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Penguin Random House

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212-782-9000
1745 Broadway
New York, NY 10019
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Author Portal
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Penguin
212-366-2000
375 Hudson Street
New York, NY 10014
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Earnings
Charting Publishers’ Performance: 2006 – 2013

The Largest Trade Publishers

2014
Bertelsmann Sales Are Flat In Third Quarter, As Asset Changes Weigh On Profits
Penguin Random House Has Softer Sales (Probably) and Strong Earnings In First Half
Pearson half-year highlights

2013
Sales: €2.655 billion* 
Operating EBIT: €309 million
[includes only 6 months of Penguin results, and the separate Random House Germany unit]
Random House Has “Second Best Year Ever”
Pearson Books £202 Million Gain On the “Sale” of Penguin

  • 2012: Random House Posts Big Profits On Fifty Shades
  • $5000 Holiday Bonus for Every US Employee
  • 2011: Random House Profit Increases as Bertelsmann Plans To Reshape Company In Next 5-10 Years
  • 2010: Revenues and Profits Grow Thanks To Digital Market Boost
  • 2009: Results Are Flat
  • 2008: Weak Dollar Pushes Results Down
  • 2007: Weak Dollar Pulls Down RH; Direct Group On the Block
  • Estimated Results: 2002 – 2007

 

The Merger(s)

  • At Penguin Publishing Group: Tart Takes Over Viking As Ferraro Leaves, Putnam and Dutton Combine, Hudson Street & Gotham Close
  • McIntosh to Lead Penguin Adult Publishing As Kennedy Exits Later This Year; Malaviya and Updike Promoted
  • New Penguin Random House Logo Has Neither A Penguin Nor A House
  • Santillana Spanish-Language Acquisition Closes
  • Penguin Random House Acquires Santillana Trade Publishing 
  • Will Close Two Penguin US Warehouses By June 2015
  • Combined PRH UK Children’s Group Looks to Cut Up to 12% of Jobs
  • Penguin and Random Children’s Merge In UK
  • Dohle Commits to Print, Scaled Innovation, and Alignment with Retail Partners in Frankfurt Talk
  • Takes Full Ownership of South Africa’s Random House Struik
  • Buys Out Penguin’s Partner In India
  • Penguin Random House Merger Is Completed
  • Random House to Take Complete Ownership of Random House Mondadori
  • Penguin and Random House Make Merger Plan Official
  • A Look Back At the 1998 Merger of BDD and Random House

Bertelsmann/Random House M&A and Investments

  • Bertelsmann Buys Educational/Training Software Maker Relias Learning for About $540 Million
  • The Talk of Frankfurt 2015: A Bertelsmann Buyout of Pearson’s Penguin Random House Share?
  • Bertelsmann Buys Balance of Gruner + Jahr
  • Berteslmann to Exit German Book Club Business
  • Sells Minority Stake In Anobii
  • Bertelsmann Commits Another $100 Million+ to University Ventures
  • Former Rodale Star Zinczenko Pairs with Random House On Imprint, Book Deal, and Distribution
  • RH Buys Figment.com
  • Bertelsmann Backs Food52, Which Will Partner with Random House
  • RH Canada Becomes Sole Owner of McClelland & Stewart
  • Bertelsmann Invests $50 Million As Anchor In University Ventures
  • RH Resurrects TasteBook
  • Sells Triumph Publishing Back to Owners
  • Monacelli Press Buys Back Its Independence
  • RH Buys Digital Agency Smashing Ideas
  • BDMI Joins New Financing Round for RoyaltyShare
  • Random House Joins BDMI with Separate Investment In Flat World Knowledge
  • BDMI Leads $15 Million Round for Flat World
  • Discloses Sales of Korean and Japanese Divisions
  • RH Buys Ten Speed Press
  • Author Solutions Buys Xlibris
  • Sells Direct Group North America to Najafi
  • Joins $4 Million Backing for RoyaltyShare

 

Courts and Controversies
2014
Class Action Suit Against Author Solutions Moves Forward
Penguin India Defends Withdrawal of Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus

2013
Some Documents About Apple and Random House, On Agency, From the Trial
RH Changes Contract Terms for Digital Imprints In Response to Controversy

2012
Random House Raises eBook Wholesale Prices Significantly
ALA Head “Deeply Disappointed” In Random House Library eBook Price Raises

2010
Random House Tames The Jackalope; Wylie Drops Amazon Titles
Puts Business Dealings with Wylie Agency On Hold After Odyssey Editions Launch
Wylie’s Odyssey: Behind the Deal and Across the Business
In “Unique Situation,” Licenses Styron eBook Rights to Open Road

2008
Moves to Reduce eRoyalty Rates

 

Imprints & Initiatives
2014
Universal Has Two-Year First Look Deal With Penguin Random House
A Food52 Imprint
“My Independent Bookshop” Reader Shelves, In the UK

2013
Penguin Resumes Selling Full Digital Library Catalog to OverDrive, Baker & Taylor
Resurrects Tastebook
Former Rodale Star Zinczenko Pairs with Random House On Imprint, Book Deal, and Distribution
Launches Facebook App BookScout

2012
Powers Publishers Lunch Bookateria
Adds 3 Digital Imprints: Alibi, Hydra and Flirt
Random UK Creates Division for Licensing and More
Random House Films Adds Television Development Unit, In Partnership with Bertelsmann’s FremantleMedia
Author Portal Goes Live
Joins In New Skoobe eBook Subscription Service in Germany

2011
RH Worlds Goes Deeper In Transmedia
BookLamp and RH
Pairs with Politico for Online Store and Books Line
Revives Loveswept As Digital-Only Romance Imprint
Adds Fiction Line, Hogarth, to Crown in the US and Chatto in the UK
Adopts Agency Model In US
Bankrupt Borders Owes RH $33.5 Million and Penguin $41 million

2010
Offers A Big Part of Their Headquarters Building for Sublet
Sets Up Game Development Unit

2009
Cancels Annual Frankfurt Party 

2008

Restructurings
Crown, 2014 (New religious publishing leaders as Steve Cobb Retires from WaterBrook Multnomah
Crown, 2014
Crown (Watson-Guptill; Potter Craft, Amphoto), 2013
Crown, 2013
RH Trade Paperbacks, 2013
Scotland’s Mainstream to Stop Publishing; Backlist to Be Reissued Under Random UK, 2013
Canada, 2012
Crown, 2012
Crown Paperbacks, 2010
Crown (the big one), 2010
UK Divisions Lays Off 33, 2009
Crown (the first one), 2009
The Sales Groups, 2009
Knopf, 2009
Doubleday and Broadway, 2008
Bantam Dell and Doubleday, 2008
Dohle Picked to Lead RH, 2008
Insiders Expect Olson to be Forced Out After Declining Results, 2008

 

 

 

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