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| 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 |
| William Morrow & Company | William Morrow founded his publishing company in 1926. The firm remained independent until 1981, when it was acquired by the Hearst Corporation. In 1999 it was sold by Hearst to News Corporation, where it was incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com. | 2008 |
| William Rickey and Company | William Rickey and Company was a publishing company established in New York before World War I. The firm went out of business around 1913. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 119. | 2008 |
| William Wood and Company | Samuel Wood founded his bookselling and publishing firm in New York in 1804. The firm was subsequently managed by his sons and grandsons, becoming Samuel Wood and Sons and then Samuel S. and William Wood, before the name of William Wood and Company was adopted in 1863. In 1932 William Wood and Company was purchased by Williams and Wilkins of Baltimore. Williams and Wilkins is now part of the Lippincott Williams and Wilkins division of Wolters Kluwer Health. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), pp. 497-498 and see www.lww.com. | 2009 |
| Wishart and Company | Wishart and Company was founded as a radical publishing house by Ernest Edward Wishart in 1925. In 1935 the firm was merged with Martin Lawrence and became Lawrence & Wishart, for many years the publishing arm of the Communist Party of Great Britain. See www.l-w-bks.co.uk. | 2006 |
| Wm. C. Brown Publishers | Wm. C. Brown Publishers was founded by William C. Brown. The firm became part of McGraw-Hill Education in 1996, and Brown is commemorated by the William C. Brown/James H. McGraw Greater Dubuque College Scholarship Competition. See www.mcgraw-hill.com. | 2008 |
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