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Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd	The Newcastle-upon-Tyne printing and publishing firm of Walter Scott came into existence in 1882 when Walter Scott took over the assets of Tyne Publishing Company. The firm declined after Scott's death in 1910 and was finally wound up in 1931. See John R. Turner: 'Conditions for success as a provincial publisher in late nineteenth-century England', Publishing history 41 (1997).	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
Watergate Film Services Ltd	Watergate Film Services Ltd forms part of Peters Fraser and Dunlop. See www.pfd.co.uk.	2008
Wayfarers' Library	Wayfarers' Library was a series of works devoted to modern literature, published by J. M. Dent as a companion to the Everyman Library. The first volume was published in 1913. See the FOB entry for J. M. Dent.	2006
Werner Company	The Werner Company was founded in Chicago in 1892 by Paul E. Werner. In 1897 the firm moved to Akron, Ohio. In 1900 the publishing arm of the company was purchased by its sales manager, Arthur J. Saalfield, who established the Saalfield Publishing Company. In 1902 the Werner School-Book Company was purchased by the American Book Company. See 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 480; the FOB entry for Saalfield Publishing Company; and www.americanbookcompany.com.	2009
Whatsonwhen Ltd	The online travel publisher Whatsonwhen Ltd was acquired by Wiley Europe in 2006. See eu.wiley.com.	2008
White, Stokes and Allen	The publishing firm of White, Stokes and Allen was founded in New York in 1883 by Joel Parker White, Frederick B. Stokes and Frank Allen. The firm went bankrupt in 1890. See sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile.	2009
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 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 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

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