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- Lane designed the mass-market paperback to be displayed in wire racks that could be conveniently placed in virtually any retail space. People who didn’t have a local bookstore, and even people who would never have ventured into a bookstore, could now browse the racks while filling a prescription or waiting for a train and buy a book on impulse.
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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. Our books are renowned for their quality and their originality of thought.
Sir Allen Lane’s first Penguin books were colour-coded: orange for fiction, blue for biography and green for crime. The first batch he published included books by Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie.
Apr 28, 2010 · Guest contributors to Publishing Perspectives have diverse backgrounds in publishing, media and technology. They live across the globe and bring unique, first-hand experience to their writing. Tags: Allen Lane, Ebooks, experience design, James Bridle, Paperback, Penguin, Penguincubator, Reading, United Kingdom.
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.
A publisher ahead of its game. From its inception, Penguin was ahead of its peers. Lane was an innovative, forward-thinking publisher, prepared to take risks. An example of this is Lane’s introduction of the Penguincubator, a vending machine for books (see left), which was very successful.
Jun 19, 2023 · The pre-war years, when Penguin was essentially a family business – Lane and his two brothers were its original owner-directors – are fascinating in their pungent, atmospheric detail of a long-vanished business world and a long-lost London.
No publisher is an island, even now; and from the 1930s on Penguin, or Allen Lane, created a web of literature such as has never been seen before or since. Allen Lane in fact began as Allen Williams, the son of a Welsh surveyor who worked in the Bristol Corporation city surveyor's office.
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