Universal-Tandem Publishing

Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd was a United Kingdom paperback publishing company established in the early 1960s as Tandem Books. Its principal imprint was Tandem. The hyphenated name Universal-Tandem was adopted as a corporate identity in 1968 after Tandem Books was bought by the American group Universal Publishing and Distribution Corporation Inc. [UPD], allowing Universal-Tandem to distribute some titles published by UPD in the United States in the United Kingdom. In 1973 Tandem established Target Books as a children's imprint. Target became well known for its highly successful range of novelisations and other assorted books based on the popular science-fiction television series Doctor Who. In 1975 Universal-Tandem was sold by UPD to the British conglomerate Howard and Wyndham; the company was renamed Tandem Publishing Ltd before being merged with the paperback imprints of Howard and Wyndham's general publishing house W H Allen to become Wyndham Publications Ltd in 1976; however, during 1977 and 1978 the Wyndham identity was phased out. The Tandem imprint was phased out during 1980, surviving titles from the backlist subsequently being reprinted under W H Allen's principal paperback imprint Star. The Target imprint survived until 1993, though in its latter years it was only used for Doctor Who novelisations.

References

Howe, David (2007). The Target book. Tolworth: Telos. ISBN 978-1-84583-021-2.