Our Publishers

Random House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. The company comprises many publishing groups and their imprints, which publish fiction and nonfiction, both original and reprints, by some of the foremost and most popular writers of our time.

Bantam Dell Publishing Group

In 1999, Bantam Books and Dell Publishing merged to form The Bantam Dell Publishing Group, the largest division of Random House, Inc, which includes books published under the following imprints: Bantam Hardcover, Bantam Mass Market, Bantam Trade Paperback, Spectra, Delacorte Press Hardcover, Dell Mass Market Paperback, Delta Trade Paperback, The Dial Press Hardcover and Dial Press Trade Paperback.

Bantam Books, established in 1945, is one of the most successful publishers of adult fiction and nonfiction. In addition to being the nation's largest mass market paperback publisher, Bantam publishes a select yet diverse hardcover list, which includes the bestselling novelists Dean Koontz, Tom Robbins, Luanne Rice, Lisa Gardner, Tami Hoag, George R.R. Martin, and Louis L'Amour, one of the bestselling writers of all time. Bantam is also the proud publisher of some of the landmark nonfiction books published in the last two decades including Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman, Dr. Christiane Northrup's Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom, and the #1 bestseller Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley with Ron Powers, as well as notable bestselling memoirs, such as Iacocca by Lee Iacocca and William Novak; It Doesn't Take A Hero by General Norman Schwarzkopf with Peter Petre, and John Glenn: A Memoir by John Glenn and Nick Taylor.

Dell Publishing, a leading publisher of adult fiction and nonfiction for over seven decades, is home to the bestselling female novelist of our time, Danielle Steel, who is published in Delacorte hardcover and Dell paperback. Dell also publishes the biggest-selling male novelist of the last decade, John Grisham, as a Dell paperback author. Dell is also the publisher of bestselling writers Thomas Harris, Lee Child, Diana Gabaldon and the late Kurt Vonnegut. The Dial Press publishes a selective, yet wide-ranging roster of talented and award winning fiction and nonfiction writers, including #1 New York Times bestseller Sophie Kinsella, Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, Marie Arana, Elizabeth McCracken, Allegra Goodman, David Schickler, and the world-renowned and award-winning singer, songwriter and human rights activist Sting.

Crown Publishing Group

The Crown Publishing Group originated in 1933 and is known today for the broad scope of its publishing program and its singular market responsiveness, qualities that are reflected in its savvy selection of authors and books and in its aggressive efforts to market them.

Doubleday Broadway

Doubleday's century of publishing began in 1897, when Frank Nelson Doubleday founded Doubleday & McClure Company in partnership with magazine publisher Samuel McClure. Among their first bestsellers was The Day's Work by Rudyard Kipling. While the alliance between Doubleday and McClure lasted only three years, a long and profitable friendship grew between Doubleday and Kipling, who, using Mr. Doubleday's initials, "F.N.D.," nicknamed him "effendi," the Turkish word for "chief"; this name remained with Doubleday for his entire career.

Knopf Publishing Group

Alfred A. Knopf was founded in 1915 and has long been known as a publisher of distinguished hardcover fiction and nonfiction. Its list of authors includes Toni Morrison, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, Alice Munro, Anne Rice, Anne Tyler, Jane Smiley, Richard Ford, Julia Child, Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Michael Ondaatje, as well as such classic writers as Thomas Mann, Willa Cather, John Hersey, and John Cheever.

Random House Publishing Group

The flagship imprint of Random House, Inc., the Random House Publishing Group had its origins in 1925 when Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two New Yorkers in their mid-twenties, acquired a line of classics and contemporary American works called The Modern Library from publisher Horace Liveright. The company assumed the name Random House two years later, in 1927, when Cerf and Klopfer decided to publish a few books on the side, "at random." Their artist friend Rockwell Kent drew his now celebrated logo of a random house, which made its debut in February l927. Among the first titles of the new imprint were limited editions illustrated by Kent of Voltaire's Candide and Melville's Moby Dick.

Ballantine Books is one of America's largest publishers of hardcover, trade paperback, and mass market paperback books. Founded in 1952, Ballantine was acquired by Random House in 1973. Its imprints include Ballantine Books, Ballantine Reader's Circle, Del Rey, Del Rey/LucasBooks, Fawcett, Ivy, One World, and Wellspring. Ballantine Books includes a backlist of more than 3,000 titles.

RH Audio Publishing Group

The Random House Audio Publishing Group is the U.S. market leader in audio publishing for both adults and children. A full-line audio publisher, it offers titles in both abridged and unabridged formats on cassettes, compact discs, and by digital delivery. The group's imprints publish works in conjunction with other Random House publishing divisions, as well as acquiring titles from other publishers.

Random House Children's Books

Random House Children's Books is the world's largest English-language children's trade book publisher. Creating books for preschool children through young adult readers, in all formats from board books to activity books to picture books and novels, Random House Children's Books brings together award-winning authors and illustrators, world-famous franchise characters, and multimillion-copy series.

