Penguin Random House

Penguin Random House LLC is a British-American multinational publishing conglomerate, created on July 1, 2013, through the merger of Penguin Books and Random House. Along with Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins and Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House is considered one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers. In 2020, Bertelsmann became the sole owner of Penguin Random House after a 2019 purchase. The integration of its own German-language publishing group, Verlagsgruppe Random House, added 45 imprints to the company, for a total of 365 imprints. As of 2021, Penguin Random House employed about 10,000 people globally and published 15,000 titles annually in all genres and formats.

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Tundra Books, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Penguin Random House India, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Random House of Canada, Arrow Books, Vintage Books, Sudamericana, Blue Rider Press, Dutton, House of Collectibles, Alfred A. Knopf Canada, Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe, Razorbill, Preface Publishing, Penguin Books New Zealand, Penguin Random House Audio, Inklore, Random House Large Print.

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