兰登书屋编辑

德国媒体集团贝塔斯曼旗下的一家出版社

兰登书屋是德国媒体集团贝塔斯曼（Bertelsmann AG）旗下的一家出版社，总部设在美国纽约市。书屋于1927年成立，创始人是Bennett Cerf和Donald Klopfer，在1998年时为贝塔斯曼收购。

2016年7月19日，亚太未来影视（北京）有限公司（简称“亚太未来”，英文名Meridian Entertainment）和FrementleMedia北美（简称FMNA）在中美两地同时宣布结成重要战略合作伙伴，共同运营全球第一大出版集团企鹅兰登书屋旗下的兰登书屋制片厂。

兰登书屋，美国出版公司，在整个20世纪的世界图书界中扮演着举足轻重的角色。这并不仅仅因为它是全世界最大的出版集团，更是因为它在现代西方文化发展中起到了潜移默化的引领作用。而兰登书屋的创始人――犹太人贝内特·瑟夫又是兰登书屋不折不扣的引领者。

兰登书屋展台

兰登书屋与中国出版界一直保持着紧密合作。2007年10月，兰登书屋和北京出版社开发的《北京2008奥运指南》在法兰克福书展亮相。该书将读者锁定在2008年北京奥运会的外籍旅游观光人员，是以奥运为主题的图书，将在美国和中国以两种不同的版本出版。在内容方面，该书主要利用的是兰登书屋旅游出版社的资源，邀请在北京生活过的外国人写关于北京的文化，比如京剧等。该书以实用性为主，从旅游者的角度用奥运5色将北京划分为5个区，便于旅游观光者使用。

兰登书屋的大众出版商“性质”决定了其通过版权代理公司运作的版权贸易方式。版权贸易方面，由于西方图书的版权通常都分散在各个出版品牌旗下的出版社，各个品牌都有各自的版权代理机构，所以，兰登书屋出版公司几乎所有的版权贸易都通过版权代理来操作，比如安德鲁·纳伯格联合国际有限公司、博达版权代理公司、大苹果版权代理公司、中华版权代理总公司等。

数字化

兰登书屋出版的工具书

兰登书屋是德国贝塔斯曼集团的一家分公司，年出新书10000种，年销售额达20亿美元。

走进曼哈顿的兰登书屋，就会感觉到阵阵图书油墨香。但不要被这一假象所迷惑。事实是，这个有着80年历史的图书出版公司，正将走出纸浆和油墨时代，向着数字化年代迈进。

不愿意让google公司、雅虎公司和微软公司主宰虚拟网络空间，世界最大的商业出版公司兰登书屋在出版商中先行一步了。11月初，兰登书屋首先公开了向网络读者提供基于每页次浏览计价的服务。兰登书屋将至少收取每页次4美分的费用，小说和非小说口述图书的收入一半归作者所有，其他诸如烹调类图书，视情况收取费用。兰登书屋通过上传低分辨率的文本来阻止复制行为。

而且，兰登书屋将成立一个影视部门，与福克斯影业公司合作。将其图书改编成电影。公司之所以要对这一领域开拓，全在于世界变化太快，公司必须适应形势的变化。新的一代，也许在成长过程中，没有太多与图书的联系。他们仅仅是通过屏幕阅读了许多原先必须在书本上才能读到的东西。所以，兰登必须利用一切手段，将图书转化成各种载体。将相关教育内容转化成手机阅读内容，也就是兰登书屋的一种尝试。

至于与美国阅读公司合作搞的巡回于教室间的流动图书馆，以及和Audible公司合作搞的可下载CD服务等，都是兰登书屋作出的各种努力。

兰登书屋的每页次浏览计价也许对习惯于免费阅读的读者来说是昂贵的，但这种服务已经存在了一年。只是，这种服务只被一些作者、书商、和其他出版商所采用。正是google公司的大规模图书馆藏书扫描计划，使得出版商决定提前采用这种模式。吸取音乐行业对盗版所采取的法律制裁经验，兰登书屋与其他出版公司也对google公司提出控告，反对google公司将大量图书扫描后免费向网上读者提供阅读。虽然google公司申明这是法律上允许的合理使用，但还是受到拥有8000多名会员的美国作家协会的控告。

在2005年的时候，来讨论兰登书屋走向数字化的行为是否为决裂于传统图书出版，尚且为时过早。需要说明的是，零售商巴诺对于兰登书屋的这一数字化策略，不作任何评论。而且，数字化后而获得的销售额，也无法解决图书业的最大问题──旧书销售。作者和出版公司总无法获得旧书销售的任何好处。而旧书年销售额，在美国已经达到22亿美元之多。

企业合并

2012年10月29日，贝塔斯曼与英国的培生集团（Pearson plc）达成一纸协议，兰登书屋将与培生集团旗下的企鹅出版集团合并，共组成新的合资企业（Joint venture）——企鹅兰登书屋（Penguin Random House）。贝塔斯曼将拥有此合资公司53%的股权，培生集团则持股47%，但除此之外贝塔斯曼仍会继续拥有其德国出版贸易业务兰登书屋出版集团（Verlagsgruppe Random House）全部的掌控权，而培生集团仍会以“企鹅”的品牌经营其教育书籍市场。合并后的企鹅兰登书屋预计将拥有全球消费出版市场26%的占有率，此协议在2013年下半、相关国家的金融主管机关核准之后，实际生效。

