Media & Publicity
Recent press releases and announcements about Random House, Inc.'s corporate and organizational activities.
April 24, 2012
Dr. Seuss Enterprises, Random House Children’s Books, and Chase Art Companies Announce the Winner of the Third Annual Oh, The Places You’ll Go! College Scholarship
Dr. Seuss Enterprises, Random House Children’s Books, and Chase Art Companies Announce the Winner of the Third Annual Oh, The Places You’ll Go! College Scholarship.
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March 19, 2012
Random House Children’s Books announces new publishing partnership with Nickelodeon
Random House Children’s Books will now be the primary book publisher of Nickelodeon properties, it was announced jointly today by Chip Gibson, President and Publisher of Random House Children’s Books, and Paula K. Allen, Senior Vice President, Nickelodeon Global Publishing. Beginning spring 2013, the publishing program with Nickelodeon will expand to include a variety of new formats, including hardcover and paperback picture books, storybooks, leveled readers, chapter books, Junior Novels, and board books. Random House will continue publishing the coloring and activity books and Little Golden Book titles published since 2000 and 2009, respectively. These books are based on Nickelodeon properties, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, Team Umizoomi, and Bubble Guppies.
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March 12, 2012
Random House U.S. Author Portal online resource goes live March 12
Random House, Inc., today announced the launch of the Random House Author Portal, a secure, one-stop online resource that provides thousands of Random House U.S. authors and illustrators with access to comprehensive up-to-date information about their sales, royalties and subsidiary rights deals for their newly published and backlist books.
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March 2, 2012
Fodor’s Reveals the 2012 Go List – 21 Places to Visit This Year
Fodor’s, the leading name in travel guides, announced today its selection of the top twenty-one places to go in 2012 as determined by Fodor’s editors and travel experts. This second annual list covers everything from emerging destinations and hot cities to noteworthy events and great values around the world. Visit Fodor’s for the full list.
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Experience Rudyard Kipling’s Classic in a Whole New Way with ‘The Jungle Book, Adapted for the Ipad,’ Available Now in the App Store
Rudyard Kipling’s classic The Jungle Book is brought to vivid life on the iPad® with The Jungle Book Adapted for the iPad, the latest book app from Smashing Ideas and Random House Digital, available now in the iTunes® App Store™ for $3.99. Follow along on Mowgli’s journey as he is raised by wolves in the Indian Jungle, searches for acceptance, and ultimately must come face-to-face with his fate and Shere Khan. Full of lush new original artwork and dozens of interactive scenes that include animation, real-time physics, sound effects and narration designed to get readers lost in the story, Jungle Book Adapted for iPad introduces this timeless tale to a whole new generation of children.
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ROTTERS by Daniel Kraus wins the Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production
The American Library Association has named Rotters by Daniel Kraus, read by Kirby Heyborne, as the 2012 Odyssey Award winner, honoring excellence in children’s and young adult audiobooks. Additionally, two other Listening Library/Books on Tape titles have been named Odyssey Honor Books: Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt, read by Lincoln Hoppe, and Young Fredle by Cynthia Voigt, read by Wendy Carter.
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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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