Random House is a publishing division of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann based in New York City. 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. Bertelsmann acquired it in 1998. A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Bertelsmann AG is a transnational media corporation founded in 1835, based in Gütersloh, Germany. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Big Apple Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,214. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Bennett Cerf on Whats My Line?, 1962 Bennett Alfred Cerf (May 25, 1898 - August 27, 1971) was a publisher and co-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... The Modern Library, a current division of Random House publishers, was founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. ... In the publishing industry, an imprint is a brand name under which a work is published. ...

Its U.S. imprints currently include the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, the Crown Publishing Group, the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, the Knopf Publishing Group, the Random House Audio Publishing Group, the Random House Diversified Publishing Group, the Random House Information Group, the Random House Ballantine Publishing Group, and Random House Ventures. Del Rey Manga publishes English manga in North America. In the UK, The Random House Group Limited is comprised of four divisions with different publishing remits: Random House, Transworld, Ebury and Random House Children's Books. Its imprints include Jonathan Cape, Harvill Secker, Chatto and Windus, Vintage, Pimlico, Yellow Jersey, Century, Willian Heinemann, Hutchinson, Arrow, Random House Audio Books, Random House Business Books, Ebury Press, Vermilion, Rider, Bantam Press, Doubleday, Corgi, Black Swan, Fodor, Time Out, WaterBrook Press and Mainstream. The Crown Publishing Group is a subsidiary of Random House, the worlds largest English-language general trade book publisher. ... Doubleday is one of the largest book publishing companies in the world. ... Ballantine Books, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine, is a major book publisher and is currently owned by Random House. ... Del Rey Manga, is a company that publishes manga in North America. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... For other uses, see Manga (disambiguation). ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... Jonathan Cape has been since 1987 an imprint of Random House. ... Chatto and Windus has been, since 1987, an imprint of Random House, the publishers. ... Time-out can mean: sport time-out, a break in play that may be called by a side to formulate strategy or respond to an players injury. ...

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 Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged was the original name of a large American dictionary, first published in 1966, and recently renamed the Random House Websters Unabridged Dictionary. ...

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. Random House has been the distributor for Shambhala Publications since 1974. Within the last year, they have begun distributing Rizzoli Books, National Geographic Books, Steerforth Press, Wizards of the Coast, Vertical Books, Welcome Books, Taunton Press, New York Review of Books and Rugged Land. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. ... Pantheon Books was an American publishing company that was acquired by Random House in 1961. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ... Shambhala Publications is a publishing company based in Boulder, Colorado. ...

The publisher's main U.S. 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. A view of Broadway in 1909 Broadway, as the name implies, is a wide avenue in New York City, and is the oldest north-south main thoroughfare in the city, dating to the first New Amsterdam settlement. ... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ...

One of its major competitors in Germany is the Holtzbrinck Group. Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is a Stuttgart-based publishing giant which owns publishing companies worldwide. ...

The company has a well-established reputation and thus has been mentioned in various creative works, including Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. Jason Robert Brown (born 1970 in Ossining, New York) is an American musical theater composer and lyricist. ... The Last Five Years is a one act musical written by Jason Robert Brown and produced off-Broadway in March of 2002. ...

The best known Random House author is perhaps Dan Brown, author of the novel Da Vinci Code, which is 6th best selling book of all time. Dan Brown (born June 22, 1964) is an American author of thriller fiction, best known for writing the controversial 2003 bestselling fiction novel, The Da Vinci Code. ... The Da Vinci Code book cover The Da Vinci Code is a novel written by American author Dan Brown and published in 2003 by Doubleday Fiction (ISBN 0385504209). ...

The media of New York City is internationally influential, with some of the most important newspapers, largest publishing houses, most prolific television studios, and biggest record companies in the world. ...

External links

• Random House official website in Canada
• Random House official website in the U.S.
• Random House official website in the UK
• Random House official website for the Transworld division in the UK
• Random House Readers' Group site in the UK
• Randomhouse.com's history page
• Biography of Bennett Cerf with the quote on the origin of the Random House name

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