Ballantine Books, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine, is a major book publisher and is currently owned by Random House. With a 3000-title backlist, Ballantine Books has several imprints of its own, including DelRey and Fawcett. During the early 1950s, Ballantine attracted attention as one of the leading publishers of paperbackscience fiction and fantasy. 1. ... Random House is a publishing division of Bertelsmann AG. It was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two years after they had acquired the Modern Library imprint. ... In the publishing business, an imprint is a brand name under which a work is published. ... Fawcett Publications was launched in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford H. Captain Billy Fawcett (1883-1940) with his bawdy cartoon and joke magazine, It began October, 1919, as a mimeographed pamphlet, and the early mimeographed issues were peddled around Minneapolis by Captain Billy and Claire Fawcetts four sons... Paperback may refer to a kind of book binding by which papers are simply folded without cloth or leather and bound - usually with glue rather than stitches or staples - into a thick paper cover; or to a book with this type of binding. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... For other definitions of fantasy see fantasy (psychology). ...
Ballantine's logo is a "B" back to back with a backwards "B."
Ballantine was an American brewery, founded by Peter Ballantine who was born in Scotland in 1781.
It is best known for Ballantine Ale, a pale ale that is one of the oldest brands of beer in the United States.
As of 2005, the Ballantine Ale brand name is owned and marketed by the Pabst Brewing Company, which in turn outsources the brewing to the Miller Brewing Company.