The Latest Breaking News from Penguin

ReadingRoom literary editor Steve Braunias celebrates the best things in New Zealand writing this year

The CEO of Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade publisher, is stepping down

Penguin owner Bertelsmann will not appeal US judge’s ruling that merger would be illegal because it would hit authors’ pay

Flaubert and Zola rub shoulders with an author of three-line novellas in an eclectic, often steamy collection charting the history of the French short story

MONTREAL — The Penguins earned five of six points on a road trip where they needed to bounce back, but good luck singing the virtues of that. With the lead at several points during the third period Saturday, the Penguins surely wanted point No. 6 to complete a perfect trip.

A greedy London landlord threatens the centuries-old haunt frequented by Dickens and Thackeray

A federal judge has laid out a data-laden case for why she blocked Penguin Random House’s proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster

The Wall St. J. (Jeffrey Trachtenberg) wrote on Oct. 31 (but I somehow missed it): The book is being published by the Sentinel imprint of Bertelsmann SE's Penguin Random House. "We remain fully committed to publishing authors who, like Justice Barrett, substantively shape today's most important conversations," said Adrian Zackheim,…

CEOs gave bizarre testimony. Stephen King took the stand. Simon & Schuster and Penguin will remain separate

A federal judge blocked Penguin Random House's proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster, saying that the joining of two of the world's biggest publishers could "lessen competition."

A federal judge has blocked Penguin Random House’s attempt to swallow its smaller rival, Simon & Schuster, dealing a blow to the world’s largest book publisher’s attempt to become an even bigger giant.