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Allen Lane is now the leading publisher in the UK of bestselling serious non-fiction, setting the agenda in subjects including history, science, politics, economics, philosophy, psychology, language and current affairs.
Penguin Press comprises the flagship non-fiction imprint Allen Lane, the innovative Particular Books, the newly revitalised Pelican imprint and the world of Penguin Classics.
Sir Allen Lane CH (born Allen Lane Williams; 21 September 1902 – 7 July 1970) was a British publisher who together with his brothers Richard and John Lane founded Penguin Books in 1935, bringing high-quality paperback fiction and non-fiction to the mass market.
Within 10 months of launching Penguin Books in 1935, 1 million books were published. To complement the inclusive pricing of his Penguin books, Sir Allen Lane dreamt up the Penguincubator in 1937, a vending machine that offered a selection of Penguin books on Charing Cross Road, London.
Sir Allen Lane was a 20th-century pioneer of paperback publishing in England. His belief in a market for high-quality books at low prices helped to create a new reading public and also led to improved printing and binding techniques.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Launched on 30 July 1935, as a subsidiary of The Bodley Head, Penguin’s aim was simple: to publish good-looking, inexpensive quality paperback titles for a mass-market audience.
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Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year.
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