Bertelmann is to spend "in the mid-hundreds of millions" in US dollars on American e-learning provider Relias Learning, describing it as the company's "biggest purchase in the US since it took over Random House in 1998". The buy, which will have to be approved by antitrust authorities, is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the third year in a row, Random House (but not its Penguin side, because the warehouses aren't integrated yet) will provide express shipping, starting November 1. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In another step in the integration of Penguin and Random House, the company has completed the buyout process of eligible members within the PRH sales group. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
The merger of Penguin and Random House in Canada is beginning to taking shape in two new, concrete ways. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
More than 700 authors and 75 agencies have registered for Random House’s Author Portal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-09-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fourteen months after the completion of the Random House–Penguin Group merger, PRH CEO Markus Dohle has created the Penguin Publishing Group, which puts all Penguin adult imprints under Madeline McIntosh, who was named president of the new unit. The move is Dohle’s most aggressive yet in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House has pulled the best selling anti-corruption expose He Who Must Be Obeid from bookstores after instance of mistaken identity Continue reading >> [ Source: The Sydney Morning Herald | 2014-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House’s international sales director Simon Littlewood is to leave the company... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Alan Mirken, who arranged the sale of the Crown Publishing Group to Random House in 1988 when he served as president of the company, died June 12 from heart problems. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Roger Tagholm bids a poetic adieu to Random House's iconic colophon, which has been replaced by a new text-based 'global identity.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The author and activist Maya Angelou, who died at her home in North Carolina, is best known for her 1969 autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (Random House). Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House is publishing another backlist title, Trilobites & Other Stories by Breece D... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House's food blog and online cooking community, TasteBook, has added a new bookstore called The BookShop. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
A late addition to the hot books at the London Book Fair is a debut novel called "Hausfrau" that Random House's David Ebershoff preempted world rights to on Friday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Commenting on the merger of Random House and Penguin, Thomas Rabe, CEO of RH parent company Bertelsmann, wrote in the company’s annual report that the “formation of Penguin Random House is the best possible path to new growth in the book industry—and to new growth for Bertelsmann.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House is going after film buffs. The publisher's Vintage Books imprint has created Vintage Movie Classics to release backlist books that served as the basis for iconic films. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House Business Books is to publish a book by former US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House Audio has signed an agreement with BBC Worldwide to sell and distribute the company... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Concerns have been raised over the use of temporary workers at Random House's distribution... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stephen Hawking has gone to great lengths to promote science through books and videos, but he has been conspicuously absent in the software world -- until now, that is. The astrophysicist has just teamed up with Random House on Snapshots of the ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]