At PRH, Producing a Publishing Powerhouse

Though Dohle was confident Penguin and Random House would mesh, he acknowledged that he was "happily surprised how quickly we became one company." He attributed that, in part, to the respect employees from both companies had for publishing the best books possible. And it didn't hurt, Dohle noted, that many people had worked at both companies over the course of their careers. Five years into the merger, about half of the PRH staff were employees who began working at PRH after the merger.