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Edusoft	The firm of Edusoft was acquired by Houghton Mifflin in 2003. See www.hmco.com.	2008
Ernst & Sohn	The German publishing firm Ernst & Sohn is now part of the VCH group, which in turn is part of Wiley. See www.wiley-vch.de.	2008
Everybody's Books	Everybody's Books was a publisher of popular fiction in the post-war period. According to Steve Holland, the firm went out of business in 1948. See Steve Holland: 'The mushroom jungle: a history of postwar paperback publishing' (1993), p. 19.	2008
Everyman Library	J. M. Dent published the Everyman Library from 1906. Dent was purchased by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1988. Weidenfeld & Nicolson is now part of the Orion Group. See the Weidenfeld & Nicolson entry in FOB and www.orionbooks.co.uk. The names of Dent and Everyman are still used by Orion Books. In the USA Everyman's Library is now published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House. See www.randomhouse.com.	2008
Eyre & Spottiswoode	The firm of Eyre & Spottiswoode was founded in 1770. In 1989 the firm was purchased by Cambridge University Press from the Octopus Group. See www.cambridge.org.	2006
F. J. Schulte and Company	Francis J. Schulte founded his publishing firm in Chicago in 1889. The firm went out of existence around 1900. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 411.	2009
F. S. Crofts Company	F. S. Crofts Company was a publishing firm founded in 1924. In 1948 the firm merged with Appleton-Century and became 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 and part into the ownership of the Academic Learning Company.	2008
Farrar, Straus & Giroux	The publishing firm of Farrar, Straus & Company was founded by John Farrar and Roger Straus in 1946. The firm was renamed Farrar, Straus & Young and then Farrar, Straus & Cudahy before becoming Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1964. In 1994 Farrar, Straus & Giroux was purchased by the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck and became part of Macmillan. See www.holtzbrinck.com and us.macmillan.com.	2008
Fodor's	Fodor's was founded by Eugene Fodor in 1936, and was purchased by Random House in 1986. Fodor's Travel is now a division of Random House Inc., which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.fodors.com and www.bertelsmann.com.	2008
Four Seas Company	The Four Seas Company was founded as a publishing firm in Boston in 1910 by Edmund R. Brown. In 1930 Four Seas was one of a number of Boston firms which merged to form Bruce Humphries. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 73 & 154; the FOB entries for Bruce Humphries and its successor firm Branden Press; and www.brandenbooks.com.	2008

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