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Grosset & Dunlap is a New York City-based publishing house founded in 1898.. The company was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1982 [1] and today is part of Penguin Random House through its subsidiary Penguin Group.
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.
The Crown Publishing Group is a subsidiary of Penguin Random House that publishes across several fiction and non-fiction categories. Originally founded in 1933 as a remaindered books wholesaler called Outlet Book Company , the firm expanded into publishing original content in 1936 under the Crown name, and was acquired by Random House in 1988.
New American Library (NAL) began life as Penguin U.S.A. and as part of Penguin Books of England. Because of complexities of exchange control and import and export regulations—Penguin made the decision to terminate the association, and the company was renamed the New American Library of World Literature in 1948 [1] when Penguin Books' assets (excluding the Penguin and Pelican trademarks) were ...
Putnam and the Penguin Group formed Penguin Putnam Inc. Grann abruptly left the company in 2001, after speculation over tensions with Pearson's CEO Marjorie Scardino. [ 8 ] In 2013, Penguin merged with Bertelsmann 's Random House , forming Penguin Random House .
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 ...
Dutton is now a boutique imprint within Penguin Group, publishing approximately 40 books for adults per year, half of them fiction and half non-fiction. After the acquisition by Penguin, books to which Penguin acquired the rights as part of the acquisition of Dutton were published in paperback under the imprint Puffin Unicorn (because Puffin ...