Editing Random House (section)

{{Short description|American general-interest trade book publisher}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2020}}
{{Use American English|date=October 2024}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Random House
| logo = [[File:Random House logo.svg|frameless]]
| logo_caption = Logo with the 2014 [[Penguin Random House]] wordmark
| parent = [[RCA]] (1965–1980)<br />[[Advance Publications]] (1980–1998)<br />[[Bertelsmann]] (1998–present)
| foundation = {{start date and age|1927}}
| founders = [[Bennett Cerf]], [[Donald Klopfer]]
| defunct = 
| fate = 
| successor = 
| location = [[Random House Tower]], 1745 [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]]
| hq_location_city = [[New York City]]
| hq_location_country = U.S.
| num_locations = 
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = Gina Centrello ([[President (corporate title)|president]] and publisher, The Random House Publishing Group)<br />Barbara Marcus (president and publisher, Random House Children's Books)<br />Nihar Malaviya ([[Chief operating officer|COO]], Random House, Inc.)
| products = Books
| industry = 
| genre = 
| divisions = 
| revenue = {{profit}}€2.142 [[1,000,000,000 (number)|billion]] (2012)
| owner = 
| num_employees = 97,104 {{small|({{As of|2020|Sep|30|df=US|lc=y}})}}
| type = [[Division (business)|Division]]
| traded_as = 
| website = {{URL|https://www.randomhousebooks.com/|randomhousebooks.com}}
}}

'''Random House''' is an imprint and publishing group of [[Penguin Random House]].<ref name="Random House - Bertelsmann AG">{{Cite web |url=http://bertelsmann.de/Bereiche/Random-House.html |title=Random House – Bertelsmann AG |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603164501/http://bertelsmann.de/Bereiche/Random-House.html |archive-date=June 3, 2013 |access-date=August 13, 2012 |language=de |url-status=dead  }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Größter Buchverlag der Welt bekommt neuen Chef |date=May 20, 2008 |trans-title=Largest book publisher in the world gets new boss |url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/random-house-groesster-buchverlag-der-welt-bekommt-neuen-chef-1546483.html |agency=[[Reuters]] |work=[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130822042601/http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/random-house-groesster-buchverlag-der-welt-bekommt-neuen-chef-1546483.html |url-status=live |archive-date=August 22, 2013 |access-date=August 21, 2013  }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.biz/about/factsandfigures/ |title=Randomhouse.biz – About Us |date=December 31, 2011 |access-date=August 12, 2013 |website=Business Solutions |publisher=Random House |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501170617/http://www.randomhouse.biz/about/factsandfigures/ |url-status=live |archive-date=May 1, 2013  }}</ref> Founded in 1927 by businessmen [[Bennett Cerf]] and [[Donald Klopfer]] as an imprint of [[Modern Library]], it quickly overtook Modern Library as the parent imprint. Over the following decades, a series of acquisitions made it into one of the largest publishers in the United States. In 2013, it was merged with [[Penguin Group]] to form [[Penguin Random House]], which is owned by the [[Germany]]-based media conglomerate [[Bertelsmann]]. Penguin Random House uses its brand for Random House Publishing Group and Random House Children's Books, as well as several imprints.