Random House publishes many of America's most popular and highly acclaimed authors for young people, including David Almond, Judy Blume, Ann Brashares, Sandra Boynton, David Carter, Caroline B. Cooney, Robert Cormier, Roald Dahl, Patricia Reilly Giff, Carl Hiaasen, Leo Lionni, Mary Pope Osborne, Christopher Paolini, Barbara Park, Gary Paulsen, Tamora Pierce, Jerry Pinkney, Philip Pullman, Louis Sachar, Jerry Spinelli, and Markus Zusak. Random House Children's Books is also the home of the beloved and bestselling Dr. Seuss Books, and other popular licenses and characters, including Arthur, Babar, Barbie, the Berenstain Bears, Disney, Sesame Workshop, and Thomas the Tank Engine.

In 1957, Random House pioneered the beginning reader genre when it launched the Beginner Books series with Dr. Seuss's classic The Cat in the Hat. Random House's Yearling Books imprint, established in 1966, was one of the first to produce paperback editions of popular novels. Random House led the way again in 1984 with another new series, Step into Reading, the first original paperback line in the beginning reader genre and the first series to carry grade and reading level distinctions on its covers. Over the years, Random House has introduced many other series specifically designed for young readers, including the Stepping Stones first chapter book series Marvin Redpost and A to Z Mysteries and the enormously popular Magic Tree House and Junie B. Jones series, which appear consistently on the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today bestseller lists and have sold millions of copies worldwide.

In addition to these popular series, Random House Children's Books publishes enduringly popular fiction such as Anne of Green Gables, My Father's Dragon, and The Phantom Tollbooth, as well as Newbery Honor- and Medal-winning books including Bud, Not Buddy, Holes, The Giver, A Single Shard, Lily's Crossing, Whittington, Hoot, Hattie Big Sky, Penny from Heaven, The Dark-Thirty, and Shabanu. The Random House list also boasts numerous Caldecott Honor- and Medal-winning books, among them Tar Beach, Time Flies, Song and Dance Man, and Leo Lionni's Frederick, Swimmy, and Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse.

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RH Direct, Inc.

Random House Direct, Inc. creates and publishes a variety of unique programs, which we bring direct to your home.

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RH Information Group

Fodor's Travel Publications is comprised of the Fodor's Book Group and Fodors.com. It is the largest English-language travel information publisher in the world, providing travelers with the very best in travel guides. Offering more than 440 guides to destinations worldwide, Fodor's has been a leader in the travel publishing industry for over 60 years, and it continues to enjoy rapid growth through aggressive travel book marketing, a series of enterprising line extensions, and new ventures.

RH International

Random House stands for quality. It also stands for a broad spectrum of literary voices supplied by more than 100 publishing companies in 13 countries. These include historic names such as Doubleday and Alfred A. Knopf (USA); Ebury and Transworld (Great Britain); Plaza & Janés (Spain); Sudamericana (Argentina) and Goldmann (Germany). Random House attaches great importance to its publishers' independence, and diversity is our publishing goal.

RH Large Print

Random House Large Print Publishing focuses on offering editions of books from Random House and other's publishers aimed at readers looking for books in large print. The Random House Large Print division publishes a full-line of bestselling fiction and nonfiction titles for the ever expanding market of people who want good looking books at great value, but in easier to read editions. We publish roughly 60 titles per year, in hardcover and at the same price as the regularly-sized trade editions.

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RH Value Publishing

The businesses in the RH Value Publishing group focus on editions of books from Random House and other publishers aimed at special market segments and the bargain/promotional book market.

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RH Ventures

Random House Ventures, L.L.C. is the venture capital investment subsidiary of Random House, Inc., the world's largest consumer book publisher. Random House Ventures, launched in 2000, focuses on companies which have strong content, channel, or IP positions and which operate at the intersection of publishing and technology. Its portfolio companies include VOCEL (www.VOCEL.com), Audible, Inc. (www.audible.com, ADBL on NASDAQ), The Princeton Review, Inc. (www.review.com, REVU on NASDAQ), American Reading Company (www.americanreading.com), Xlibris (www.xlibris.com), Classic Media (www.classicmedia.tv) and Ebrary (www.ebrary.com). Random House, Inc. is a publishing market leader in 12 countries around the world, and publishes more than 10,000 new adult and children's titles annually in hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, audio, and electronic formats. Random House, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, a leading global media company with consolidated revenues of approximately U.S. $20 billion. With more than 600 individual companies, Bertelsmann has significant interests in all areas of media, including books, magazines, music, television, direct marketing and media services.

Waterbrook Press

The WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group was launched in September 1996 as an autonomous evangelical Christian publishing division of Random House, Inc. as WaterBrook Press. Since the release of their first books in February 1998, the publishing program has grown dramatically. With the purchase of Harold Shaw Publishers in 2000 and the acquisition of Multnomah Publishers in August 2006, the list of authors includes such best-selling and well-respected writers as Amy Grant, Liz Curtis Higgs, Stephen Arterburn, Kay Arthur, David Gregory, Joanna Weaver, Shannon Ethridge, Dr. James Dobson, Shaunti Feldhahn, Andy Stanley, Francine Rivers, Robin Jones Gunn, Joshua Harris, and Bruce Wilkinson.

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