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| - Der Münchner Taschenbuch-Verlag Heyne (seit 2003 ein Unternehmen der Verlagsgruppe Randomhouse und somit Teil des Medienkonzern Bertelsmann) beginnt Juni 2005 mit der Herausgabe von Manga. Heyne arbeitet mit dem japanischen Verlag Kodansha (Joint Venture mit Randomhouse) zusammen.
- The company was originally founded on 15 February 1934 as Wilhelm Heyne Verlag by its namesake in the city of Dresden, the "Wilhelm" part of the name thereafter dropped. The publisher specialized in releasing books in the fiction genre, but the publishing house was destroyed in the bombing of the city by allied bombers in World War II in February of 1945. After the war, in 1948, founder Heyne decided to relaunch his company in Munich, then located in the by the Western allies occupied part of Germany, in an effort to avoid being caught in the then-communist part of Germany, which was later formalized by Germany becoming two separate nations.
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| - The company was originally founded on 15 February 1934 as Wilhelm Heyne Verlag by its namesake in the city of Dresden, the "Wilhelm" part of the name thereafter dropped. The publisher specialized in releasing books in the fiction genre, but the publishing house was destroyed in the bombing of the city by allied bombers in World War II in February of 1945. After the war, in 1948, founder Heyne decided to relaunch his company in Munich, then located in the by the Western allies occupied part of Germany, in an effort to avoid being caught in the then-communist part of Germany, which was later formalized by Germany becoming two separate nations. In the early 1960s and under auspices of son Rolf Heyne, the publisher introduced the mass market paperback format for which it became renowned, in the process becoming Germany's second largest publisher of paperbacks, even though the hardcover format was never abandoned. In this, Heyne took its cue from the release strategy of its American counterpart, Ballantine Books – incidentally the publisher of the very first Star Trek (paperback) reference book – who had already done so in 1952. Heyne remained a prolific publisher until 2004, when the company was sold to, and merged as an imprint of, the publishing conglomerate Random House, thereby becoming a sister company of its paragon Ballantine Books in passing. Ironically, Heyne had already been a sister company of Ballantine Books in the period 1998-2000, as it was from 1974 until December 2000 a part of the German Bertelsmann media conglomerate, the current owner of Random House – which itself had already purchased Ballantine Books in 1975 – acquired by Bertelsmann in 1998.
- Der Münchner Taschenbuch-Verlag Heyne (seit 2003 ein Unternehmen der Verlagsgruppe Randomhouse und somit Teil des Medienkonzern Bertelsmann) beginnt Juni 2005 mit der Herausgabe von Manga. Heyne arbeitet mit dem japanischen Verlag Kodansha (Joint Venture mit Randomhouse) zusammen.
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