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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 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 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 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 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

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