Barbara Walters's new memoir Audition has sold over 250,000 copies in its first week, making it one of the strongest nonfiction hardcover debuts in recent years and putting Walters in league with other blockbuster authors such as Bill Clinton and Bob Woodward.
Having completed its initial year, the Random House, Inc. Green Committee presents a review of its activities over the past twelve months and sets a first-draft agenda for the year ahead.
On Wednesday, April 9, the Random House Publishing Group division of Random House, Inc. hosted and helped organize "The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer" at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Random House published Mr. Mailer continuously for the past twenty-four years. The many speakers at the tribute included Joan Didion, Don Delillo, William Kennedy, Sean Penn, Mr. Mailer's nine children, and Gina Centrello and David Ebershoff, his publisher and editor respectively.
Now in theaters: Horton Hears a Who, Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?, and The Ruins.
Random House, Inc. wishes Maya Angelou a happy 80th birthday.
In memoriam: Arthur C. Clarke.
In September 2008, Vintage Español will publish La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Oscar Wao, the Spanish language edition of Junot Diaz's first novel.
The Great Man by Kate Christensen wins the 2008 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Random House, Inc. is selected as one of six company case studies in "improving environment performance" within the heralded research report on environmental responsibility by the independent and highly respected Book Industry Study Group, co-commissioned with Green Press Initiative, which was released this morning.
Random House, Inc. acquires the Monacelli Press publishing house.
Random House Publishing Group to offer individual chapters for sale online.
Random House, Inc. congratulates its 2008 Grammy® winners: The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream written and read by Barack Obama, winner for Best Spoken Word Album, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows written by J.K. Rowling and read by Jim Dale, winner for Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
Random House, Inc. congratulates its 2008 Edgar Award nominees: Blood of Paradise by David Corbett; Triumph of the Thriller by Patrick Anderson; Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney; and Blood Brothers by S. A. Harazin; Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen.
The title of the third volume of Christopher Paolini's #1 bestselling Inheritance cycle, its record-breaking initial printing, new September on-sale date are announced and its jacket art unveiled this morning by Random House Children's Books. Read more.
Random House, Inc. congratulates its 2007 National Book Critics Circle nominees: In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar; Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington; Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner; Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat; Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya; Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee; Ralph Ellison by Arnold Rampersad; The Life Of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John Richardson; and Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints by Joan Acocella.
On June 3, 2008, Random House will publish Salman Rushdie's new novel, The Enchantress of Florence, a dazzling historical novel set in Renaissance Florence and the court of the Great Mughal Empire.
Sylvan Learning, Inc. and Random House, Inc. announce new book publishing partnership: Sylvan Learning Books.
Updated "A Million Little Pieces" Consumer Refund Information
Over 10,000 Random House, Inc. audiobooks are now available for sampling in Insight, the digital search & browsing service.
Insight, newly launched digital search & browsing service, to offer 5,000-plus Random House, Inc. U.S. titles.
New Random House, Inc. environmental initiative: tenfold increase in use of recycled paper by 2010.
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