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Betty Ballantine, who helped invent the modern paperback, dies at 99

Betty Ballantine, half of a groundbreaking husband-and-wife publishing team that helped invent the modern paperback and vastly expand the market for science fiction and other genres through such best-sellers as “The Hobbit” and “Fahrenheit 451,” has died. Ballantine died Tuesday at her home in...

 

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