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| W. H. Freeman and Company | The publishing firm of W. H. Freeman and Company was founded by William H. Freeman in 1946. In 1986 W. H. Freeman was acquired by the Holtzbrinck group, and in 1996 it was formed into a division with Bedford Books, St Martin's Press and Worth Publishers. See www.bfwpub.com. | 2009 |
| W. J. Watt and Company | William J. Watt founded his own publishing firm in New York in 1908, publishing mostly fiction. The firm went out of business in 1928 and Watt died in 1948. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 375. | 2008 |
| Wace Corporate Print | The firm of Wace Corporate Print was purchased by The Print Factory in 2005. See www.tpfgroup.co.uk. | 2008 |
| Walter H. Baker Company | George M. Baker purchased the play division of Herbert Sweet and Company (q.v.) in 1872 and renamed the firm George M. Baker and Company. The firm was managed by Baker's brother Walter H. Baker, and was renamed the Walter H. Baker Company in 1892. The firm now trades as Baker's Plays. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 35-37, and see www.bakersplays.com. | 2009 |
| Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd | The Newcastle-upon-Tyne printing and publishing firm of Walter Scott came into existence in 1882 when Walter Scott took over the assets of Tyne Publishing Company. The firm declined after Scott's death in 1910 and was finally wound up in 1931. See John R. Turner: 'Conditions for success as a provincial publisher in late nineteenth-century England', Publishing history 41 (1997). | 2008 |
| Warren C. Platt | The firm of Warren C. Platt was founded as a petroleum-industry publisher. In 1953 the firm was acquired by McGraw-Hill. See www.mcgraw-hill.com. | 2008 |
| Waterfront Communications | Waterfront Communications was the personal company of the Scottish publisher Paul Harris. The firm has closed, and Paul Harris moved to work as an editor in Sri Lanka and more recently in Shanghai. | 2007 |
| Werner Company | The Werner Company was founded in Chicago in 1892 by Paul E. Werner. In 1897 the firm moved to Akron, Ohio. In 1900 the publishing arm of the company was purchased by its sales manager, Arthur J. Saalfield, who established the Saalfield Publishing Company. In 1902 the Werner School-Book Company was purchased by the American Book Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 480; the FOB entry for Saalfield Publishing Company; and www.americanbookcompany.com. | 2009 |
| West, Johnston and Company | The publishing firm of West, Johnston and Company was founded in Richmond, Virginia in 1860 by John Montgomery West and Thomas Johnston. For its first six years the firm was known as West and Johnston. The firm was in financial difficulty in the 1890s and went bankrupt in 1896. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 482. | 2009 |
| Western Publishing Company | Western Printing and Lithographing Company was founded in Racine, Wisconsin around 1910. In 1916 Western acquired the Hamming-Whitman Company (q.v.) and in 1960 changed its name to Western Publishing Company. See the FOB entry for Golden Books, its best known imprint. In the 1980s Western Publishing changed its name to Golden Books Family Entertainment. In 1999 the firm filed for bankruptcy. In 2001 all the publishing assets of the firm were acquired by Random House, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.randomhouse.com/golden. | 2008 |
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