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Bantam Books is an American
Bantam 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.
History
The company was failing when
The company was involved in an important Supreme Court case, Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan in 1963. Bantam Books was prevented from distributing some of its publications in Rhode Island by a state commission called the Rhode Island Commission to Encourage Morality in Youth. The commission, headed by the Rhode Island Attorney General, would essentially blacklist books and magazines it deemed "objectionable" for sale, threatening distributors with publicity and reputational harm. Bantam Books sued, arguing this commission violated freedom of press protections and amounted to illegal censorship without due process. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Bantam Books, deciding that the commission's blacklisting practice constituted an unlawful prior restraint on free expression in violation of the First Amendment. The Court held that any system of prior censorship on publications "strikes at the very foundation of freedom of expression" and cannot be enforced unless regulated by precise rules with procedural safeguards. This was an influential decision reinforcing First Amendment protections against government censorship of published materials.
In 1964, Grosset & Dunlap acquired full ownership of Bantam from Curtis.
Books published
Bantam has published the entire original run of the "
Other series include Bantam Classics, the
Bantam Classics
The series was started in 1958. It reprints mostly public domain, unabridged
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.[21]
Authors
Authors originally published exclusively or significantly by Bantam include:
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Books originally published by Bantam
- Occult America, Mitch Horowitz
- The Female Man, Joanna Russ
- Spock Must Die!, James Blish
- Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
- The Gap Cycle, Stephen R. Donaldson
- The Saddle Club series
- Time Machine series
- Out on a Limb, Shirley MacLaine
- 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
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consolidating the Ballantine and Bantam Dell lines into a new Ballantine Bantam Dell group. Libby McGuire will run the merged division as svp, publisher, and Bantam Dell evp
- ^ "Our Imprints". randomhousebooks.com. 2015-02-28. Archived from the original on 2015-02-28. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
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... 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 ...
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Bertelsmann… [B]efore acquiring Random House… in 1986 bought Bantam Doubleday Dell, the country's fifth-largest commercial book publisher
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to merge eight of its publishing units into four groups or divisions, including a combination of Bantam Books… and Dell Publishing
- ^ "Massive Reorganization at Random House: Steve Rubin, Irwyn Applebaum Step Down; Doubleday and Bantam Divisions Dismantled". Observer. 2008-12-03. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
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