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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 ]
Penguin Random House Limited [3] is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. [4] [5] Penguin Books was originally founded in 1935 [6] and Random House was founded in 1927. [7] It has more than 300 publishing imprints. Along with Simon & Schuster ...
Bantam Press is an imprint of Transworld Publishers which is a British publishing division of Penguin Random House. It is based on Uxbridge Road in Ealing near Ealing Broadway station, London, the same address as Transworld. It releases hardcover and prestige softcover book editions. [1] Bantam Press also publishes Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic ...
This is a list of English-language book publishers.It includes imprints of larger publishing groups, which may have resulted from business mergers. Included are academic publishers, technical manual publishers, publishers for the traditional book trade (both for adults and children), religious publishers, and small press publishers, among other types.
Penguin Books Limited is a German-owned English publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, [ 3 ] as a line of the publishers the Bodley Head , only becoming a separate company the following year. [ 4 ]
In 2019, Penguin Random House acquired British children's book publisher Little Tiger Group, including Tiger Tales Press, a U.S. subsidiary, and added it to Random House Children's Books. [30] Penguin Random House announced an agreement to purchase Boom! Studios in July 2024, where Boom! would become part of Random House Worlds. [31] [32]
DK has continued to sell Star Wars books after the takeover. [9] In 2013, Bertelsmann and Pearson completed a merger to form Penguin Random House. [10] Bertelsmann owned 53% and Pearson 47% of the company. Penguin's trade publishing activity continued to include DK under the newly formed Penguin Random House. [11]
John Wiley & Sons (UK) £26.7m (1.5%) Faber Independent Alliance £57.4m (3.3%) Faber & Faber, Atlantic Books, Canongate, Granta Books, Icon Books, Portobello Books, Profile Books (including Serpent's Tail), Short Books. A number of financially independent smaller publishers that have formed an alliance to share promotion and administration ...