Penguin Random House

The National Book Awards are the Oscars of the publishing industry, although nobody who attended the ceremony on November 16 at Cipriani Wall Street would likely confuse the two. Still, it wasn't without its glamour and drama. That night, Padma Lakshmi, best-selling author and former wife of Salman Rushdie - who only a few months before had been nearly murdered for his writing - was the host.  Read more

Penguin Random House introduced a new promotion feature on the social media platform, and creators are calling it a cash grab

Jokes circulated online when, in 2013, Penguin and Random House merged: would the new mega-publisher, which became the world's biggest trade publishing group, be known as Random Penguin? Penguin House?  Read more

The Authors Guild, along with five other writers' groups and the nonprofit Open Markets Institute, has sent a letter to the Department of Justice asking the government to block Penguin Random House's pending acquisition of Simon & Schuster.  Read more

Penguin Random House parent company Bertelsmann has confirmed that it is interested in acquiring Simon & Schuster once ViacomCBS begins to again actively shop the country's third largest trade publishing house after the pandemic fades Shortly after Viacom and CBS merged, the newly-formed company placed S&S on the sales block.