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''''Penguin Books'''' is a [[publisher]] based in the [[United Kingdom]] and founded in 1935. Penguin innovated within the traditional publishing industry in the 1930s by being the first company to produce inexpensive yet high quality, [[paperback]]s sold through [[Woolworths]] and other dime stores.
''''Penguin Books'''' is a [[publisher]] based in the [[United Kingdom]] and founded in 1935. Penguin innovated within the traditional publishing industry in the 1930s by being the first company to produce inexpensive yet high quality, [[paperback]]s sold through [[Woolworths]] and other dime stores.<ref>[http://tcbh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/4/1/25 Joicey, Nicholas (1993), "A Paperback Guide to Progress: Penguin Books 1935-c.1951", ''Twentieth Century British History'', Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 25-56]; and Ross McKibbin ''Classes and Cultures: England 1918-1951'', Oxford, 1998, ISBN 0-19-820672-0.</ref>
==See Also==
Since 2013, Penguin Books is now part of the worldwide [[Penguin Random House]], a massive [[conglomerate]] which was created in 2013 through the merger of the two publishers.<ref>Mark Sweney [http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/29/penguin-random-house-book-publisher "Penguin and Random House merger to create biggest book publisher ever seen"], ''The Guardian'', 29 October 2012</ref> It was formerly called Penguin Group.
[[Plume]] Publishing is part of Penguin.
==See also==
* [[Publishing]]
* [[Publishing]]
==External Sites==
==References==
* http://www.Penguin.com
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==External links==
* [http://www.Penguin.com Penguin Books]