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Bertelsmann Plans to Raise Stake in Penguin Random House
March 25, 2016 at 8:30 am

Bertelsmann has reported a 4.7% rise in full-year core profit and reiterated its plan to raise its stake in Penguin Random House, the book publisher which helped to drive the earnings increase. The German media group controls RTL entertainment company and owns about half of Penguin Random House, publisher of bestselling authors such as John…

Press Release: Penguin Random House UK Launches ‘The Scheme’ to Find the Marketers of Tomorrow
March 14, 2016 at 2:35 pm

LONDON — March 14, 2016 — Penguin Random House UK has today launched ‘The Scheme’, an entry-level programme which aims to attract the marketers of tomorrow and find people with creative talent and potential who may have never considered a career in publishing. Designed to attract and assess applicants based on their potential rather than experience,…

How Clearleft Created Penguin Random House’s Website
March 3, 2016 at 2:15 pm

Penguin Random House started life as the world’s largest English language publisher after £2.4 billion merger in 2013 and has since launched two new websites – one aimed at consumers and one at the corporate world. We chat to the founder and managing director of Brighton-based design agency Clearleft, Andy Budd, about how they created…

U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Apple Ebook Settlement
February 19, 2016 at 2:28 pm

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld Apple Inc's $450 million settlement of claims that it harmed consumers by conspiring with five publishers to raise ebook prices. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan rejected a challenge by ebooks purchaser John Bradley to the fairness, reasonableness and adequacy of Apple's class-action antitrust settlement…

Press Release: Penguin Random House UK Launches Best-in-Class Consumer and Company Websites
January 26, 2016 at 2:33 pm

LONDON—January 20, 2016—Penguin Random House UK is today launching two new websites: a Penguin-branded website for consumers, focusing on its authors, brands and books (penguin.co.uk) and a Penguin Random House UK company website for its business audiences (penguinrandomhouse.co.uk). Coming together for the first time in one website, Penguin, Puffin and Ladybird – the publishing brands…

PRH UK Drops College Requirement for New Positions
January 18, 2016 at 2:18 pm

Penguin Random House UK has stopped requiring college degrees of job applicants. There's a rule of thumb in employment and recruitment that job requirements and salary are set just high enough to get applicants who are good enough to meet one's needs. If one has an excess of qualified applicants, one can raise the requirements…

Press Release: ALA and PRH Partner on 2nd Annual Readathon
January 15, 2016 at 2:56 pm

CHICAGO—January 13, 2016—The American Library Association (ALA) today announced that they have joined with Penguin Random House to support the second annual National Readathon Day, which will take place on Saturday, May 21, 2016. It is a day dedicated to the joy of reading and giving, when readers everywhere can join together in their local…

The Big 5 Publishers Sat Out Deal-Making in 2015
January 11, 2016 at 1:04 pm

The biggest deals in the publishing industry in 2015 occurred outside of the trade sector. Unlike 2013, when the Random House–Penguin merger was completed, or 2014, when HarperCollins acquired Harlequin, the major trade houses did not make any major acquisitions last year. The biggest acquisitions in 2015 were in professional and educational publishing, led by…

FYI: Penguin Random House Is Still in the Vanity Business
January 8, 2016 at 12:58 pm

Penguin Random House announced the sale of Author Solutions on Tuesday, leading to headlines stating it has exited the self-publishing business and various commentators congratulating it for cleaning house. Unfortunately, neither of those things are true. Four Penguin Random House-owned vanity presses will remain in operation – Partridge India, Partridge Singapore, Partridge Africa, and MeGustaEscribir…