A Brief Account of the Educational Publishing Business in the United States

by William Edmond Pulsifer

THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY.

—The founder of this Philadelphia concern was Mr. John C. Winston, who was its directing head until May 6, 1920, when he died.

The Company began work in the preparation of schoolbooks in 1913, but the business end of the Educational Department was not inaugurated until March, 1918. The first books published by this Company were the Winston Series of Readers, the Young American Readers, the Winston Simplified Dictionary, and two books on civics, Our Community and Our Neighborhood.