Penguin Group
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| Parent company | Pearson PLC |
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| Founded | 1935 |
| Founder | George Palmer Putnam & John Wiley |
| Headquarters location | City of Westminster London, England |
| Imprints | see below |
| Revenue |  £ 1.05billion (2010) |
| 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. Other separate divisions can be found in the United States, Ireland, New Zealand, India, Australia, Canada, China and South Africa.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Imprints
Penguin Group imprints include the following:[4]
[edit] See also
- Amazon breakthrough novel award
- Pearson Education
- Pearson PLC
- The Big Six publishing companies:
[edit] 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://us.penguingroup.com/static/pages/publishers/index.html.
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[edit] 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
