Allen Lane

Leading UK retail book chain Waterstones has proudly tweeted a picture of early Penguins via its official Twitter account, declaring: “On this day, 1935. The first ever paperback books, from @PenguinUKBooks, were published.” Only, were they? As you might expect of such an obvious and sensible idea, Allen Lane’s line of Penguin Books, launched in [...]

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No, not those National Book Awards. E.L. James will square off with the likes of Bernard Cornwell, Victoria Hislop and Kate Mosse in the Popular Fiction category of the U.K.'s  National Book Awards on Dec. 4 in London.

Penguin Books India is releasing its first set of eBooks. This will be the first extensive list of Indian ebooks to be published internationally by an Indian publisher and will be available from all the major international ebook retailers – Amazon, Apple, Kobo and Google, Gardners, Sony, OLF, Apabi, Go Spoken/Mobcast, OverDrive, Txtr, Ebooks.com, IGroup and Baker & Taylor. The first list of over 240 titles consists of all of their new books published in 2012 and select best sellers from the backlist. Over the course of the following months they will continue to publish the remaining backlist while