2022年10月31日，美国哥伦比亚特区联邦地区法院叫停企鹅兰登书屋收购西蒙-舒斯特公司要约，支持原告联邦政府司法部意见，认为这两家规模在全球名列前茅的大型出版商一旦合并，可能严重削弱美国畅销书市场的竞争。

创始人介绍

编辑

《我与兰登书屋》封面

美国兰登书屋是世界上最大的出版集团，他的创始人贝内特·瑟夫也是美国出版界划时代的标志性人物，他的回忆录《我与兰登书屋》（彭伦译，人民文学出版社出版）是一部生动反映美国二十世纪出版业风云变幻的经典性著作，同时也是一部充满趣味、幽默、智慧的文学回忆录。在这本书中，作者讲述了他创业经营过程中的无数轶事，其中涉及他与很多作家如尤金·奥尼尔、威廉·福克纳、詹姆斯·乔伊斯等人的交往，也有关于他和美国其他出版家的交往。读者可以从一个成功的出版人的成长轨迹看到一个世界最大出版集团的崛起之路。

主席的话

彼得·奥尔森

兰登书屋

(Peter Olson)

兰登书屋主席

首席执行官

"兰登书屋是全球杰出图书出版商的乐园，他们被赋予创新自由，不受企业内部或外部的干涉，自主、多样和以读者为中心的编辑项目更是锦上添花。兰登书屋还致力于将现有出版成果重新投资于作家的未来发展，支持出版商和分销商的新技术，以及全球员工的事业发展。"

英文介绍

编辑

Random House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It is a division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the foremost media companies in the world.

Random House, Inc. assumed its current form with its acquisition by Bertelsmann in 1998, which brought together the imprints of the former Random House, Inc. with those of the former Bantam Doubleday Dell. Random House, Inc.'s publishing groups include, the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, the Crown Publishing Group, the Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, the Knopf Publishing Group, the Random House Audio Publishing Group, Random House Children's Books, the Random House Diversified Publishing Group, the Random House Information Group, the Random House Publishing Group, and Random House Ventures.

Together, these groups and their imprints publish fiction and nonfiction, both original and reprints, by some of the foremost and most popular writers of our time. They appear in a full range of formats--including hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback, audio, electronic, and digital, for the widest possible readership from adults to young adults and children.

The reach of Random House, Inc. is global, with subsidiaries and affiliated companies in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Through Random House International, the books published by the imprints of Random House, Inc. are sold in virtually every country in the world.

Random House has long been committed to publishing the best literature by writers both in the United States and abroad. In addition to their commercial success, books published by Random House, Inc. hAVe won more major awards than those published by any other company--including the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

The company was founded in l925, when Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer purchased The Modern Library, reprints of classic works of literature, from publisher Horace Liveright. Two years later, in 1927, they decided to broaden their publishing activities, and the Random House colophon made its debut.

Random House first made international news by successfully defending in court the U.S. publication of James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, setting a major legal precedent for freedom of speech. Beginning in the 1930s, the company moved into publishing for children, and over the years has become a leader in the field. Random House entered reference publishing in 1947 with the highly successful American College Dictionary, which was followed in 1966 by the equally successful unabridged Random House Dictionary of the English Language. It continues to publish numerous reference works, including the Random House Webster's College Dictionary.

In 1960, Random House acquired the distinguished American publishing house of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and, a year later, Pantheon Books, which had been established in New York by European editors to publish works from abroad. Both were assured complete editorial independence--a policy which continues in all parts of the company to this day.

Random House, Inc. was itself acquired in 1965 by the major media corporation, RCA. The publisher's expansion continued with the acquisition in 1973 of Ballantine Books, whose mass market paperback publishing program enabled Random House to reach a much broader and more diverse readership.

In 1980, Random House was acquired by Advance Publications, Inc., a privately held company. There followed a period of significant growth, including the acquisition of the paperback publisher Fawcett Books in 1982; the creation of Villard Books, a new hardcover imprint, in 1983; the acquisition of Times Books from The New York Times Company in 1984; and Fodor's Travel Guides, acquired in 1986.

In 1988, Random House again grew dramatically with the acquisition of the Crown Publishing Group, whose imprints included Crown; Clarkson Potter, Inc.; HaRMONy Books; and the Outlet Book Company, a major publisher of low-priced books now known as Random House Value Publishing.

Having established Random House of Canada in 1944, Random House significantly expanded its international presence in 1987 to the United Kingdom with the acquisition of the British publishing group, Chatto, Virago, Bodley Head & Jonathan Cape, Ltd. The London operation was further expanded with the acquisition of Century Hutchinson Ltd. in 1989, and the trade division of Reed Books in 1997. Both the Canadian and UK operations grew substantially in 1998 with the acquisition of Random House, Inc. by Bertelsmann AG. Bertelsmann's Doubleday Canada and Bantam Books Canada merged with Random House of Canada, whose imprints also include Random House Canada, Knopf Canada, Vintage Canada, and Ballantine Canada. Transworld UK, Bertelsmann's UK operation, joined Random House UK, with subsidiaries in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

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