Pan Books is an imprint which first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers owned by German publishers, Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. In the Publishing Industry, an imprint can refer to two different things It can mean a Brand name under which a work is published The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately-held International Publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart -based Publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide
The company was originally an independent United Kingdom-based publisher that was established in 1944 by Alan Bott [1]. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Pan Books is an Imprint which first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based Macmillan Publishers owned by German publishers A few years later, it was bought out by a consortium of several different publishing houses, including Macmillan and Hodder & Stoughton, among others. Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house now an Imprint of Hodder Headline. It became wholly owned by Macmillan in 1987.
Pan specialized in publishing paperback fiction and, along with Penguin Books, was one of the first popular publishers of this format in the UK. Penguin Books is a British Publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. A large number of popular authors saw their works given paperback release through Pan, such as Ian Fleming's James Bond series (Pan was the first UK publisher to issue paperback editions of these books), Leslie Charteris' The Saint, and Peter O'Donnell's Modesty Blaise, as well as other authors such as Nigel Tranter, Jackie Collins, Dick Francis, and Scott Turow, to name a few. Ian Lancaster Fleming ( May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, Journalist and Second World War James Bond 007 is a Fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve Novels and two Short story Leslie Charteris ( May 12, 1907, Singapore &ndash April 15, 1993) born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, was a half- Chinese Overview Simon Templar is known as the Saint because of his initials (ST and also because of his heroic exploits that fly in the face of an otherwise nefarious reputation Peter O'Donnell (born April 11, 1920 in Lewisham, London) is a British writer of mysteries and of Comic strips Modesty Blaise is a Comic strip featuring a Fictional character of the same name created by Peter O'Donnell (writer and Jim Holdaway Nigel Tranter OBE ( November 23, 1909 – January 9, 2000) was a Scottish Historian and Author. Jacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins (born 4 October, 1937) is a British -born Novelist and former Actress. Dick Francis CBE (born Richard Stanley Francis on October 31, 1920) is a British Author and retired Jockey. For Polish place names see Turów. Scott Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American Author as well as a practicing Pan also released paperback editions of works by classic authors such as Jane Austen. Jane Austen (16
During the 1950s and 1960s, Pan Books editions were noted for their colorful covers which have made many of them collectables (particularly the Fleming and Charteris novels).
Although some sources indicate that Pan stopped publishing works in the late 1980s, the official Pan Macmillan website indicates that Pan Books is still operational, publishing award-winning titles as recently as 2007.
External links
- Imprint history at panmacmillan. com
- Cover Artwork from PAN Books 1945 to 1969
- Brief history of the founder of Pan Books, Alan Bott.
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