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| World Book Company | World Book Company was a publisher of educational materials. In 1960 the firm was acquired by Harcourt, Brace & Company, which briefly changed its name to Harcourt, Brace & World. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 390, and see the FOB entry for Harcourt, Brace & Company, which traces the firm to the formation of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2008. | 2008 |
| World Publishing Company | World Publishing Company had its origins in 1929 when Alfred Cahen bought World Syndicate Company and merged it with his own Commercial Bookbinding Company. The firm was first called World Syndicate Publishing Company and changed its name to World Publishing Company in 1940. The firm had two main publishing interests: Bibles and religious books and nonfiction reprints. In 1963 the firm was acquired by Times-Mirror and its name was gradually phased out of existence within Times-Mirror during the 1970s. In 1974 the firm's Bible and religious publishing interests were acquired by William Collins. See the FOB entries for Times-Mirror and for William Collins for information about current ownerships. | 2008 |
| Worthington Company | Richard Worthington founded his publishing firm in Boston in 1867, and moved it to New York in 1874. The firm was originally called R. Worthington & Co., and became Worthington Company in 1885. The firm was forced into receivership in 1893 and closed in 1894. See sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 499. | 2009 |
| Yachtsman Publishing Co. | Yachtsman Publishing Co. was purchased in 1953 by the firm of Adlard Coles Ltd (now Adlard Coles Nautical). See the FOB entry for Adlard Coles Nautical, which indicates that any surviving rights will belong to A. & C. Black. See www.acblack.com. | 2014 |
| Young, Stewart and M'Culloch | The printing and publishing firm of Young, Stewart and M'Culloch was founded in Philadelphia in 1785 by William Young, Peter Stewart and John M'Culloch. Stewart left the firm in 1786 and it became Young and M'Culloch. The firm later traded as William Young (1787-1797); Young, Mills and Son (1797-1798); and William Young, Printer, Bookseller and Stationer: Whitehall Press, before it went out of business around 1805. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 501. | 2009 |
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