Looking so far ahead may seem wildly optimistic, yet, I think, I have come back from England with a combination that will finally make the quarter book a permanent feature of American publishing. —letter to my teacher Louis M. Hacker, then assistant professor of economics at Columbia College, later dean of the college, dated August 5, 1939.
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The introduction of the paperback book in the United States in 1939, and the subsequent “paperbacking of America” after 1945, permanently altered the book publishing industry in this nation. What business, societal, or governmental forces influenced the censoring of paperback books in the United States? In this article, Ian Ballantine, a leader in the paperback mass market industry, provides a personal perspective on censorship; His candid observations about individuals, books, and movements shed new light on a pivotal period in the history of the book in this country.
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Ballantine, I. Censorship and massmarket paperbound publishing. Publishing Research Quarterly 11, 3–8 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02680540
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02680540