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| Founded | 30 July 1935 (as Penguin Books) |
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| Headquarters | 20 Vauxhall Bridge Rd, London, United Kingdom |
| Products | Books |
| Revenue |  £1.05 billion (2010) |
| Parent | Penguin Random House |
| Website | penguin |
Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann. The new company was created by a merger that was finalised on 1 July 2013, with Bertelsmann initially owning 53% of the joint venture, and Pearson PLC initially owning the remaining 47%.[2] Since 18 December 2019, Penguin Random House has been wholly owned by Bertelsmann.[3]
Penguin Books has its registered office in City of Westminster, London.[4][5]
Its British division is Penguin Books Ltd. Other separate divisions are located in the United States, Ireland, New Zealand, India, Australia, Canada, China, Brazil and South Africa.
History[]
Penguin Books Ltd. (est. 1935) of the United Kingdom was bought by Pearson Longman in 1970. In 1975, Penguin acquired the American hardcover firm Viking Press.[6] In 1986, Penguin acquired the New American Library, a mass-market paperback publisher.[7] In 1995, Penguin acquired the independent publisher Donald I. Fine.[8]
Penguin Group (USA) Inc. was formed in 1996 as a result of the merger between Penguin Books USA and the Putnam Berkley Group after Penguin acquired Putnam Berkley from MCA.[9][10] The newly formed company was originally called Penguin Putnam Inc., but, in 2003, it changed its name to Penguin Group (USA) Inc. to reflect the parent Pearson PLC's grouping of all the Penguin companies worldwide under the supervisory umbrella of Pearson's own Penguin Group division.
The different Penguin companies use many imprints, many of which used to be independent publishers.[11] Penguin Group (USA) Inc. also operates its own speaker's bureau that books speaking engagements for many of the publisher's authors. In 2011, the online writing and publishing community Book Country was launched as a subsidiary of Penguin Group USA.[12]
On 11 April 2012, the United States Department of Justice filed United States v. Apple Inc., naming Apple, Penguin, and four other major publishers as defendants. The suit alleged that they conspired to fix prices for e-books and weaken Amazon.com's position in the market in violation of antitrust law.[13] In December 2013, a federal judge approved a settlement of the antitrust claims, in which Penguin and the other publishers paid into a fund that provided credits to customers who had overpaid for books due to the price-fixing.[14]
On 26 October 2012, Pearson entered into talks with rival conglomerate Bertelsmann, over the possibility of combining their respective publishing companies, Penguin Group and Random House. The houses were considered two of the 'Big Six' publishing companies prior to the merger,[15] which became the 'Big Five' upon its completion. The European Union approved the Penguin Random House merger on 5 April 2013.
Imprints[]
Penguin Group imprints include the following:[16]
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- Avery Publishing[17]
- Berkley Books
- Ace Books
- Jove Books
- New American Library (NAL)
- E. P. Dutton
- Dutton Children's
- Plume
- Obsidian
- Onyx
- Roc Books
- Signet Books
- Signet Classics
- Signet Eclipse
- Topaz
- Cartoon Network Books
- Companhia das Letras (70%)
- Dial Press
- Dial Books
- Dial Books for Young Readers
- DK
- Alpha Books
- DK Eyewitness Travel
- Firebird Books
- Frederick Warne & Co
- G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Amy Einhorn
- Marian Wood
- Coward-McCann
- G. P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
- Grosset & Dunlap
- Charter Books (Ace Charter)
- Bedtime Stories
- Junior Library
- Platt & Munk
- HP Books (found 1964, primarily an automotive book publisher)[18]
- Kokila[19]
- Ladybird Books
- Pamela Dorman Books
- Pelican Books
- Penguin Books
- Awa Press[20]
- Hamish Hamilton
- Michael Joseph
- Penguin Classics
- Penguin Press (founded 2003, for literary nonfiction and fiction)[21]
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Price Stern Sloan
- Puffin Books
- Viking Press
- TarcherPerigee[22]
- Philomel Books
- Portfolio
- Razorbill
- Riverhead Books
- Sentinel
- Speak
See also[]
- The other 'Big Five' English-language book publishers:
- Hachette, Holtzbrinck/Macmillan, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster[23]
- Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
- Pearson Education
- Penguin Group (USA) Inc. v. American Buddha
References[]
- ↑ Company history, Penguin Random House
- ↑ Mark Sweney "Penguin and Random House merger to create biggest book publisher ever seen", The Guardian, 29 October 2012
- ↑ Spahr, Wolfgang (18 December 2019) "BMG Parent Bertelsmann to Acquire Full Stake in Penguin Random House" Billboard
- ↑ "26. What is Penguin Books Limited's company registration number? Archived 11 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine" Penguin Books. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
- ↑ "Maps Archived 5 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine." City of Westminster. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
- ↑ Whitman, Alden (11 November 1975). "Viking Press Is Sold to Penguin Books" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/11/archives/viking-press-is-sold-to-penguin-books.html.
- ↑ McDowell, Edwin. "PENGUIN AGREES TO BUY NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY". Retrieved 2 December 2018.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Penguin acquires Donald I. Fine". Publishers Weekly 242 (37): 10–11. 11 September 1995. ISSN 00000019. http://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&issn=00000019&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA17367675&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ↑ Lyall, Sarah (27 November 1996). "Penguin Is Buying MCA's Putnam Berkley for $336 Million". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/27/business/penguin-is-buying-mca-s-putnam-berkley-for-336-million.html.
- ↑ "Now for the Grann Finale". NYMag.com. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Penguin Group (USA): About Us".
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "What's the Penguin About?". Bookcountry.com. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ Mui, Ylan Q. and Hayley Tsukayama (11 April 2012). "Justice Department sues Apple, publishers over e-book prices". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/justice-department-files-suit-against-apple-publishers-report-says/2012/04/11/gIQAzyXSAT_story.html.
- ↑ Molina, Brett (25 March 2014). "E-book price fixing settlements rolling out". USA Today. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/03/25/amazon-settlements-ebooks/6869033/.
- ↑ Edgecliffe, Andrew (26 October 2012). "Penguin and Random House in deal talks". Financial Times. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Penguin: Publishers/Imprints".
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Avery – Publishers – Penguin Group (USA)". Us.penguingroup.com. 4 September 2001. Archived from the original on 5 January 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "HPBooks – Publishers – Penguin Group (USA)". Us.penguingroup.com. Archived from the original on 16 February 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Penguin Young Readers to Launch New Imprint Kokila". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Awa Press | Penguin Books New Zealand". Penguin.co.nz. Archived from the original on 3 March 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "The Penguin Press – Publishers – Penguin Group (USA)". Us.penguingroup.com. Archived from the original on 13 February 2014. Retrieved 27 February 2014.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "TARCHERPERIGEE". penguingroup. Archived from the original on 2 July 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Who Are 'The Big Six'?". Fiction Matters. 5 March 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
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