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Jan 2024
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Hatching Penguin | Paperback Pioneer | 1

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To save the publishing company he inherited from his uncle, British publisher Allen Lane launches a radical new line of paperback books – but finds it’s a tall order to get a resistant industry to embrace the new business.

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