Bantam Books




For the U.K. publishing house, see Bantam Press.


































Bantam Books
Bantam Books
Parent company Random House
Founded 1945; 74 years ago (1945)
Founder
Walter B. Pitkin, Jr.
Sidney B. Kramer
Ian Ballantine
Betty Ballantine
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location
New York City, New York
Imprints
Spectra
Skylark
Official website bantam-dell.atrandom.com

Bantam Books is an American publishing house owned entirely by parent company Random House, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House; it is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group. It was formed in 1945 by Walter B. Pitkin, Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine, with funding from Grosset & Dunlap and Curtis Publishing Company. It has since been purchased several times by companies including National General, Carl Lindner's American Financial and, most recently, Bertelsmann; it became part of Random House in 1998, when Bertelsmann purchased it to form Bantam Doubleday Dell.[1] It began as a mass market publisher, mostly of reprints of hardcover books, with some original paperbacks as well. It expanded into both trade paperback and hardcover books, including original works, often reprinted in house as mass-market editions.




Contents






  • 1 History


  • 2 Books published


    • 2.1 Bantam Classics




  • 3 Authors


  • 4 Books originally published by Bantam


  • 5 See also


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links





History


The company was failing when Oscar Dystel, who had previously worked at Esquire and as editor on Coronet magazine was hired in 1954 to manage it. By the end of the next year the company was profitable. Dystel retired as chairman in 1980. By that time Bantam was the largest publisher of paperbacks, had over 15% of the market, and exceeded US$100 million in sales.[2]


In 1964, Grosset & Dunlap acquired full ownership of Bantam from Curtis.[3] In 1968, Grosset & Dunlap was acquired by conglomerate National General, run by Gene Klein.[4] National General was acquired by American Financial Group in 1973.[5] American Financial sold Bantam to the Italian firm IFI in 1974.[6]Bertelsmann acquired half of Bantam in 1977 and assumed full ownership in 1980.[7][8] In 1986, Bertelsmann acquired Doubleday & Company and created the holding Bantam Doubleday Dell.[9] In 1998, Bertelsmann acquired Random House from Advance Publications; Random House became the name of the holding company.[10] After the merger, Bantam was merged with Dell Publishing.[11]Ballantine Books was merged with Bantam Dell in 2010.[12] In 2013, Random House merged with Penguin to form Penguin Random House.[13]



Books published


Bantam has published the entire original run of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series of children's books, as well as the first original novels based upon the Star Trek franchise, publishing about a dozen such books between 1970 and 1982, when the license was taken over by Pocket Books. Bantam also published a dozen volumes of short story adaptations of scripts from Star Trek: The Original Series. Bantam is the American paperback publisher of The Guinness Book of Records. Another series was "Bantam War Book" from the 1970s to the 90s, with the majority of books from World War II, but also from Vietnam, Korea and other conflicts.


Other series include Bantam Classics, the Bantam Spectra science fiction imprint, the juvenile Skylark imprint, and editions of Shakespeare.



Bantam Classics


The series was started in 1958. It reprints mostly public domain, unabridged classic books, intended to increase backlist sales and reintroduce the works to new audiences. More than a hundred books have been released in the series.[14][15]


Like competing editions, some Bantam Classics are printed with an introduction from a literary critic, and in the case of Moby Dick, with a selection of critical essays on the novel appended as well.[16]



Authors


Authors originally published exclusively or significantly by Bantam include:















Books originally published by Bantam




  • Spock Must Die!, James Blish


  • Ishmael, Daniel Quinn


  • The Gap Cycle, Stephen R. Donaldson


  • The Saddle Club series


  • Time Machine series

  • Blackmark

  • Skinny Legs and All

  • Jitterbug Perfume

  • Still Life with Woodpecker

  • The Further Adventures of The Joker

  • Who Is Guru Maharaj Ji?

  • Interstellar Pig

  • Talking Straight

  • A Brief History of Time

  • Flags of Our Fathers

  • The Wolf of Wall Street


  • Halloween by Curtis Richards (pseudonym used by author Dennis Etchison)

  • Hannah's Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived



See also




  • Rafael Palacios, early book jacket artist at Bantam


References





  1. ^ Andrews, Edmund L. (29 March 1998). "The World: Bertelsmann Swallows Random House; American Pop Culture, Foreign-Owned". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 August 2014..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ Martin, Douglas (May 29, 2014). "Oscar Dystel, Who Saved Bantam Books, Dies at 101". The New York Times. p. B19. Retrieved May 29, 2014. ... combined sharp editorial judgments, shrewd marketing and attention-grabbing covers to propel Bantam Books from the brink of collapse to pre-eminence in paperback publishing after World War II ...


  3. ^ "Curtis Sells Stake in 3 Book Concerns". The New York Times. 1964-02-13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.


  4. ^ "Grosset & Dunlap, Publisher, Acquired by National General". The New York Times. 1968-03-15. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.


  5. ^ Wilcke, Gerd (1973-11-08). "$32.7‐Million Deal Completed By British Unit of Sterling Drug". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.


  6. ^ "Italians Buy Bantam". The New York Times. 1974-11-29. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.


  7. ^ Mitgang, Herbert (1977-09-08). "Bertelsmann Group Buys Control Of Bantam Books From Italians". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.


  8. ^ "COMPANY NEWS; Arab Investors Fail In Bank Group Bid Bertelsmann Buys All of Bantam Books Kodak Sees Stability In Silver Markets American Financial Votes Incentive Plan 2d Cavenham Letter On Diamond Merger Itel in Debt Accord Engelhard Hints Hunt Oil Land Swap COMPANY BRIEFS". The New York Times. 1980-05-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.


  9. ^ Tagliabue, John (1984-07-23). "German Publisher Widens U.s. Role". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.


  10. ^ Random House Company History, from Fundinguniverse.com Archived 4 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed April 13, 2008.


  11. ^ Carvajal, Doreen (1999-05-28). "Bertelsmann Is Reorganizing Random House". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-20.


  12. ^ "Ballantine and Bantam Dell Come Together Under McGuire". Publishers Lunch. 2010-04-13. Retrieved 2019-01-20.


  13. ^ Bosman, Julie (2013-07-01). "Penguin and Random House Merge, Saying Change Will Come Slowly". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2016-04-04.


  14. ^ [1][dead link]


  15. ^ "Lewiston Morning Tribune - Google News Archive Search". News.google.com. Retrieved 28 December 2018.


  16. ^ Melville, Herman (1981). Walcutt, Charles Child, ed. Moby-Dick (Bantam Classics ed.). Bantam. pp. viii–xii, 549–593. ISBN 0553213113.




External links



  • Official website


  • Bantam Books at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)









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