Mills and Boon

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Mills & Boon Limited was founded in 1908 by Gerald Mills and Charles Boon, and soon romance fiction became the publisher's primary business. As the company grew, its books became known as "the books in brown" (see: Mills & Boon history).

By building a strong relationship with libraries and making their product available through newsagents, Mills & Boon's reasonably priced product was easy-to-purchase, leading to increased sales. In 1957, Harlequin Enterprises Limited, then a smaller publisher, acquired rights to Mills & Boon's Doctor Nurse Romances, and eventually romance fiction comprised Harlequin's entire list. Harlequin Enterprises Limited purchased Mills & Boon in 1971 and Harlequin Mills & Boon publishes Mills & Boon books under that name.

In 1992 Mills & Boon claimed to be the world's largest publisher of romantic fiction.

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Imprints

Every Mills & Boon and Silhouette imprint usually had its characteristic cover and often kept it for a long time. This changed in July 2000 when the Mills & Boon titles got an uniform cover and only the different colouring marked the imprint (new covers in July 2004). When the former Silhouette imprints were renamed to Mills & Boon imprints in 2007 the titles also got the new line of covers introduced in July 2007.

Most titles of the genuine Mills & Boon imprints (the two Romance lines and the medical and historical romances) are released 2 month prior to the paperback edition as hardcovers and months later as large prints. Thus the series titles of January and February have a release date of one year earlier.

Current Imprints

Defunct Imprints

Reissue Series/Collections

Articles/Press

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