About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: RTL Group, Random House, Western Publishing, Radio Hamburg, Fodor's, Pantheon Books, RTL Klub, Beginner Books, Sony BMG, REN TV, FremantleMedia, M6, Ballantine Books, RTL Television, RTL II, Bennett Cerf, Alpha TV, RTL Televizija, Doubleday, Modern Library, VOX, Super RTL, Crown Publishing Group, Talkback Thames, The Bodley Head, CineGroupe, Villard, Bantam Books, Bantam Classic Book Series, Harvill Secker, W9, Del Rey Books, N-tv, RTL Tele Letzebuerg, Shambhala Publications, Dial Press, Chatto & Windus, Jonathan Cape, Tanoshimi, TF6, Vintage Books, Original Productions, Bantam Spectra, Crackerjack Productions, RTL Radio, Rider, Paris Premiere, Ebury Publishing, Skylark. Excerpt: Pantheon Books is an American imprint with editorial independence that is part of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The current editor-in-chief at Pantheon Books is Dan Frank. Bertelsmann AG, the German company that also owns Bantam Books, Doubleday Publishing, Dell Publishing, Times Books, the Modern Library, Everyman's Library, Vintage Books, Crown Publishing Group, Schocken Books, Ballantine Books, Del Rey Books, Fawcett Publications also acquired Random House in 1998, making Bertelsmann the largest publisher of American books. In addition to classics, international fiction, and trade paperbacks, recently Pantheon has moved aggressively into the comics market. It has published many critically acclaimed graphic novels and comics collections, including Ice Haven, La Perdida, Read Yourself RAW, Maus, In the Shadow of No Towers, and Black Hole. Many of its comics publications are high-quality collected editions of works originally serialized by other publishers such as Fantagraphics Books. Pantheon Books was founded in 1942 in New York City by European intellectuals who had come to the United States to escape fascism and the Holocaust. I...
