Vendor Services

Welcome to Vendor Services.
Random House, Inc. provides a variety of services and documentation to the vendors we work with to create and sell our books.

Book Binders Kit
These booklets provide information about how to pack, label and ship products to us.

Act SMART File Validation
This is a tool for vendors who are preparing book production files to send back to RHI for our SMART Archive system. This simple java-based tool will allow you to validate that the filenaming and organization of the files is correct prior to submitting the job to RHI production staff.

• Documentation on how to use this tool.

SMART Archive Naming Conventions
Please review these documents before naming your files for the SMART archive.

• USFile Naming Map
• USFile Naming Examples
• ChildrensFile Naming Map
• eBookFile Naming Map
• LivingLanguage Addendum
• CommonNaming Errors

To view the PDF files, you will need Acrobat Reader. Click here to download.

Data Feed Options
Find out about the various data feeds that Random House makes available to our partners.

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