Talk:J. B. Lippincott & Co.

Works section, what is it?
Works includes one book published by J. B. Lippincott & Co. in 1910, also published in London by another publisher. Why are there three citations for google books versions? Do they differ at all in content? And next, why is this the only Lippincott book listed under works? Works of the publisher would be quite long, I expect, looking at the author list. They also published the first in what became a series for Patrick O'Brian, Master and Commander, in 1969, and one of their editors asked him to write it. If no one replies, I will delete two of the duplicates under works. The question still remains, works by whom, how selected? --Prairieplant (talk) 00:46, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

History - Founding
There is a news article that places the founding of Lippincott substantially earlier than noted in the article at present - putting it at 1796. See → --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me ) 16:52, 23 June 2018 (UTC)


 * Interesting. . The founder was not born until 1813, per this google books result here, from Who was who in America, Marquis Who's Who 1963. Maybe write to the newspaper to point out the conflict in sources? For this article, the biography of the founder indicates this article has the correct year. --Prairieplant (talk) 13:43, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

What is published by a publisher seems important to me
I see that you removed anything that would indicate which authors or books this publisher supported by publishing their works. I cannot understand your reasoning that what Lippincott did while a free standing publisher is of no importance to the company's history. If the business is publishing, then the books and the authors are noteworthy to me. Several Wikipedia examples from the long list of articles on publishers where the articles include authors and books, and prize winning books, too: the article on Alfred A. Knopf and the one on Ballantine Books and the one on William Collins, Sons and the one on G. P. Putnam's Sons. Why not here as well? I will put the material back in the article; I do not want to get into a war of reverting with you. --Prairieplant (talk) 13:22, 12 August 2018 (UTC)