兰登书屋

兰登书屋—全球图书出版之最
 

 

  彼得·奥尔森
 

 

  (Peter Olson)
 

 

  兰登书屋主席
 

 

  首席执行官
 

 

  "兰登书屋是全球杰出图书出版商的乐园,他们被赋予创新自由,不受企业内部或外部的干涉,自主、多样和以读者为中心的编辑项目更是锦上添花。兰登书屋还致力于将现有出版成果重新投资于作家的未来发展,支持出版商和分销商的新技术,以及全球员工的事业发展。"
 

 

  兰登书屋,美国出版公司,在整个20世纪的世界图书界中扮演着举足轻重的角色。这并不仅仅因为它是全世界最大的出版集团,更是因为它在现代西方文化发展中起到了潜移默化的引领作用。而兰登书屋的创始人――犹太人贝内特•瑟夫又是兰登书屋不折不扣的引领者。
 

 

  兰登书屋之所以曾经令无数出版人向往,因为它出版了大量不朽的精品著作。这些精品在那个特殊的时代,给美国乃至整个世界学术界和大众文化都带来了不可忽视的影响。兰登书屋是不可复制的,因为它所存在的那个时代,因为它所处的历史背景,更因为它的创始人贝内特•瑟夫的与众不同。贝内特•瑟夫是文化气质和企业家精神的完美组合,他拥有一个出版家所应当具有的一切品质。对大众文化发展的准确判断和令人目瞪口呆的策划能力,使他把一本本畅销著作演绎为传奇。从一套现代文库起家;让罗斯福总统为他的书做广告;求着海关没收他的书,以便突破美国法律的禁令……一次次匪夷所思的精妙策划令读者对他的书产生了兴趣,更记住了兰登书屋的品牌。但是,贝内特•瑟夫绝不是一个只会玩市场的商人,更是一个率性、有责任心的文化人,正因为如此,他所经营的兰登书屋才能在如此长的时间内得到大众和学术界的普遍认可。
 

 

  兰登书屋          
 

 

  Random House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It is a division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the foremost media companies in the world.
 

 

  Random House, Inc. assumed its current form with its acquisition by Bertelsmann in 1998, which brought together the imprints of the former Random House, Inc. with those of the former Bantam Doubleday Dell. Random House, Inc.'s publishing groups include, the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, the Crown Publishing Group, the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, the Knopf Publishing Group, the Random House Audio Publishing Group, Random House Children's Books, the Random House Diversified Publishing Group, the Random House Information Group, the Random House Publishing Group, and Random House Ventures.
 

 

  Together, these groups and their imprints publish fiction and nonfiction, both original and reprints, by some of the foremost and most popular writers of our time. They appear in a full range of formats--including hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, audio, electronic, and digital, for the widest possible readership from adults to young adults and children.
 

 

  The reach of Random House, Inc. is global, with subsidiaries and affiliated companies in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Through Random House International, the books published by the imprints of Random House, Inc. are sold in virtually every country in the world.
 

 

  Random House has long been committed to publishing the best literature by writers both in the United States and abroad. In addition to their commercial success, books published by Random House, Inc. have won more major awards than those published by any other company--including the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
 

 

  The company was founded in l925, when Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer purchased The Modern Library, reprints of classic works of literature, from publisher Horace Liveright. Two years later, in 1927, they decided to broaden their publishing activities, and the Random House colophon made its debut.
 

 

  Random House first made international news by successfully defending in court the U.S. publication of James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, setting a major legal precedent for freedom of speech. Beginning in the 1930s, the company moved into publishing for children, and over the years has become a leader in the field. Random House entered reference publishing in 1947 with the highly successful American College Dictionary, which was followed in 1966 by the equally successful unabridged Random House Dictionary of the English Language. It continues to publish numerous reference works, including the Random House Webster's College Dictionary.
 

 

  In 1960, Random House acquired the distinguished American publishing house of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and, a year later, Pantheon Books, which had been established in New York by European editors to publish works from abroad. Both were assured complete editorial independence--a policy which continues in all parts of the company to this day.
 

 

  Random House, Inc. was itself acquired in 1965 by the major media corporation, RCA. The publisher's expansion continued with the acquisition in 1973 of Ballantine Books, whose mass market paperback publishing program enabled Random House to reach a much broader and more diverse readership.
 

 

  In 1980, Random House was acquired by Advance Publications, Inc., a privately held company. There followed a period of significant growth, including the acquisition of the paperback publisher Fawcett Books in 1982; the creation of Villard Books, a new hardcover imprint, in 1983; the acquisition of Times Books from The New York Times Company in 1984; and Fodor's Travel Guides, acquired in 1986.
 

 

  In 1988, Random House again grew dramatically with the acquisition of the Crown Publishing Group, whose imprints included Crown; Clarkson Potter, Inc.; Harmony Books; and the Outlet Book Company, a major publisher of low-priced books now known as Random House Value Publishing.
 

 

  Having established Random House of Canada in 1944, Random House significantly expanded its international presence in 1987 to the United Kingdom with the acquisition of the British publishing group, Chatto, Virago, Bodley Head & Jonathan Cape, Ltd. The London operation was further expanded with the acquisition of Century Hutchinson Ltd. in 1989, and the trade division of Reed Books in 1997. Both the Canadian and UK operations grew substantially in 1998 with the acquisition of Random House, Inc. by Bertelsmann AG. Bertelsmann's Doubleday Canada and Bantam Books Canada merged with Random House of Canada, whose imprints also include Random House Canada, Knopf Canada, Vintage Canada, and Ballantine Canada. Transworld UK, Bertelsmann's UK operation, joined Random House UK, with subsidiaries in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
 

 

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