Much of his output was for the Central Office of Information, the government's marketing and public information agency from 1946 until 2011, though he also did much work for publishers of reference works in the 1970s and 80s.
Vivendi Universal Publishing said yesterday that Hans Gieskes would be the next chief executive of its Houghton Mifflin subsidiary, a publisher of textbooks, reference books and educational materials.
Hoover's Inc., a publisher of business reference materials, agreed today to buy the closely held Powerize.com Inc. for $17.1 million in cash and stock to add a research Web site with 600,000 users.
When my marriage ended in 1977, I had been working as the publicity director for R. R. Bowker, a publisher of library reference books, and putting my kids through college, but in 1983, I decided to stay home and write.
He returned to newspaper share tipping, in the Independent, and he lent his name to a financial publisher's series of reference books on British companies.
The company approached a range of reference publishers before signing a nonexclusive contract with Funk & Wagnalls to use their 29-volume New Encyclopedia in establishing a database in 1989.
Matthew Shear, publisher of the paperback and reference group of St. Martin's Press, said, "If you know what you are doing in your marketing and with the right timing and with the author pushing and pushing, you can make it happen".
Wendy Strothman, publisher of Houghton Mifflin's trade and reference division, said Ms. Randall's book was a political comment on Mitchell's book, and thus allowed under the fair-use provisions of the copyright laws.
