Thursday, July 29, 2010

Paperback Birthday Update

Richard Heft's comment on a post below moved me to post this in the interests of fairness.

Albatross Books - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Albatross Books was a German publishing house based in Hamburg that produced the first modern mass market paperback books.

Albatross was founded in 1932 by John Holroyd-Reece, Max Wegner and Kurt Enoch. The name was chosen because 'Albatross' is the same word in many European languages. Based on the example of Tauchnitz, a Leipzig publishing firm that had been producing inexpensive and paperbound English-language reprints for a continental market, Albatross set about to streamline and modernize the paperback format."

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