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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
Worthington Company	Richard Worthington founded his publishing firm in Boston in 1867, and moved it to New York in 1874. The firm was originally called R. Worthington & Co., and became Worthington Company in 1885. The firm was forced into receivership in 1893 and closed in 1894. See sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile and 'Dictionary of Literary Biography' 49 (1986), p. 499.	2009
Wrightbooks Pty Ltd	Wrightbooks Pty Ltd was founded by the Australian publisher Geoff Wright in 1991. In 2001 the firm was purchased by Wiley Australia. See www.johnwiley.com.au.	2008
Wrox Press	Wrox Press was established in 1992 to publish books for computer programmers. The firm was closed down in 2003 following the insolvency of its parent company Peer Information. Rights and titles were subsequently purchased by Wiley, and Wrox is now a Wiley imprint. See www.wrox.com and www.wiley.com.	2008
Wykeham Publications	Wykeham Publications was the first book publishing imprint of Taylor & Francis, and was used from about 1965 to about 1980. See www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com.	2006
Wyndham Publications	Wyndham Publications was a publishing company run by the firm of Howard & Wyndham, whose principal interests were in London theatres. Howard & Wyndham also owned the publishing house W. H. Allen, and by the early 1980s the name of Wyndham Publications had been dropped in favour of the W. H. Allen imprint. See the FOB entry for W. H. Allen, which indicates that the firm is now owned by Virgin Books. See www.virginbooks.com.	2007

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