Editing BBC Books (section)

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'''BBC Books''' (also formerly known as '''BBC Consumer Publishing''' and '''BBC Publishing''') is an imprint majority-owned and managed by [[Penguin Random House]] through its [[Ebury Publishing]] division. The minority shareholder is [[BBC Studios]], the commercial subsidiary of the [[BBC|British Broadcasting Corporation]]. The imprint has been active since the 1980s.

BBC Books publishes a range of books connected to BBC [[radio]] and [[television]] programming, including cookery, natural history, lifestyle, and behind the scenes "making-of" books. There are also some non-programme related biographies and autobiographies of various well-known personalities in its list.

Amongst BBC Books' best known titles are cookery books by former TV cook [[Delia Smith]], [[wildlife]] titles by Sir [[David Attenborough]] and gardening titles by [[Alan Titchmarsh]]. In the BBC Publishing days, it turned down ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Simpson|first=M. J.|title=Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams|edition=First US|publisher=Justin Charles & Co.|year=2003|page=131|isbn=978-1-932112-17-7}}</ref> a book which has now sold over 14,000,000 copies worldwide.