Ballantine Books

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Ballantine Books is a major American book publisher, best known as a long-standing imprint of Random House that has released a wide range of popular fiction and nonfiction titles.

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Label Occurrences
Ballantine Books canonical 30
Ian Ballantine 1

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf book publisher
publishing imprint
acquiredBy Random House
areaServed worldwide
country United States of America
surface form: United States
distributionFormat e-books
hardcover books
paperback books
focusesOn genre fiction
mass-market paperbacks
trade paperbacks
foundedAs independent paperback publisher
foundedBy Betty Ballantine
Ian Ballantine
genre fantasy
horror
mystery fiction
nonfiction
popular fiction
romance fiction
science fiction
hasImprint Del Rey Books
hasPublicationType nonfiction trade titles
original fiction
tie-in novels
hasSubjectArea biography
history
popular culture
self-help
headquartersLocation New York City
imprintOf Penguin Random House
Random House
inception 1952
industry publishing
languageOfWorkOrName English
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity New York
notableFor publishing early mass-market paperbacks in the United States
notableSeries Ballantine Adult Fantasy series
Star Wars novels
parentCompany Penguin Random House
Random House
partOf Random House
surface form: Random House Publishing Group
publishedAuthor Anne McCaffrey
Arthur C. Clarke
Isaac Asimov
J. R. R. Tolkien
Ray Bradbury
Stephen King

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- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Ballantine Books
Description of subject: Ballantine Books is a major American book publisher, best known as a long-standing imprint of Random House that has released a wide range of popular fiction and nonfiction titles.

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