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Penguin Group is the second largest trade book publisher in the world, behind Random House
Random House

Random House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It has been owned since 1998 by the large German Privately held company media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing....
. It is owned by Pearson PLC
Pearson PLC

Pearson plc is a London-based education and mass media Conglomerate . It is the largest book publisher in the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the United States and Canada....
. Its United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 arm is Penguin Group (USA); its British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 division is Penguin Books
Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a United Kingdom publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a pack of cigarettes....
, the India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
n division is Penguin Books, the Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n division is Penguin Group (Australia), and there is also a Penguin Group (Canada).

Penguin Group (USA) was formed in 1996 as a result of the merger between Penguin Books USA and the Putnam Berkley Group
G. P. Putnam's Sons

G. P. Putnam?s Sons was a major United States book publisher based in New York City, New York. Since its founding in 1838, the company has had several names, including Wiley & Putnam and the more recent Putnam Penguin, Inc....
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The company uses many imprints, many of which used to be independent publishers.








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Penguin Group is the second largest trade book publisher in the world, behind Random House
Random House

Random House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It has been owned since 1998 by the large German Privately held company media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing....
. It is owned by Pearson PLC
Pearson PLC

Pearson plc is a London-based education and mass media Conglomerate . It is the largest book publisher in the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the United States and Canada....
. Its United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 arm is Penguin Group (USA); its British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 division is Penguin Books
Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a United Kingdom publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a pack of cigarettes....
, the India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
n division is Penguin Books, the Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n division is Penguin Group (Australia), and there is also a Penguin Group (Canada).

Penguin Group (USA) was formed in 1996 as a result of the merger between Penguin Books USA and the Putnam Berkley Group
G. P. Putnam's Sons

G. P. Putnam?s Sons was a major United States book publisher based in New York City, New York. Since its founding in 1838, the company has had several names, including Wiley & Putnam and the more recent Putnam Penguin, Inc....
.

The company uses many imprints, many of which used to be independent publishers.

Imprints

Penguin Group imprints include the following:
  • Ace Books
    Ace Books

    Ace Books is the oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books. The company was founded in New York City in 1952 by A. A....
  • Penguin Allen Lane
    Allen Lane

    Sir Allen Lane , was a United Kingdom publisher who founded Penguin Books, bringing high quality, paperback fiction and non-fiction to a mass market....
  • Alloy Books
  • Alpha Books
    Alpha Books

    Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group, is best known for their series of The Complete Idiot's Guide to...Penguin Group is the second largest trade book publisher in the world....
  • Arkana Publishing
    Arkana Publishing

    Arkana Publishing is a publishing imprint of Penguin Group of mainly esoteric literature....
  • Arkangel
  • Avery
  • Berkley Books
    Berkley Books

    Berkley Books is an imprint of Penguin Group that began as an independent company in 1955. It was established by Charles Byrne and Frederic Klein, who were working for Avon and formed "Chic News Company"....
  • Blue Hen Books
  • Boulevard
  • Claremont
  • Copp Clark
  • DAW Books
    DAW Books

    'DAW Books' is a science fiction and fantasy publisher, founded by Donald A. Wollheim following his departure from Ace Books in 1971. The company therefore claims to be "the first publishing company ever devoted exclusively to science fiction and fantasy." The first DAW Book published was the 1972 short story collection Spell of the Witch W...
  • Dial Books for Young Readers
  • Dorling Kindersley
    Dorling Kindersley

    Dorling Kindersley is an international publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 51 languages....
  • DreamWorks
    DreamWorks

    DreamWorks, LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG or DreamWorks Studios, is a major film studios United States film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming....
  • Dutton
  • Dutton Children's
  • Fig Tree
  • Firebird Books
    Firebird Books

    Firebird Books is an imprint of Penguin Group Inc., publishing mainly paperback reprint editions of science fiction and fantasy for teenagers and adults....
  • Frederick Warne & Co
    Frederick Warne & Co

    Frederick Warne & Co was a United Kingdom publishing firm famous for children's books, particularly those of Beatrix Potter. It was founded in 1865 by a bookseller, who gave his own name to the firm....
  • Gotham Books
  • G.P. Putnam's Sons
    • Berkley Books
      Berkley Books

      Berkley Books is an imprint of Penguin Group that began as an independent company in 1955. It was established by Charles Byrne and Frederic Klein, who were working for Avon and formed "Chic News Company"....
    • Grosset & Dunlap
      Grosset & Dunlap

      Grosset & Dunlap is a United States book publisher founded in 1898.The company was purchased by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1982 and today is part of the Great Britain publishing conglomerate, Pearson PLC through its American subsidiary Penguin Group ....
  • Ginn
    GINN

    GINN or Ginn may refer to:*Greg Ginn, American guitarist, formerly of hardcore punk band Black Flag .*Bob Ginn, the owner of Ginn Clubs and Resorts real estate company and owner of the NASCAR Nextel Cup team Ginn Racing....
  • HP Books
  • Hamish Hamilton
    Hamish Hamilton

