When Penguin and Random House announced in the fall of 2012 that they intended to merge, Hurricane Sandy was barreling toward New York City, America’s publishing capital. It was an instant metaphor ...

With the Penguin Random House merger now done and dusted, a vast community of book industry folk and readers are sighing a sad sigh of disappointment that the company didn’t take the bull by the horns ...

News of a potential Penguin-Random House merger has birthed a "binders full of women"-level meme on the literary Internet. Pearson announced yesterday that they're discussing the sale of Penguin to ...

Penguin Random House will release four different books for the Baldur's Gate 3 franchise over the course of 2026, with more ...

LONDON, 29 (Reuters) - Pearson said it would merge Penguin Books with Bertelsmann's Random House to create the world's leading consumer publisher, a day after Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Times said his ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Thursday news came from Europe that Random House parent Bertlesmann is in talks with Pearson to acquire its publisher Penguin. Random House is already the largest of the big six major publishers, ...

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The Justice Department has given the green light to Random House and Penguin for their proposed merger, they announced Friday. The department approved the proposed merger of the two major publishing ...

There's big news in the world of publishing: The two conglomerates that own Random House and Penguin announced Monday that they were merging their book businesses to form a new company. German media ...