< William Sloane Associates |
William Sloane Associates | The publishing firm of William Sloane Associates was founded in New York in 1946. In 1952 the firm was acquired by William Morrow & Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), pp. 347-349, and see the FOB entry for William Morrow & Company, which indicates that in 1999 the firm was acquired by News Corporation and incorporated into HarperCollins. See www.newscorp.com and www.harpercollins.com. | 2008 |
William Sinclair | William Sinclair founded his printing firm in Otley, Yorkshire in 1837. The firm adopted the trading name of Silvine, which was registered in 1901. See www.silvine.com. | 2007 |
William S. Damrell | The publishing firm of Ford and Damrell was founded in Boston in 1833 by John Ford and William S. Damrell. In 1835 the partners separated and Damrell ran his own firm. From 1837 to 1848 the firm traded as Whipple and Damrell, before reverting to William S. Damrell and occasionally Damrell and Moore. The firm went out of business in 1861. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 113. | 2009 |
William Rider & Son | The publishing firm of William Rider & Son was founded in 1908. The firm was acquired by Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann, and Rider is now a Random House imprint. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 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 R. Scott, Inc. | The publishing firm of William R. Scott, Inc. was founded in New York in 1938. In 1970 the firm was acquired by Addison-Wesley, which is now part of the Pearson Group. See www.pearson.com and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 329. | 2008 |
William Parks | William Parks founded his own publishing firm in Annapolis, Maryland in 1726. Parks died in 1750, and the firm went out of existence. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 353. | 2009 |
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 Kimber | William Kimber was purchased by Thorsons in 1988. Thorsons was purchased by William Collins in 1989. William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990, and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers. See www.newscorp.com. The Thorsons name is still used by News Corporation, but the name of William Kimber has not been used for publishing since about 1989. | 2008 |
William Heinemann Ltd | William Heinemann began his publishing business in 1890. By the end of 1957, control of William Heinemann Ltd belonged to Tillings. Tillings was acquired in 1983 by BTR, who then sold the Heinemann Group to Octopus Publishing in 1985. Octopus was in turn taken over by Reed Books in 1987. In 1997 Reed Elsevier sold a number of its companies, including William Heinemann Ltd, to Random House. William Heinemann is now part of Random House UK, which is owned by Bertelsmann. See www.bertelsmann.com and www.randomhouse.co.uk. | 2008 |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Williams & Norgate | The publishing firm of Williams & Norgate was founded by Sydney Williams and Frederick Norgate and flourished from the 1830s to the 1950s. According to 'Publishing and bookselling' by Frank Arthur Mumby and Ian Norrie (5th ed., 1974, p. 472) the firm was then acquired by Ernest Benn. See the FOB entry for Ernest Benn, which indicates that it was acquired by A. & C. Black in 1984. | 2009 |
| Williams and Wilkins | John Williams began printing around 1885, and subsequently founded the publishing firm of Williams and Wilkins with Henry B. Wilkins in Baltimore. See John Tebbel: 'A history of book publishing in the United States', Volume IV (1981), pp. 574-576, which describes the firm as the largest independent medical publisher in the USA in the 1970s. In 1998 the firm was acquired by the J. B. Lippincott division of Wolters Kluwer and became part of Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. See www.lww.com. | 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 |
| Windward House | Windward House was founded in 1933 as a publisher of trade editions for the Derrydale Press (q.v.). In 1936 Windward House was sold by Derrydale to Doubleday. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 46 (1986), p. 112. See the FOB entry for Doubleday & Company, which indicates that the firm is now a division of Random House. | 2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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