- Penguin Group
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Penguin Group Parent company Pearson PLC Founded 1935 Headquarters location City of Westminster
London, EnglandImprints see below Official website www.penguin.com The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher, the largest in the world as of 2011[update], having overtaken Random House in 2009. The Penguin Group is the name of the incorporated division of parent Pearson PLC that oversees these publishing operations. Penguin Books has its registered office in City of Westminster, London, England.[1][2]
Its British division is Penguin Books Ltd. Its United States arm is Penguin Group (USA) Inc. The Irish division is Penguin Ireland, the New Zealand division is Penguin Group (NZ), the Indian division is Penguin Books India, the Australian division is Penguin Group (Australia). In Canada, Penguin operates as a division of Pearson Canada Inc. There are also Penguin Group (China) and Penguin Group (South Africa).
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History
Penguin Books Ltd. (est. 1935) of the United Kingdom was bought over by Pearson Longman in 1970.
Penguin Group (USA) Inc. was formed in 1996 as a result of the merger between Penguin Books USA and the Putnam Berkley Group. The newly formed company was originally called Penguin Putnam Inc., but in 2003 changed its name to Penguin Group (USA) Inc. to reflect the parent Pearson PLC's grouping of all the Penguin companies worldwide under the supervisory umbrella of Pearson's own Penguin Group division.
The different Penguin companies use many imprints, many of which used to be independent publishers.[3] Penguin Group (USA) Inc. also operates its own speaker's bureau that books speaking engagements for many of the publisher's authors.
Imprints
Penguin Group imprints include the following:[4]
- Ace Books
- Penguin Allen Lane
- Alloy Books
- Alpha Books
- Arkana Publishing
- Arkangel
- Avery
- Berkley Books
- Blue Hen Books
- Blue Rider Press
- Boulevard
- Claremont
- Copp Clark
- Current
- DAW Books
- Dial Books for Young Readers
- Dorling Kindersley
- DreamWorks[citation needed]
- Dutton
- Dutton Children's
- Fig Tree
- Firebird Books
- Frederick Warne & Co
- Gotham Books
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Ginn and Company
- HP Books
- Hamish Hamilton
- Hamish Hamilton Children's Books
- Hudson Street Press
- Jam
- Jove
- Ladybird Books
- Lantern
- Mentor
- Meridian
- Michael Joseph
- New American Library (NAL)
- Obsidian
- Onyx
- Roc Books
- Signet Books
- Signet Classics
- Signet Eclipse
- Topaz
- Paperstar
- Penguin Books (includes Penguin Classics, Puffin Books)
- Penguin Press
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Perigee Books
- Philomel
- Phyllis Fogelman Books
- Planet Dexter
- Plume
- Portfolio
- Price Stern Sloan
- Puffin Books
- Putnam
- Razorbill
- Reed Publishing
- Reinhardt Books
- Rendezvous Press
- Riverhead Books
- Rough Guides
- Sentinel HC
- Somerville House
- Speak
- Jeremy P. Tarcher
- Viking Press
- Viking Children's
- Wisden
See also
References
- ^ "26. What is Penguin Books Limited's company registration number?" Penguin Books. Retrieved on 28 August 2009.
- ^ "Maps." City of Westminster. Retrieved on 28 August 2009.
- ^ "Penguin Group (USA): About Us". http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/aboutus/index.html.
- ^ "Penguin: Publishers/Imprints". http://pubeasy.books.penguin.co.uk/pls/pubeasy/bepublist.publist_page.
External links
- Official website
- "About Us" on the Penguin Group (USA) website
- Penguin Books (India) website
- Penguin Ireland website
- Penguin Group(NZ) website
- Penguin Group (Canada): Canadian Publishing Programme Announcement
- An open letter to the Penguin Group from David Brock
- Penguin Group (Australia) official website
- Penguin Portfolio official website
- Frederick Warne & Co official website
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