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Ballentine Book

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NOT associated with Penguin Random House. NOT associated with The New York Times. Ballentine Book / ballentinebook.com They are part of the overseas publishing crime cartel. AVOID! Committing several violations on THIS LIST . EXACT SAME PHONE NUMBER as Penguin House Random / penguinhouserandom.com, Ballentine Book / ballentinebook.com, NYT Publisher / New York Times Publisher / newyorktimespublisher.com (they stole the New York Times logo), and Prime Billing Solution / primebillingsolution.com . The first three all have the same site design. Prime Billing Solution was regi...

Set by Ruth Kelleher · 3 August 2026

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Ballentine Book / ballentinebook.com They are part of the overseas publishing crime cartel. AVOID! Committing several violations on THIS LIST . EXACT SAME PHONE NUMBER as Penguin House Random / penguinhouserandom.com, Ballentine Book / ballentinebook.com, NYT Publisher / New York Times Publisher ...
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NOT associated with Penguin Random House. NOT associated with The New York Times. Ballentine Book / ballentinebook.com They are part of the overseas publishing crime cartel. AVOID! Committing several violations on THIS LIST . EXACT SAME PHONE NUMBER as Penguin House Random / penguinhouserandom.com, Ballentine Book / ballentinebook.com, NYT Publisher / New York Times Publisher / newyorktimespublisher.com (they stole the New York Times logo), and Prime Billing Solution / primebillingsolution.com . The first three all have the same site design. Prime Billing Solution was regi...

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AVOID AT ALL COSTS! They took $8,000 for a publishing package and ghosted me completely. Phone numbers bounce and their address is a mail forwarding service. In my experience with Ballentine Book, they handled communication poorly and contract clarity was unsatisfactory.
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Layla Ross12 Jan 2026Worked with them Jun 2025 – Dec 2025Recommends: No0 found this helpful