Random House – Number One in the World of Book Publishing

Markus Dohle

Chairman and CEO, Random House

 

“Random House is home to many of the world's preeminent book publishers, each uniquely empowered with the freedom to create, without corporate or external interference, autonomous, diverse, author- and reader-focused editorial programs. Random House is committed to reinvesting the results of its current publishing successes in the future development of authors, state-of-the-art technology support for our publishers and booksellers, and in the career development of our employees worldwide.”

Books turn people into explorers. They open the gates to new worlds and new insights. Nowhere else will readers make as many discoveries as at Random House. With more than 11,000 new books issued a year and 500 million books sold annually, Random House is the world’s largest trade publishing group.

Authors

Random House's publishing programs offer an unrivalled mix of great literature, excellent entertainment, and highly regarded information and enlightenment written by such admired authors as Dan Brown, Bill Bryson, Bill Clinton, E. L. Doctorow, Ildefonso Falcones, Noah Gordon, Al Gore, John Grisham, John Irving, Wladimir Kaminer, Walter Kempowski, Dean Koontz, Nigella Lawson, Charlotte Link, Tim Mälzer. Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Toni Morrison, Julia Navarro, Orhan Pamuk, Christopher Paolini, Danielle Steel, and John Updike.

J.M. Coetzee

John Grisham

Toni Morrison

Publishing Houses

Random House stands for the highest quality – and a wide variety of reading experiences. The publisher presents a broad spectrum of editorial voices comprised of nearly 200 editorially independent imprints in 15 countries. These include historic publishing houses such as Doubleday and Alfred A. Knopf (USA); Ebury and Transworld (UK); Plaza & Janés (Spain); Sudamericana (Argentina) and Goldmann (Germany). Random House empowers each of its publishers with autonomy and independence from outside interference, thus ensuring the greatest diversity for its publishing. More than fifty authors published by Random House have been awarded a Nobel Prize.

Facts & Figures 

Shareholders

Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA (100%)