Random House

Random House. Assumed its current ownership with its acquisition by Bertelsmann in 1998, which brought together the imprints of the former Random House. With those of the former Bantam Doubleday Dell. Random Houses adult publishing groups are the Crown Publishing Group, the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, and the Random House Publishing Group. The Random House Children's Books division is the world's biggest publisher of books for young readers. Together, these groups and their imprints publish fiction and nonfiction, both original and reprints, by several of the foremost and most popular writers of our time.