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Website. abebooks .com. AbeBooks ( / ˈeɪb.bʊks / AYB-buuks[ 1]) is an e-commerce global online marketplace with seven websites that offer books, fine art, and collectables from sellers in over 50 countries. Launched in 1996, it specialises in used, rare and out-of-print books. AbeBooks has been a subsidiary of Amazon since 2008.
History. Pocket Books produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in the United States in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry. The German Albatross Books had pioneered the idea of a line of color-coded paperback editions in 1931 under Kurt Enoch, and Penguin Books in Britain had refined the idea in 1935 and ...
Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. The company was acquired by Random House in April 1960, and a British division was set up in 1990. After Random House merged with Bantam Doubleday Dell, Doubleday's Anchor Books trade paperback line was added to the ...
Official website. www .puffin .co .uk. Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world. [ 1] The imprint now belongs to Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of the German media ...
Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, [ 3] as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. [ 4] Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths ...
Official website. www.penguin.com. Ace Books is a publisher of science fiction (SF) and fantasy books founded in New York City in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn. It began as a genre publisher of mysteries and westerns, and soon branched out into other genres, publishing its first science fiction title in 1953. This was successful, and science fiction ...
Books. Official website. www .eburypublishing .co .uk /bbcbooks .asp. BBC Books (also formerly known as BBC Consumer Publishing and BBC Publishing) is an imprint majority-owned and managed by Penguin Random House through its Ebury Publishing division. The minority shareholder is BBC Studios, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting ...
Pelican Books is a non-fiction imprint of Penguin Books [ 1] founded by Allen Lane and V. K. Krishna Menon. [ 2] It publishes inexpensive paperbacks of academic topics intended to reach a broader audience. The imprint originally operated from 1937 to 1984, [ 3] and was relaunched in April 2014. [ 4][ 5]