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Iowa State Press	Iowa State Press was founded (as the Collegiate Press) in 1924. In 1999 the press was purchased by Blackwell Scientific. See www.blackwellpublishing.com (this website remains current after Blackwell became part of Wiley in February 2007).	2008
J. H. Sears Company	Joseph H. Sears founded his own publishing company in New York in 1922. The firm was reincorporated as Sears Publishing Company in 1929. In 1934 Sears Publishing Company was purchased by Dodd, Mead and Company. See the FOB entry for Dodd, Mead and Company which describes the circumstances in which that firm went out of business in 1990.	2008
J. M. Dent	J. M. Dent was founded by Joseph Malaby Dent in 1888, and published the Everyman Library from 1906. The firm was purchased by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 1988. See the Weidenfeld & Nicolson entry in FOB and www.orionbooks.co.uk. Dent is now an imprint of Orion Books, which in turn is owned by Hachette.	2008
J. S. and C. Adams	Carter and Adams was established as the publishing house of Amherst College, Massachusetts, in 1825. From 1827 the firm traded as J. S. and C. Adams. The firm went out of business in 1856 when John H. Brewster took over printing for Amherst. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 3-4.	2009
J. S. Cushing & Co.	J. S. Cushing & Co. was one of the three firms which came together as Norwood Press from 1894. After World War II, production declined and Norwood Press and its constituent companies had all closed by 1953 [information from the records of the Norwood Historical Society].	2009
J. S. Sanders & Company	J. S. Sanders founded his publishing firm in Nashville, Tennessee, publishing books about Southern US culture and history. The firm is now an imprint of Ivan R. Dee, which in turn is owned by the Rowman & Littlefield Group. See www.ivanrdee.com and www.rowmanlittlefield.com.	2008
J. W. Parker, Son and Bourne	The firm of J. W. Parker, Son and Bourne was taken over by Longman in 1863. See the FOB entry for Longman, which is now part of the Pearson Group, and www.pearson.com.	2008
Joel Munsell	Joel Munsell founded his publishing firm in Albany, New York in 1836. After his death in 1880, the firm continued as Joel Munsell's Sons. It went out of business in 1895. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 320.	2009
John Babcock and Son	John Babcock joined the printing, publishing and bookselling firm of his father Elisha Babcock in Hartford, Connecticut in 1795, and the firm soon began to use the imprint of John Babcock. From 1811 the firm moved to New Haven and became known as John Babcock and Son. The firm ceased publishing around 1824. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 31.	2009
John H. Hopkins and Son	John H. Hopkins founded his publishing firm in New York in 1934. Hopkins died in July 1939, and the firm had gone out of business by the time his son Irving G. Hopkins entered the army in 1942. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 191.	2008

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