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Penguin Random House. Penguin Random House LLC is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. [ 2][ 3] Penguin Books was originally founded in 1935 [ 4] and Random House was founded in 1927. [ 5] It has more than 300 publishing imprints.
Random House. Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Founded in 1927 by businessmen Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer as an imprint of Modern Library, it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the following decades, a series of acquisitions made it into one of the largest ...
Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. The new company was created by a merger that was finalised on 1 July 2013, with Bertelsmann initially owning 53% of the joint venture, and Pearson PLC initially owning the remaining 47%. [ 2 ]
Hachette Livre is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Group. HBG was formed when Hachette Livre purchased the Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner on March 31, 2006. [ 1] Its headquarters are located at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. [ 2] Hachette is considered one of the "big five" publishing companies ...
Viking Press (formally Viking Penguin, also listed as Viking Books) is an American publishing company owned by Penguin Random House. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925, by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheimer [ 1 ] and then acquired by the Penguin Group in 1975.
Vintage Books is a trade paperback publishing imprint of Penguin Random House originally established by Alfred A. Knopf in 1954. The company was acquired by Random House in April 1960, and a British division was set up in 1990. After Random House merged with Bantam Doubleday Dell, Doubleday's Anchor Books trade paperback line was added to the ...
Penguin Random House logo. Penguin Random House is the world's largest book publishing company. [203] The company was created in 2013 through the merger of the publishing businesses of Bertelsmann and Pearson. [204] With the acquisition of Random House in 1998, Bertelsmann already became the largest book publisher in the English-speaking world.
The Penguin Group purchased Putnam in 1996. When Penguin merged with Random House in 2013 to form Penguin Random House , Berkley was integrated with the larger paperback line New American Library ; the Berkley name was retained for that whole program, which is part of PRH's Penguin Adult group, and publishes in mass-market paperback, trade ...