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.
The company was originally an independent United Kingdom-based publisher that was established in 1944 by Alan Bott. Bott had written memoirs of his war experiences while a flying ace in World War I. .
A few years later, it was bought out by a consortium of seve...
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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.
The company was originally an independent United Kingdom-based publisher that was established in 1944 by Alan Bott. Bott had written memoirs of his war experiences while a flying ace in World War I. .
A few years later, it was bought out by a consortium of several different publishing houses, including Macmillan and Hodder & Stoughton, among others. 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. 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...
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