Ballantine Books | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 03/10/2019

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00:00:33 1 History
00:02:48 2 Science fiction and fantasy books
00:06:13 3 Cartoons, comics and humor books
00:08:18 4 Ballantine authors



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Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann in 1998 and remains part of that company today. Ballantine's logo is a pair of mirrored letter Bs back to back. The firm's early editors were Stanley Kauffmann and Bernard Shir-Cliff.