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Street and Smith	The publishing firm of Street and Smith was founded in New York in 1855 by Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith. In 1921 it founded a subsidiary firm called Chelsea House (q.v.). When Chelsea House was closed in 1933, Street and Smith ceased to be book publishers but continued to publish magazines and journals. in 1959 the firm was purchased by Condé Nast. The firm continues as a sports magazine publisher. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 444-451 and see www.streetandsmiths.com.	2009
Student Book Exchange	Student Book Exchange (SBX) was a bookstore founded by Leonard Riggio in New York in 1965. By the 1970s SBX had expanded such that it was able to acquire Barnes & Noble. Thereafter the Barnes & Noble name was used for all the firm's stores. See www.barnesandnobleinc.com.	2008
Stuttgarter Hausbücherei	Stuttgarter Hausbücherei was established in 1948 as a German national book club and the first significant firm controlled by Georg von Holtzbrinck. In the late 1950s the firm was renamed Deutscher Bücherbund. Deutscher Bücherbund remained the principal company within the Holtzbrink Group until the 1980s, but in 1989 it was sold to Kirch Group. The Kirch Group (KirchGruppe) became insolvent and went out of existence in 2002. Rights in Deutscher Bücherbund appear to have been acquired by the Bertelsmann Group, and www.buecherbund.de now diverts to www.derclub.de (the website of Der Club, owned by Bertelsmann).	2008
Sunnyside Library	Sunnyside Library was a short-lived venture of Victor Adams & Co., founded in 1877. See the FOB entries for Victor Adams & Co. and Beadle and Adams.	2009
Sutton Publishing	Sutton Publishing was founded by Alan Sutton, and was subsequently in the ownership of Guernsey Press and Haynes, before being bought back by Alan Sutton's NPI Media company in January 2007. See the FOB entry for NPI Media, which indicates that the firm is now in the ownership of the History Press, Charleston, South Carolina (www.historypress.net).	2008
Swan Sonnenschein	William Swan Sonnenschein formed his first publishing firm, W. Swan Sonnenschein & Allen, in 1878. From 1882 this became W. Swan Sonnenschein & Co. In 1911 the Swan Sonnenschein company merged with George Allen & Co., and in 1914 the merged firm became George Allen & Unwin Ltd. See the FOB entry for George Allen & Unwin.	2006
Sweet & Maxwell	The legal publishing firm of Sweet & Maxwell was founded in 1799. In 1987 it was acquired by the Thomson Corporation, and it now forms part of Thomson Legal & Regulatory. See www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.thomson.com.	2006
Swets & Zeitlinger Publishers	Swets & Zeitlinger was founded in 1916 and based in Lisse, the Netherlands. In 2003 Swets & Zeitlinger was purchased by the Taylor & Francis Group. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com and www.tandf.co.uk/swets.asp.	2008
Swets Test International	Swets Test International was previously a division of Swets & Zeitlinger. In 2003 Swets Test International was acquired by the Harcourt Assessment division of Reed Elsevier. Harcourt Assessment was purchased by Pearson in 2008. See www.harcourtassessment.com and pearsonassess.com.	2008
Sybex	Sybex was established as a computer book publishing firm. In 2005 the firm was acquired by Wiley. See www.sybex.com and www.wiley.com.	2008

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