Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is an American
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of the American Dutch publishing conglomerate
Wolters Kluwer. It was established by the acquisition of Williams & Wilkins and its merger with
J.B. Lippincott Company
J. B. Lippincott & Co. was an American publishing house founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1836 by Joshua Ballinger Lippincott. It was incorporated in 1885 as J. B. Lippincott Company.
History 1836–1977
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in 1998. Under the LWW
brand, Wolters Kluwer, through its Health Division, publishes scientific, technical, and medical content such as textbooks, reference works, and over 275
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Overview
LWW grew out of the gradual consolidation of various earlier independent publishers by Wolters Kluwer. Predecessor Wolters Samson acquired Raven Press of New York in 1986. Wolters Samson merged with Kluwer in 1987. The merged company bought
J. B. Lippincott & Co. of Philadelphia in 1990; it merged Lippincott with the Raven Press to form Lippincott-Raven in 1995. In 1997 and 1998, Wolters Kluwer acquired
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Science (owner of the
Current Opinion medical journals), and Plenum and merged the medical publications of each with Lippincott-Raven. In 1998, Wolters Kluwer bought Waverly, parent of Williams & Wilkins of
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and merged it into Lippincott-Raven to form LWW. Waverly had acquired Lea & Febiger of Philadelphia in 1990. In 2000, Wolters Kluwer bought Springhouse Corporation from
Reed Elsevier.
In 2002 LWW ceased being an operating company and completed the path to being simply a brand of the conglomerate.
Lippincott had its headquarters in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, with other
United States locations in
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,
Maryland,
New York City,
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Hagerstown,
Maryland, and
Ambler,
Pennsylvania, as well as locations in
London,
Hong Kong, and
Sydney
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. Most of those offices are still in service under Wolters Kluwer.
History
The publisher had its origins in a Philadelphia bookstall opened by Benjamin Warner and Jacob Johnson in 1792. Joshua Ballinger Lippincott assumed control of the firm in 1836. In 1978, the company (then named
J. B. Lippincott Company
J. B. Lippincott & Co. was an American publishing house founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1836 by Joshua Ballinger Lippincott. It was incorporated in 1885 as J. B. Lippincott Company.
History 1836–1977
Joshua Ballinger Lippincott (Marc ...
) was sold to
Harper & Row, at which point it began to focus its publishing activities exclusively in health care; in 1990, it was sold by
News Corporation to
Wolters Kluwer. It was later merged with Raven Press in 1995 to become Lippincott-Raven Publishers, which then merged with Williams & Wilkins, ultimately forming Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in 1998.
See also
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Journals published by LWW
References
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1792 establishments in Pennsylvania
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