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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
Washington Square Press	Washington Square Press was purchased by the Pocket Books division of Simon & Schuster in 1959. Washington Square Press is now a division and an imprint of Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS Corporation. See www.simonsays.com.	2008
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
Westminster Press	There have been several firms called Westminster Press, including one still trading in California (see www.wpress.net). The principal historical firm originated as the owner of various English provincial newspapers, beginning with the Northern Echo in 1903. In 1921 the firm was consolidated as Westminster Press with S. Pearson and Son as the principal shareholder. Westminster Press remains part of the Pearson Group. See the company history pages of www.pearson.com.	2007
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
Whurr Publishers Ltd	Whurr Publishers Ltd was established in London as a publishing firm with a specialism in health, nursing and therapy. In 2005 the firm was acquired by Wiley. See www.wiley.com.	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 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

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