Random House

Random House, Inc. (or sometimes referred to as The House) is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It is owned by Bertelsmann, a transnational media corporation. Random House is the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House US was founded in 1925 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, when they 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. Its American imprints currently include the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, the Crown Publishing Group including Three Rivers Press, 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. Random House entered... full article at wikipedia