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Random House is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It is part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann and global education and publishing company Pearson PLC. Random House also has an entertainment production arm for film and television, Random House Studio; one release in 2011 was ''One Day''. The company also creates story content for media including video games, social networks on the web, and mobile platforms. It is one of the largest English-language publishers, formerly known as the "Big 6", now known as the "Big Five". Bertelsmann owns 53% of the joint venture. ==History== Random House was founded in 1927 by Americans Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two years after they acquired the Modern Library imprint from publisher Horace Liveright, which reprints classic works of literature. Cerf is quoted as saying, "We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random," which suggested the name Random House.〔(C250.columbia.edu ), Bennet Alfred Cerf Biography〕 Its American divisions currently include the Crown Publishing Group, the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, the Random House Publishing Group, and Random House Children's Books. In October 1959, Random House went public at $11.25 a share. This move drew other publishing companies such as Simon & Schuster to later go public. Random House entered reference publishing in 1947 with the ''American College Dictionary'', which was followed in 1966 by its first unabridged dictionary. Today it publishes the ''Random House Dictionary of the English Language'' and ''Random House Webster's College'' dictionaries, probably the main competitors for Merriam-Webster reference titles. American publishers Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. and Pantheon Books were acquired by Random House in 1960 and 1961, respectively; works continue to be published under these imprints with editorial independence, such as Everyman's Library, a series of classical literature reprints. In 1965 RCA bought Random House as part of a diversification strategy and later sold Random House to Advance Publications in 1980.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bobsamerica.com/rca-history.html )〕 In 1988, McGraw-Hill Education acquired the Schools and Colleges division of Random House Inc.'' In 1998, Bertelsmann AG bought Random House and it soon went global.〔Random House Company History, from (Fundinguniverse.com ). Accessed April 13, 2008.〕 In October 2012, Bertelsmann entered into talks with rival conglomerate Pearson plc, over the possibility of combining their respective publishing companies, Random House and Penguin, and the merge completed on 1 July 2013. Random House has been the distributor for Shambhala Publications since 1974. They also currently distribute Rizzoli Books, National Geographic Books, Steerforth Press, Wizards of the Coast, Vertical Inc., Welcome Books, ''The New York Review of Books'', Titan Books, Other Press, Kodansha Manga, Hatherleigh Press, North Atlantic Books, Monacelli Press Books, Sasquatch Books, and DC Comics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Random House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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