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24th Feb 2016, 3:25 PM
	ppint. Member since Aug 2012 6393 Points	(not entirely part of this:) it might help to add an "imprint" field: - many publishers have published under more than one imprint: (e.g. penguin books ltd. under penguin, pelican, puffin, peacock, penguin educational, picture puffin, puffin plus (& almost certainly at least a couple of which i'm not currently mindful)); - and sometimes a once-independent publisher's become just one of another (usually larger) publisher's imprints: (e.g. the originally independent ace books, inc. publishers of romance, gothic, western, science fiction &c, became just the "ace science fiction" imprint of charter communications, inc., later part of grosset & dunlap, inc.°, before becaming just one imprint of the berkley publishing group that was later bought by penguin books ltd, becoming part of putnam-penguin, inc. - and which had been retained as an sf (& fantasy) imprint of the rechristened penguin america (, inc. iirc) before becoming part of random penguin (!!!) or whatever the most recent product of the latest rounds of extremely rich peoples'n'megacorpses' monopoly/global consolidation game's been renamed. . .) - but "ace", whilst it has remained as an imprint, hasn't actually been a publisher since 1970, when it became "ace sf/science fiction", an imprint of charter communications, inc. ° - and somehow owned by, or part of, or elsewise bound up with filmways, and orion pictures. . . - so being able to follow individual imprints, as well as publishers, might be useful. - not least, because publishers were quite capable of selling one or more of their imprints to another publisher - not always with the imprint in question's full back-list. . . (e.g. penguin books ltd. bought sphere books from thompson books ltd, then sold 'em on to some incarnation of macdonald- futura/macdonald/maxwell publishing/bpc(c)/etc. less the cream of the sphere titles, such as marion zimmer bradley's "the mists of avalon", which were moved onto the penguin imprint before the sale.) Edited by ppint. on 27th Feb 2016, 2:59 PM