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Pan Books is an imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 which first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a Private company international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group....
 owned by German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 publishers, Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide. Holtzbrinck has published everything from Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses to classics by Agatha Christie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and John Updike....
.

The company was originally an independent United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
-based publisher that was established in 1944 by Alan Bott .






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Pan Books is an imprint
Imprint

In the publishing industry, an imprint can refer to two different things:* It can mean a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to marketing the work to different demographic consumer market segment....
 which first became active in the 1940s and is now part of the British-based
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 Macmillan Publishers
Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a Private company international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group....
 owned by German
Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
 publishers, Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck is a Stuttgart-based publishing holding company which owns publishing companies worldwide. Holtzbrinck has published everything from Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses to classics by Agatha Christie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway and John Updike....
.

The company was originally an independent United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
-based publisher that was established in 1944 by Alan Bott . A few years later, it was bought out by a consortium of several different publishing houses, including Macmillan and Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hodder Headline.The firm has its origins in the 1840s, with Matthew Hodder's employment, aged fourteen, with Messrs Jackson and Walford, the official publisher for the Congregational church....
, among others. It became wholly owned by Macmillan in 1987.

Pan specialized in publishing paperback fiction and, along with Penguin Books
Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a United Kingdom publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a pack of cigarettes....
, 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
Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming was an English literature author and journalist. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond and chronicling his adventures in twelve novels and nine short stories....
's James Bond
James Bond

James Bond 007 is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections....
 series (Pan was the first UK publisher to issue paperback editions of these books), Leslie Charteris
Leslie Charteris

Leslie Charteris , born Leslie Charles Bowyer-Yin, was a half-Han Chinese, half English people author of primarily mystery fiction, as well as a screenwriter....
' The Saint
Simon Templar

Simon Templar is a British fictional character known as The Saint, featured in a long-running series of books by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963....
, and Peter O'Donnell
Peter O'Donnell

Peter O'Donnell , is a United Kingdom author of mysteries and of comic strips, best known as the creator of Modesty Blaise, a female action hero / undercover trouble-shooter / enforcer....
's Modesty Blaise
Modesty Blaise

Modesty Blaise is a comic strip featuring a fictional character of the same name, created by Peter O'Donnell and Jim Holdaway in 1963. The strip follows the adventures of Modesty Blaise, an exceptional young woman with many talents and a criminal past, and her trusty sidekick Willie Garvin....
, as well as other authors such as Nigel Tranter
Nigel Tranter

Nigel Tranter OBE was a Scotland historian and author....
, Jackie Collins
Jackie Collins

Jacqueline Jill "Jackie" Collins is an United Kingdom novelist and former actress. She is the younger sister of actress Joan Collins. Each of Collins' twenty-six novels have been on the New York Times bestsellers list....
, Dick Francis
Dick Francis

Dick Francis CBE is a United Kingdom horse racing crime writer and retired jockey....
, and Scott Turow
Scott Turow

Scott Turow is an American author as well as a practicing lawyer. Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies....
, to name a few. Pan also released paperback editions of works by classic authors such as Jane Austen
Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose Literary realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, Burlesque , and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature....
.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Pan Books editions were noted for their colorful covers which have made many of them collectables (particularly the Fleming and Charteris novels).

Although some sources indicate that Pan stopped publishing works in the late 1980s , the official Pan Macmillan website indicates that Pan Books is still operational, publishing award-winning titles as recently as 2007.

External links

  • at panmacmillan.com
  • from PAN Books 1945 to 1970
  • of the founder of Pan Books, Alan Bott.