Oscar Dystel, who as head of Bantam Books rescued his company and helped revolutionize the publishing industry by bringing paperback editions of “The Catcher in the Rye,” “Jaws” and other ...

How about a paperback book for the same price? Not a used paperback, mind you, but a shiny new one, complete and unabridged. Maybe James Hilton’s Lost Horizon or Agatha Christie’s The Murder ...

The pioneers of the American paperback were Robert De Graff, who published that first list in 1939 at Pocket Books, and Betty and Ian Ballantine, who founded Bantam in 1945.

Betty Ballantine, who with her husband helped transform reading habits in the pre-internet age by introducing inexpensive paperback books to Americans, died on Feb. 12 in Bearsville, N.Y. She was 99.

Oscar Dystel, who 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 ...

Bantam Books has paid close to $45 million for four new novels by Tim Lahaye, a Baptist pastor and co-author of a series of apocalyptic Christian novels that have sold in numbers that rival those ...

Fred Klein, who helped make Bantam Books a major force in mass market paperback publishing in the 1960s and 1970s, died on October 22. He was described by a former colleague as the greatest ...

Ballantine and Bantam editions flourished, and the era of the mass market paperback had arrived. Nearly every prominent American hardback publisher developed a line of paperback books.

Oscar Dystel — who combined sharp editorial judgments, shrewd marketing, and attention-grabbing covers to propel Bantam Books from the brink of collapse to preeminence in paperback publishing ...