| Parent company | Private,Elsevier |
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| Founded | 1888; 138 years ago (1888) |
| Founder | Walter Burns Saunders |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Philadelphia |
| Nonfiction topics | Medicine |
| Official website | store |
Saunders is an Americanacademic publisher based in the United States. It is currently animprint ofElsevier.
Formerly independent, the W. B. Saunders company was acquired byCBS in 1968, who added it to their publishing divisionHolt, Rinehart & Winston. When CBS left the publishing field in 1986, it sold the academic publishing units toHarcourt Brace Jovanovich. Harcourt was acquired byReed Elsevier in 2001.[1]
W. B. Saunders published theKinsey Reports andDorland's medical reference works. Elsevier still sells the latter under the Saunders imprint.
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