has multiple issues . please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources the wooster book company news newspapers books scholar jstor free images january 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . january 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . january 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message wooster book company type private industry retail publishing founded wooster ohio 1992 founder carol a. rueger and david wiesenberg headquarters wooster ohio products books website www.woosterbook.com the wooster book company is a publishing firm and bookstore located in wooster ohio . contents 1 company profile 2 history 3 awards 4 external links 5 references company profile edit the wooster book company promotes and develops literary works of regional interest to ohio and surrounding areas ; especially those written works which feature themes of natural history and rural living . 1 2 a small publisher with over one hundred titles the wooster book company has produced titles such as ohio s bicentennial barns and covered bridges ohio kentucky west virginia . as the publisher of books by louis bromfield one title early autumn a novel has won the pulitzer prize for fiction and one title awake and rehearse collects several o. henry prize stories . the wooster book company also publishes books by scott russell sanders a winner of the lannan foundation literary award and by wes jackson president of the land institute . the publishing company is directly affiliated with the bookstore of the same name . history edit the wooster book company was established in september 1992 as an independent bookstore . it now occupies 7 300 square feet 680 m2 with over 40 000 titles . in 2000 the wooster book company took over the sponsorship and administration of the buckeye book fair ohio s largest literary event . the book fair is open to the public with approximately one hundred authors participating in the annual day long festival . under the trade name the wooster book company its first title a corporate history of rubbermaid written by retired rubbermaid ceo and chairman of the board donald e. noble was released in 1996 . subsequent publishing projects have been done in association with the ohio state university medical center ohio department of natural resources ohio agricultural research and development center ohio library council and the american angus association . additional titles in many areas of interest have been released under isbn prefixes 1 59098 and 1 888683 . awards edit as a bellwether establishment of a downtown main street revitalization the wooster book company was the recipient of a community design commission award in 1993 for restoration and renovation and a chamber of commerce successful business award 1995 . children s programs in the bookstore were recognized with a friend of young children award in 1997 . the business expanded in 2000 rebuilt and restored its facade in 2001 as well as expanding their publishing services operation in the same year . this resulted in a second recognition for revitalization and a second nomination for a chamber of commerce successful business award in 2005 . in 2002 david wiesenberg co owner of the wooster book company was recognized with an ohioana citation for his contribution to the community and for commitment to ohio literature . 1 the wooster book company was recognized in 2008 by the ohio center for the book an affiliate of the library of congress as an advocate for the literary arts . 2 external links edit public radio profile of louis bromfield buckeye book fair great lakes independent booksellers association gliba malabar farm state park ohioana library ohio center for the book references edit 2007 profile of company in in business magazine . 2008 profile of company in cleveland jewish news retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the wooster book company & oldid 580073246 categories independent bookstores of the united statessmall press publishing companiesbook publishing companies based in ohiopublishing companies established in 1992hidden categories articles with topics of unclear notability from january 2011all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles lacking reliable references from january 2011all articles lacking reliable referencesarticles needing additional references from january 2011all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 3 november 2013 at 23 01 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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