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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
Whaley and Company	The Irish printer and publisher George Roberts briefly used the imprint of Whaley and Company, before he founded the firm of Maunsel in 1905. See the FOB entry for Maunsel and Roberts.	2008
Whispering Coyote Press	Whispering Coyote Press was founded as a publisher of picture books and board books. In 1999 the firm was acquired by Charlesbridge Publishing. See 'Publishers Weekly', 13 September 1999, and www.charlesbridge.com.	2008
Whitman Publishing Company	Hamming-Whitman Company was a publishing firm based in Chicago. In 1916 the firm defaulted on its bills and was taken over by its principal creditor Western Printing and Lithographing Company (later Western Publishing Company). Western moved the firm to its own headquarters in Racine, Wisconsin, and renamed it Whitman Publishing Company. By the 1980s the name Whitman was no longer being used for publishing, but continued for games and puzzles until Western went out of business. See the FOB entry for Western Publishing Company, which indicates that it is now part of the Golden Books division of Random House; www.randomhouse.com/golden; and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 383. There is no connection with the firm of Albert Whitman & Co. of Niles, Illinois (founded 1919; www.awhitmanco.com), although Albert Whitman had been one of the founders of Hamming-Whitman.	2008
Whitney-Warner Publishing Company	The Whitney-Warner Publishing Company was based in Detroit in the 1890s. In 1894 Jerome H. Remick purchased the firm and moved to New York. See the FOB entry for Jerome H. Remick, which indicates that Whitney-Warner and the Remick Music Corporation are now part of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc. See the history pages of www.warnerchappell.com.	2007
William Collins Sons & Co.	William Collins established his publishing firm in Glasgow in 1819. William Collins Sons & Co. became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990, and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers. See www.newscorp.com. In 2001 HarperCollins Publishers was reorganised into two divisions: General Books and Collins.	2008

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