Transworld (publisher)

Transworld
Parent company	Penguin Random House
Founded	1950; 74 years ago
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	Ealing, London, England
Publication types	Books
Imprints	Bantam, Bantam Press, Black Swan, Corgi, Doubleday
Official website	www.penguin.co.uk/company/publishers/transworld.html

Transworld is a British publishing house in Ealing, London that is a division of Penguin Random House, one of the world's largest mass media groups. It was established in 1950 as the British division of American company Bantam Books.^[1] It publishes fiction and nonfiction titles by various best-selling authors including Val Wood under several different imprints. Hardbacks are published under the Doubleday imprint, whereas paperbacks are published under the Black Swan or Corgi imprint. The Bantam Press imprint publishes both Hardbacks and Prestige softcovers.^[2]

Terry Pratchett First Novel Award

Transworld sponsors the Terry Pratchett First Novel Award for unpublished science-fiction novels.^[3]

References

^ McDOWELL, EDWIN (17 August 1986). "BANTAM'S ECLECTIC NEW CHIEF: ALBERTO VITALE; Weighing Books on Financial Scales". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
^ "Publisher: Bantam Press". The Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
^ "The Terry Pratchett First Novel Award". terrypratchettbooks.com. 21 December 2011.

External links

Official website
Company history (as of 2012)
Corgi Books - a book series published by Transworld from the 1950s

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[1] McDOWELL, EDWIN (17 August 1986). "BANTAM'S ECLECTIC NEW CHIEF: ALBERTO VITALE; Weighing Books on Financial Scales". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 20 January 2018.

[2] "Publisher: Bantam Press". The Internet Speculative Fiction Database.

[3] "The Terry Pratchett First Novel Award". terrypratchettbooks.com. 21 December 2011.

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