Media & Publicity
Recent press releases and announcements about Random House, Inc.'s corporate and organizational activities.
October 19, 2011
POLITICO and Random House, Inc. launch ‘POLITICO Bookshelf,’ a curated online bookstore
POLITICO, the nation’s leading source for political news, and Random House, Inc., the largest English-language trade book publisher, announced today the creation of ‘POLITICO Bookshelf,’ an online bookstore designed specifically for POLITICO’s audience of Washington’s most influential leaders and the millions of people consuming political news around the country on a daily basis.
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October 7, 2011
Crown Publishers and RealClearPolitics announce publishing partnership to cover 2012 Presidential campaign as it unfolds
RealClearPolitics (www.realclearpolitics.com), a leading website for political news and commentary, has joined forces with Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group at Random House, Inc., to publish a series of news-breaking accounts about the 2012 presidential campaign. The series will consist of three short-form e-book originals that will be released at different stages of the campaign and one full-length book that will include all three e-books as well as new material. The full-length book will be published in both physical and digital formats following the 2012 election.
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June 27, 2011
Random House and Politico announce partnership for instant digital book series on Election 2012
The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., the largest English-language trade book publisher, announced today a new joint venture with POLITICO, the leading source for political news, to publish a series of four instant digital books on the 2012 Presidential Election.
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June 22, 2011
Random House brings back iconic romance line Loveswept as transatlantic digital-exclusive imprint and a new romance site RomanceAtRandom.com
The Random House Publishing Group, part of Random House, Inc., announced today that it is reviving its former Bantam Books-originated Loveswept imprint, a groundbreaking romance publishing line of the eighties and nineties, which helped launch the careers of such bestselling authors as Sandra Brown, Suzanne Brockmann, Janet Evanovich, Tami Hoag, Iris Johansen, and Kay Hooper. The 2011 Loveswept publishing program will be a digital-exclusive imprint, comprised of original, newly written e-books, as well as beloved Ballantine Bantam Dell romances and classic Loveswept titles.
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May 24, 2011
Phyllis Grann, one of our industry’s most celebrated figures, has decided to retire
Download a personal letter from Knopf-Doubleday Group Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Sonny Mehta, regarding the retirement of distinguished editor Phyllis Grann.
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April 26, 2011
Spiritual authority and bestselling author Deepak Chopra joins forces with Crown Publishing Group to launch new imprint, Deepak Chopra Books
Deepak Chopra, bestselling author of over 60 books and a leader in the fields of emerging spirituality, mind-body healing, and holistic living, will lead a new imprint named Deepak Chopra Books for Random House, Inc.’s Crown Publishing Group. The inaugural Deepak Chopra Books list will debut in 2012.
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April 18, 2011
Random House, Inc. is thrilled to announce A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD by Jennifer Egan has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
We are delighted for our Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group colleagues—especially our author’s editor Jordan Pavlin. A Visit from the Goon Squad is now a piece of Pulitzer Prize history and achievement unrivalled in book publishing: since 1919, books published by imprints now part of Random House have been honored in the five literary Pulitzer categories 103 times.
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April 11, 2011
Crown Publishing Group (U.S.) and Chatto & Windus (U.K.) to launch new transatlantic fiction imprint, Hogarth, in Summer 2012.
The Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. in the U.S. and Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage Publishing, a division of The Random House Group in the U.K., jointly announce today the launch of a new imprint, Hogarth, dedicated exclusively to publishing fiction. Its mission will be to publish contemporary, voice-driven, character-rich stories that entertain, inform, and move readers. All Hogarth titles will be published in print and digital editions.
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April 8, 2011
The New Yorker profile subjects to author THE TOOLS for Random House English, German, and Spanish publication.
The Random House Publishing Group has acquired English- German- and Spanish-language publilcation rights for its international sister Random House territorial divisions to The Tools, whose authors, Barry Michels and Dr. Phil Stutz, were profiled in a galvanizing, widely-discussed article in the March 21 issue of The New Yorker. The piece described the revolutionary method for helping their patients—many of them highly creative—regularly defeat such personal success-limiting forces as anger, insecurity, and anxiety.
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March 23, 2011
Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers reveals title and cover for final book in Christopher Paolini’s #1 bestselling Inheritance Cycle.
Eagerly awaited by millions around the world, the triumphant conclusion to Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle will arrive this fall, it was announced today by Nancy Hinkel, Vice President, Publishing Director of Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books. Following the #1 bestselling novels Eragon, Eldest, and Brisingr, the fourth and final book in the series will be titled Inheritance, a fitting designation for the concluding novel in Paolini’s epic fantasy.
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