Sales for Janet Evanovich, one of the world’s biggest-selling novelists, more than lived up to the title of her new book, Smokin’ Seventeen. Combined first-day sales of print, audio, and digital reached 218,000 books sold, it was announced by Gina Centrello, President and Publisher of The Random House Publishing Group, whose Bantam Books imprint published the book on Tuesday, June 21. “Even by the high standards Janet has set as one of the bestselling authors of our time, her first-day sales for Smokin’ Seventeen have exceeded all of our expectations,” said Centrello.
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Friday, June 24th, 2011Téa Obreht wins the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for THE TIGER’S WIFE
Thursday, June 9th, 2011Congratulations to Téa Obreht for winning the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction for The Tiger’s Wife. At the age of twenty-five, she’s the youngest author to do so in the history of the prize. Read more here.
Congratulations to Random House’s Audie Winners!
Wednesday, May 25th, 2011Congratulations to Random House’s Audie Winners! The Best Nonfiction award went to The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, read by Cassandra Campbell with Bahni Turpin, produced by Kelly Gildea and Dan Musselman. The Best Thriller/Suspense award went to The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson, read by Simon Vance, produced by Aaron Blank and Dan Musselman.
Phyllis Grann, one of our industry’s most celebrated figures, has decided to retire.
Monday, May 23rd, 2011Phyllis Grann, one of our industry’s most celebrated figures, has decided to retire. Read the full press release here.
Vintage Books congratulates Philip Roth on winning the Man Booker International Prize 2011.
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011Vintage Books congratulates Philip Roth on winning the Man Booker International Prize 2011. The Prize is awarded once every two years for an achievement in fiction on the world stage. On awarding Roth the Prize today, the committee said, “For more than 50 years Philip Roth’s books have stimulated, provoked, and amused an enormous, and still expanding, audience. His imagination has not only recast our idea of Jewish identity, it has also reanimated fiction, and not just American fiction, generally. His career is remarkable in that he starts at such a high level, and keeps getting better. In his fifties and sixties, when most novelists are in decline, he wrote a string of novels of the highest, enduring quality. Indeed, his most recent, Nemesis (2010), is as fresh, memorable, and alive with feeling as anything he has written. His is an astonishing achievement.” Vintage Books publishes all thirty-one of Roth’s books, from the first, Goodbye, Columbus (1959) to the most recent, Nemesis (2010).
Smashing Ideas Acquisition
Thursday, May 5th, 2011Bertelsmann acquires digital media agency Smashing Ideas for Random House, Inc. Read the full press release here.
The Los Angeles Times Book Awards
Monday, May 2nd, 2011Congratulations to our LA Times Book Award winners. For Biography, Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand; for Fiction, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; for History, The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers.
Spiritual authority and bestselling author Deepak Chopra joins forces with Crown Publishing Group to launch new imprint, Deepak Chopra Books
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011Spiritual authority and bestselling author Deepak Chopra joins forces with Crown Publishing Group to launch new imprint, Deepak Chopra Books. Read more here.
Jennifer Egan Pulitzer Prize
Monday, April 18th, 2011Congratulations to Jennifer Egan, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad. Her novel is now a piece of Pulitzer Prize history and achievement unrivalled in book publishing: since 1919, books published by imprints now part of Random House have been honored in the five literary Pulitzer categories 103 times. View the complete list of Random House, Inc. Pulitzer winners.
The Crown Publishing Group and our U.K. sister publishing house Chatto & Windus announced today the creation of a fiction print- and digital-edition joint imprint: Hogarth, to debut summer 2012
Monday, April 11th, 2011The Crown Publishing Group and our U.K. sister publishing house Chatto & Windus announced today the creation of a fiction print- and digital-edition joint imprint: Hogarth, to debut summer 2012. Read more here.
