Bennett Cerf, co-founder of Random House, published many greats of 20th-century letters. The biography “Nothing Random” looks at his life and the times that shaped him.

In 1960, Dwight Eisenhower’s attorney general, William Rogers, read the paper with alarm. He learned that Random House intended to purchase the venerable publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Rogers began making ...

The largest-ever merger between two publishing houses is now closed and the newly formed Penguin Random House has a new executive team, board of directors and a lot of decisions to make over the next ...

German media giant Bertelsmann, which owns Random House, will control 53 percent of the new entity, with U.K.-based Pearson controlling the other 47 percent. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor ...

In a deal that had been months in the making, Pearson and Bertelsmann announced Monday morning that they have signed an agreement to form a joint venture that will combine the businesses of Random ...

Penguin Random House's Random House division has launched a new imprint dedicated to licensed book publishing. All of Random House’s backlist and frontlist titles tied to licensed properties will be ...

Calling their union “the world’s first truly global trade book publishing company,” Penguin and Random House finalized on Monday morning a merger that brings together two legacy publishers, at a time ...

This has been the story of Penguin Random House these past five years. Privately owned, the company has moved deliberately, while publicly traded competitors like HarperCollins (which is owned by News ...

The most powerful man in Canadian publishing is leading me on a tour of his new cubicle. It’s early afternoon on Tuesday, and Brad Martin, the president and CEO of Penguin Random House Canada, has ...