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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.
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.
Century Hutchinson was folded into the British Random House Group in 1989, [5] briefly known as Random Century (1990 - 92), [6] Century became an imprint of Cornerstone Publishing, [7] a publishing house of Penguin Random House UK, [8] which is in turn a division of Penguin Random House, which itself, since 2013, was owned jointly by ...
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.
Maureen and Tony Wheeler, founders of Lonely Planet, bought Canongate's share in Text in 2011, [7] making it a wholly Australian-owned company. [3] In 2012, Text launched a series of Australian classics, [8] republishing out-of-print works. [9] In January 2025, Text announced that it had been acquired by Penguin Random House. [10]
Roc Books is a fantasy imprint of Penguin Group, as part of its New American Library.It was launched in April 1990 after Penguin Chairman Peter Mayer asked John Silbersack, the editor in chief of New American Library's science fiction (SF) program, to launch a new imprint that would draw more attention to Penguin's SF presence.
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.