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With the show's return in [[2005]], Virgin published an unofficial reference book ''[[Who's Next: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who]]''. | With the show's return in [[2005]], Virgin published an unofficial reference book ''[[Who's Next: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who]]''. | ||
In [[2007]], a decade after they stopped publishing official ''Doctor Who'' material, [[Random House]] gained majority shareholding, effectively ending Virgin's life as an independent publishing company. Like [[BBC Books]], it now exists as an imprint in the Ebury Publishing division. Due to them now sharing a publishing | In [[2007]], a decade after they stopped publishing official ''Doctor Who'' material, [[Random House]] gained majority shareholding, effectively ending Virgin's life as an independent publishing company. Like [[BBC Books]], it now exists as an imprint in the Ebury Publishing division. Due to them now sharing a publishing company, since 2013 a handful of Virgin novels have reemerged as BBC Books reprints. | ||
== Logos == | == Logos == | ||
Revision as of 15:28, 21 September 2014
Virgin Books, or Virgin Publishing, was the book publishing arm of Virgin Enterprises which published licensed Doctor Who fiction and non-fiction during the early-to-mid 1990s. Under the Doctor Who Books imprint, Virgin published the Doctor Who New Adventures and Missing Adventure novels, as well as the Virgin Decalogs anthologies and Licence Denied (a collected anthology of fan writing edited by Paul Cornell).
After the BBC withdrew Virgin's licence, they published the Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures, which also take place in the Doctor Who universe, but do not feature the Doctor.
With the show's return in 2005, Virgin published an unofficial reference book Who's Next: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who.
In 2007, a decade after they stopped publishing official Doctor Who material, Random House gained majority shareholding, effectively ending Virgin's life as an independent publishing company. Like BBC Books, it now exists as an imprint in the Ebury Publishing division. Due to them now sharing a publishing company, since 2013 a handful of Virgin novels have reemerged as BBC Books reprints.
Logos
The New Adventures and other Doctor Who tie-in books and merchandise focusing on the Seventh Doctor era generally used the Seventh Doctor's logo as seen on television. Virgin also created an exclusive version of the classic "diamond logo" for use on the Missing Adventures and other material focusing on the eras of then-past Doctors.
However, the Virgin logo itself was rarely, if ever, used on any Doctor Who output. This is most likely because the books were published under the "Doctor Who Books" imprint.
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