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Random House is a publishing division of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG, which acquired it in 1998. It was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two years after they had acquired the Modern Library imprint. Cerf is quoted as saying, "We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random," which suggested the name Random House. A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ...
Bertelsmann is a transnational media corporation founded in 1835, based in Gütersloh, Germany. ...
1927 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Bennett Cerf photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1932 Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 - August 27, 1971) was a publisher and founder of Random House, also known for his own compilations of jokes and puns, for regular personal appearances lecturing across the United States, and for his television appearances in...
The Modern Library, a current division of Random House publishers, was founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. ...
In the publishing business, an imprint is a brand name under which a work is published. ...
Its imprints currently include the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Chatto and Windus, the Crown Publishing Group, the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, Ebury Press, the Knopf Publishing Group, the Random House Audio Publishing Group, Random House Children's Books, the Random House Diversified Publishing Group, the Random House Information Group, the Random House Ballantine Publishing Group, and Random House Ventures. It also has a division called Del Rey Manga, which publishes manga in English in North America. Chatto and Windus has been, since 1987, an imprint of Random House, the publishers. ...
Del Rey Manga, an arm of Random House Publishing (the publishing division of Bertelsmann AG), is a company that publishes manga in North America. ...
Rurouni Kenshin manga, volume 1 (English version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is the third largest continent in area and fourth in population after Asia and Africa in area and population and Europe in population. ...
Random House entered reference publishing in 1947 with the American College Dictionary, which was followed in 1966 by its first unabridged dictionary. It publishes today the Random House Webster's Unabridged and Random House Webster's College dictionaries, probably the main competitors for Merriam-Webster reference titles.
The distinguished American publishers Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and Pantheon Books were acquired by Random House in 1960 and 1961, respectively; works continue to be published under these imprints with editorial independence. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ...
Pantheon Books was an American publishing company that was acquired by Random House in 1961. ...
1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The publisher's main office is located at 1745 Broadway in Manhattan, in a 684-foot tower completed in 2003 and spanning the entire west side of the block between West 55th Street and west 56th. Its lobby showcases floor-to-ceiling glassed-in bookcases filled with books published by the company's many imprints. This article is about the street in New York City. ...
Manhattan is an island bordering the lower Hudson River. ...
One of its major competitors in Germany is the Holtzbrinck Group.
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