Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has expressed interest in buying book publisher Penguin Group, potentially undermining merger discussions between Penguin and Random House, people familiar with the situation said. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin and Random House, which are merging to form one of the world's biggest publishers, are confident of regulatory approval but will sell "bits and pieces" if necessary. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House and Penguin chiefs have moved to reassure staff, authors and agents as news of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pearson and Bertelsmann have confirmed that Penguin and Random House are to combine into a new... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pearson, the owner of Penguin, and Bertelsmann, Random House's parent company, are currently in discussions to merge the two companies. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pearson shares open higher on news that two of the world's biggest publishers, Penguin and Random House, are in talks about a possible merger. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pearson has confirmed that it is in talks with Bertelsmann regarding a potential merger between... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lena Dunham, creator of HBO’s Girls, signed a $3.7 million book deal with Random House. Rob Spillman says it is emblematic of all that is wrong with corporate publishing today. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-10-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s author Shirley Hughes has been signed up for a new series by Random House... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House has acquired world rights in the autobiography of comedy great John Cleese, star of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House has acquired the autobiography of actor Sir David Jason, star of series including... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
It’s been three years since HarperCollins became the first publisher to move to a digital catalogue. Since then Random House has gone entirely paperless, while others, like Perseus Books Group, offer both. Some provide Edelweiss printouts on request. Yet despite the push to digital, a handful of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House’s William Heinemann has acquired a non-fiction title about language... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House UK has become the latest publisher to bolster its capabilities in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House US has launched a television division, formed in partnership with fellow Bertelsmann... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House has announced plans for the creation of a digital one-stop shop to aid the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House has announced a multi-year extension of its sales and distribution partnership with Wizards of the Coast LLC, which began in 2005. Wizards of the Coast is the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons and other popular fantasy and sci-fi series. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House has reprinted its record-busting Fifty Shades trilogy a further three times... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House is printing extra stock of Fifty Shades of Grey in Germany to help keep bookshelves... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House's Square Peg is lining up two in-house projects for the second half of 2012,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]