The New Yorker profile subjects, Barry Michels and Dr. Phil Stutz, to author The Tools for Random House English, German, and Spanish publication. Read more here.

Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers reveals title and cover for final book in Christopher Paolini’s #1 bestselling Inheritance Cycle. Read more here.

Congratulations to our authors and their publishers who were voted winners by the group’s membership of a National Book Critics Circle 2010 award, just announced.

Fiction

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Knopf Hardcover & E-book, Anchor Trade Paperback) 

Nonfiction 

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House Hardcover & E-book)

STATEMENT FROM RANDOM HOUSE INC. REGARDING ITS U.S. E-BOOK SALES MODEL
“Random House Inc. is adopting the agency model for e-book sales in the United States effective March 1, 2011. Going forward, Random House will set consumer prices for the e-books we publish, and we will provide retailers with a commission for each sale.” Read the full statement.

The membership of the National Book Critics Circle has voted eight 2010 Random House, Inc. titles as finalists among the five best titles in their publishing categories. Winners for these annual Awards will be announced at the Thursday, March 10 NBCC ceremony in Manhattan.

Fiction

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Knopf Hardcover & E-book, Anchor Trade Paperback)
To the End of the Land by David Grossman (Knopf Hardcover & E-Book, Vintage Trade Paperback)

Nonfiction

Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans (Random House Hardcover & E-book)
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (Spiegel & Grau Hardcover, Trade Paperback, & E-book)
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House Hardcover & E-book)

Biography

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography by Selina Hastings (Random House Hardcover & E-book)
The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers (Knopf Hardcover & E-book)
Simon Wiesenthal: The Lives And Legends by Tom Segev (Doubleday HC & E-book)

We congratulate our nominated authors, publishers, and editors. View the complete list of NBCC Finalists.

Focus Features, our Random House Films co-venture partner, announces that One Day starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess, based on the critically-acclaimed David Nicholls Vintage 2010 bestseller, will be released in theatres on Friday, July 8. The selection of this prime summer play date underscores our shared belief in the Lone Scherfig-directed movie’s commercial potential, as well as its quality.

Random House congratulates Clare Vanderpool, whose Moon over Manifest has been awarded the prestigious Newbery Medal for 2011 by the American Library Association’s Association of Library Service for Children. This is the second straight year a Random House author has been received the Newbery Medal. Random House also congratulates its dozen authors who have received American Library Association awards this year.

December 25 and 26 were the two biggest eBook sales days ever for Random House, Inc., the largest U.S. English-language trade book publisher. Combined eBook sales across e-retailers on December 25th and 26th rose more than 300% over last year’s sales for the same two-day period, which had been Random House’s best two-day eBook sales period ever.

Random House’s top 2010 eBook bestsellers! Decision Points by George W. Bush, The Confession by John Grisham, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, and Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand are among the 2010 top selling eBooks published by Random House, Inc. More information and the full list of top eBook bestsellers can be found here.

In memoriam: Elizabeth Edwards.