Penguin Books

Penguin Books ialah sebuah rumah penerbitan British. Ia ditubuhkan pada tahun 1935 oleh Sir Allen Lane, saudara-saudaranya Richard dan John,Allen's brothers Richard and John were co-founders and shareholders, though Allen was the dominant figure in the company. John died in service in 1942, Richard sold his share to Allen before the company went public in 1961. The Penguin Companion, pp.80-81, Penguin Collectors' Society, 2006. sebagai barisan penerbit The Bodley Head, hanya menjadi sebuah syarikat berasingan pada tahun berikutnya."About Penguin - company history" , Penguin Books. Penguin merevolusikan penerbitan pada tahun 1930-an melalui paperbacks yang murah, dijual melalui Woolworths dan kedai jalan tinggi yang lain untuk enam pekan, membawa fiksyen kertas yang berkualiti tinggi dan bukan fiksyen ke pasaran massa. Kejayaan Penguin menunjukkan bahawa penonton yang besar wujud untuk buku-buku yang serius. Penguin juga mempunyai kesan yang besar terhadap perdebatan awam di Britain, melalui buku-buku mengenai budaya, politik, seni, dan sains British.Joicey, Nicholas (1993), "A Paperback Guide to Progress: Penguin Books 1935-c.1951", Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 25-56; and Ross McKibbin Classes and Cultures: England 1918-1951, Oxford, 1998, .

Penguin Books kini menjadi jejak dari Penguin Random House, sebuah konglomerat yang baru muncul yang dibentuk pada tahun 2013 oleh penggabungan dengan penerbit Amerika Random House.Mark Sweney "Penguin and Random House merger to create biggest book publisher ever seen", The Guardian, 29 October 2012 Dahulu, Penguin Group dimiliki sepenuhnya oleh British Pearson PLC, syarikat media global yang juga memiliki Financial Times,Penguin's many divisions are listed here "About Penguin: Publishing structure".  tetapi dalam syarikat payung baru itu hanya mengekalkan pegangan minoriti sebanyak 25% daripada stoknya terhadap pemilik Random House, syarikat media Jerman Bertelsmann, yang menguasai kepentingan majoriti. Ia adalah salah satu penerbit bahasa Inggeris terbesar yang dahulunya dikenali sebagai "Enam Besar", kini "Lima Besar", bersama dengan Holtzbrinck/Macmillan, Hachette, HarperCollins, dan Simon & Schuster.

Rujukan

Bacaan lanjut
 Baines, Phil (2007): Penguin by Design: a Cover Story 1935-2005. London: Allen Lane  (published to accompany the exhibition "Penguin by design" held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 8 June – 13 November 2005).
Baines, Phil (2010): Puffin by Design: 70 years of imagination 1940-2010. London: Allen Lane.
 Penguin by Illustrators.
 Cinamon, Gerald (1987): "Hans Schmoller, Typographer", The Monotype Recorder (New Series), 6 April 1987.
 Graham, Tim (2003): Penguin in Print - a Bibliography. Penguin Collectors Society.
 Hall, David J., "King Penguins", in The Private Library Winter 1977, published by the Private Libraries Association.
 Hare, Steve (1995): Penguin Portrait: Allen Lane and the Penguin Editors, 1935–1970. London: Penguin Books.
 Joicey, Nicholas (1993): "A Paperback Guide to Progress: Penguin Books 1935–c.1951", Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 25–56.
 Kells, Stuart (2015): "Penguin and the Lane Brothers: The Untold Story of a Publishing Revolution", Black Inc., Melbourne, Australia.
 Lewis, Jeremy (2005): Penguin Special: Life and Times of Allen Lane .
 Morpurgo, J. E. (1979): Allen Lane: King Penguin. London: Hutchinson.
 Aynsley, J., Lloyd Jones, L. (1985), Fifty Penguin Years. .
 Cherry, B. (1983): The Buildings of England: A short History and Bibliography, Penguin Collectors Society, London.
 Edwards, R. (1997): A Penguin Collector's Companion, Penguin Collector's Society, London.
 Holland, S. (1993): Mushroom Jungle: A History of Postwar Paperback Publishing, Westbury.
 Pearson, J. (1996): Penguins March On: Books for the Forces During World War II, Penguin Collector's Society, London.
 Lane, A., Fowler, D. et al. (1960): Penguins Progress, 1935-1960, Harmondsworth.
 Ten Years of Penguins: 1935-1945, Harmondsworth.
 Williams, W. E. (1956): The Penguin Story, Harmondsworth.
 Wood, S. (1985): A Sort of Dignified Flippancy, Edinburgh University Library.

Pautan luar

Laman web rasmi
 Penguin Books USA
 Penguin Books UK

Lain-lain
Penguin Archive University of Bristol Library Special Collections
 Penguin Archive Project University of Bristol
 King Penguin Book Series King Penguin Book Series
 The Art of Penguin Science Fiction The history and cover art of science fiction published by Penguin Books from 1935 to the present day
 Penguin First Editions Guide to the early (1935-1955) first editions published by Penguin Books
 Penguin book covers
 Penguin Cerise Travel Celebrating Penguin Books' early 'Travel and Adventure' series
 Foley Collection — articles and extensive lists
 History of the Penguin Archive by Toby Clements, The Telegraph, 19 February 2009.
 Archival Material at Leeds University Library

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