Curated playlist
Random House
- Vintage BooksVintage Books publishes both Toni Morrison and Haruki Murakami. It began in 1954 as a paperback line inside Knopf.
- The Bodley HeadThe Bodley Head began with a piece of sculpture. Above the door of a London bookshop in 1887 sat a bust of a man long dead, and the shop took its name from him. Over the following century and more, that name appeared on the first Penguin…
- Random HouseRandom House got its name from a casual remark in 1927. Bennett Cerf said they would publish a few books at random.
- Bantam BooksBantam Books beat Rhode Island's book blacklist in a unanimous 1963 Supreme Court ruling.
- Viking PressViking Press was founded in New York City on the 1st of March 1925. Two men started it, Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheimer. Its formal name today is Viking Penguin, and it is also listed as Viking Books. It is an American…
- Alfred A. KnopfKahlil Gibran's The Prophet sold only 1,159 copies in its first year. Its sales then kept doubling.
- Bantam SpectraMore than 20 Star Wars novels came out under Bantam Spectra before Lucasfilm moved its books elsewhere.
- Pantheon BooksIn February 1990, Pantheon Books editor André Schiffrin was asked to resign. He refused to cut titles or staff.
- Ballantine BooksBallantine Books bet readers would buy the same new book twice.
- Heinemann (publisher)The publisher Heinemann opened in 1890 with just one book.
- Del Rey BooksDel Rey Books began in 1977 with a fantasy novel no major publisher had wanted. A married couple ran the new imprint.
- Hogarth PressThe Hogarth Press began with a nineteen-pound handpress in a Richmond dining room.