Talk:Ballantine Books

Some notes

 * -Started by Ian Ballantine after being fired by Bantam in 1952 over a author royalty dispute (note not an actual inception date)
 * Mr. Ballantine argued for higher royalties to attract better talent. Started Ballantine by paying 8% to authors on harcovers.
 * -Large science fiction and Western producer through late 50's and 60's including titles such as Farhenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
 * -Published Mad for some time before Mad moved to Bantam.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.114.132.151 (talk • contribs) 00:22, 11 August 2006‎ (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 04:27, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

World News Corporation
In my copy of "Elvis: What Happened?" from 1977, which is published by Ballantine Books in New York (no other offices it seems to have in those days, according to the info in the book), but the copyright belongs to "World News Corporation"! Never ever heard of that corporation and it's worthy for someone with the time and interest to add to the details here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.208.183.44 (talk) 00:24, 31 May 2010 (UTC)