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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
Weston Woods	Weston Woods was acquired by Scholastic in 1996. See the Milestones page of www.scholastic.com for 1996, which states: "Weston Woods, the principal innovator in the translation of picture books to audio visual media, becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Scholastic Inc."	2008
Whaley and Company	The Irish printer and publisher George Roberts briefly used the imprint of Whaley and Company, before he founded the firm of Maunsel in 1905. See the FOB entry for Maunsel and Roberts.	2008
Whatsonwhen Ltd	The online travel publisher Whatsonwhen Ltd was acquired by Wiley Europe in 2006. See eu.wiley.com.	2008
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
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
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
Whittlesley House	Whittlesley House was a trade publisher established by the McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1930 and active from the 1930s to the 1960s. See www.mcgraw-hill.com.	2008

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