academic Learning Company.	2008
Stone and Kimball	The publishing firm of Stone and Kimball was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1893 by Herbert S. Stone and Hannibal Ingalls Kimball Jr. The firm went out of business in 1897, when some but not all of its assets were acquired by Herbert S. Stone and Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 440-443, and see the FOB entry for Herbert S. Stone and Company.	2009
Story Classics Press	The publishing firm of Story Classics Press was acquired by Thomas Yoseloff, Inc. in 1956. See 'Publishers Weekly', 20 August 1956, and see the FOB entry for Thomas Yoseloff, Inc., which indicates that the firm merged with A. S. Barnes & Co. in 1958 and in 1978 the merged firm was acquired by Leisure Dynamics, Inc., shortly after which it disappeared from the world of publishing.	2008
Storychair	Storychair was an imprint of Transworld Publishing in the 1980s. See the FOB entry for Transworld Publishing, which indicates that Transworld is now part of Bertelsmann's Random House Group. See www.booksattransworld.co.uk and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Stratemeyer Syndicate	The Stratemeyer Syndicate was founded by Edward Stratemeyer for the mass production of children's stories. For many years the syndicate was closely associated with Grosset & Dunlap, but following extensive legal proceedings it was acquired by Simon & Schuster in 1987.	2007
Strebor Books	Strebor Books was founded as an African American publishing firm by the author Zane in 1999. In 2006 the firm was acquired by Simon & Schuster. See www.simonsays.com.	2008

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