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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 ...
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 ]
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]
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.
Penguin Books is now an imprint of the worldwide Penguin Random House, a conglomerate formed in 2013 by its merger with American publisher Random House, a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. [8] Formerly, Penguin Group was wholly owned by British Pearson plc, the global media company which also owned the Financial Times. [9]
According to Nielsen BookScan as of 2010 the largest book publishers of the United Kingdom were: [1]. Penguin Random House £409.9m (23.4%). Penguin: Penguin, Hamish Hamilton, Allen Lane, Michael Joseph, Viking, Rough Guides, Dorling Kindersley, Puffin, Ladybird, Warne
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 same division as Vintage. [1] Following Random House's merger with Penguin, Vintage UK was transferred to Penguin UK.
Chatto & Windus is an imprint of Penguin Random House that was formerly an independent book publishing company founded in London in 1855 by John Camden Hotten.Following Hotten's death, the firm would reorganize under the names of his business partner Andrew Chatto and poet William Edward Windus.