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| William Young | 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 |
| Winchester Press | Winchester Press was a publishing firm which was purchased by New Century Publishing in 1982. New Century Publishing was purchased in 1990 by Frank Gil, who changed its name to New Win Publishing. New Win Publishing was then purchased by the Academic Learning Company in 2003. The name of Winchester Press is still used by the Academic Learning Company. See www.academiclearningcompany.com. | 2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Wrightbooks Pty Ltd | Wrightbooks Pty Ltd was founded by the Australian publisher Geoff Wright in 1991. In 2001 the firm was purchased by Wiley Australia. See www.johnwiley.com.au. | 2008 |
| Wrox Press | Wrox Press was established in 1992 to publish books for computer programmers. The firm was closed down in 2003 following the insolvency of its parent company Peer Information. Rights and titles were subsequently purchased by Wiley, and Wrox is now a Wiley imprint. See www.wrox.com and www.wiley.com. | 2008 |
| Wykeham Publications | Wykeham Publications was the first book publishing imprint of Taylor & Francis, and was used from about 1965 to about 1980. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com. | 2006 |
| Wyndham Publications | Wyndham Publications was a publishing company run by the firm of Howard & Wyndham, whose principal interests were in London theatres. Howard & Wyndham also owned the publishing house W. H. Allen, and by the early 1980s the name of Wyndham Publications had been dropped in favour of the W. H. Allen imprint. See the FOB entry for W. H. Allen, which indicates that the firm is now owned by Virgin Books. See www.virginbooks.com. | 2007 |
| 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 |
| Ziff-Davis Press | Ziff-Davis Press was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1994. In 1998 Simon & Schuster's then parent company, Viacom, sold the educational businesses of Simon & Schuster (including Ziff-Davis Press) to Pearson plc. Ziff-Davis is now part of Pearson Education. See www.pearsoned.com. | 2008 |
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