Goldmann

Goldmann (formerly Wilhelm Goldmann Publishing) is a publishing house in Munich and part of the Random House Publishing Group, in turn belonging to the Bertelsmann group. They are the best-selling commercial publishers in Germany, especially in paperbacks. Today the publishing house is an imprint of Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of Bertelsmann.

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