    Hamish Hamilton Limited was a United Kingdom book publishing house, founded eponymously by the half-Scot half-United States Jamie Hamilton . Confusingly, Jamie Hamilton was often referred to as Hamish Hamilton....
  • Hamish Hamilton Children's Books
  • Jam
  • Jove
  • Ladybird Books
    Ladybird Books

    Ladybird Books is a London-based publishing company, trading as a stand-alone imprint within the Penguin Group of companies. The Ladybird imprint publishes mass-market children's books....
  • Lantern
  • Mentor
  • Meridian
  • Michael Joseph
  • New American Library
    New American Library

    New American Library began publishing paperbacks in the 1940s. After Allen Lane began his Penguin imprint in the UK in 1935, he launched an American branch, Penguin Books, Inc....
     (NAL)
    • Roc Books
      Roc Books

      Roc Books is a paperback imprint of Penguin Group, as part of their New American Library.Roc's authors have included:* Peter S. Beagle* Jim Butcher...
    • Signet
      Signet

      Signet may refer to:* Seal #Signet_rings, a ring with a seal set into it, typically by leaving an impression in sealing wax* Signet Books, an imprint of the New American Library...
    • Onyx
    • Signet Classics
  • Paperstar
  • Penguin Books
    Penguin Books

    Penguin Books is a United Kingdom publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a pack of cigarettes....
     (includes Penguin Classics, Puffin Books)
  • Penguin Press
  • Perigee Books
  • Philomel
  • Phyllis Fogelman Books
  • Planet Dexter
  • Plume
    Plume (publishing)

    Plume is a publishing company in the United States, founded in 1970 as the paperback imprint of New American Library. Today it is a division of Penguin Group, with a backlist of approximately 700 titles....
  • Portfolio
  • Price Stern Sloan
    Price Stern Sloan

    Price Stern Sloan or PSS! is a publisher that was founded in Los Angeles in the early 1960s to publish the Mad Libs that Roger Price and Leonard Stern had concocted during their stint as writers for Steve Allen 's Tonight Show....
  • Puffin Books
    Puffin Books

    Puffin Books is the children's imprint of British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s and '70s it has been the largest publisher of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world....
  • Putnam
    G. P. Putnam's Sons

    G. P. Putnam?s Sons was a major United States book publisher based in New York City, New York. Since its founding in 1838, the company has had several names, including Wiley & Putnam and the more recent Putnam Penguin, Inc....
     (Not an imprint; bought by Penguin in 1996)
  • Razorbill
    Razorbill

    The Razorbill, Alca torda, is a large auk, 38-43 cm in length, with a 60-69 cm wingspan. It is the only living member of the genus Alca....
  • Reinhardt Books
  • Rendezvous Press
  • Riverhead Books
    Riverhead Books

    'Riverhead Books' is a division of Penguin Group .Notable books and major bestsellers published by Riverhead include Journals by Kurt Cobain; The Art of Happiness by His Holiness the Dalai Lama; The Color of Water by James McBride ; Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft by Chang-rae Lee; Fever Pitch, High Fi...
  • Rough Guides
    Rough Guides

    Rough Guides Ltd is a travel guidebook and reference publisher, owned by Pearson PLC. Their travel titles cover more than 200 destinations, and are distributed worldwide through the Penguin Group....
  • Sentinel HC
    Sentinel HC

    Sentinel HC is an United States book publisher established in 2003 as a division of Penguin Group . It was founded by Adrian Zackheim who previously published books by conservative figures....
  • Somerville House
    Somerville House

    Somerville House is an Independent school, Boarding school and day school for girls, located in South Brisbane, Queensland, an inner-city suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Queensland, Australia....
  • Speak
  • Jeremy P. Tarcher
  • Topaz
  • Viking Press
    Viking Press

    Viking Press is an American publishing company currently owned by Penguin Books. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925 by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S....
  • Viking Children's
  • Wisden
    Wisden

    The Wisden Group was a group of companies formed by John Wisden & Co Ltd, publishers of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. As well as John Wisden & Co, the group included the The Wisden Cricketer magazine, Cricinfo ? the world's highest traffic cricket website ? and the Hawk-Eye computerised ball-tracking system, which is used by the media in...


See also

  • Pearson Education
    Pearson Education

    Pearson Education is an international Publishing of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools.Pearson Education is headquarters in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, New Jersey, USA....
  • Pearson PLC
    Pearson PLC

    Pearson plc is a London-based education and mass media Conglomerate . It is the largest book publisher in the United Kingdom, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the United States and Canada....
  • Amazon breakthrough novel award
    Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

    The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award is a contest sponsored by Amazon.com, Penguin Group, Hewlett Packard, CreateSpace and BookSurge to publish and promote a manuscript by an unknown or unpublished author....


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