The Latest Breaking News from Penguin Random House

An unusual Justice Department strategy sank the merger of two publishing titans. Here are the real-world effects

Spare, which hits store shelves next year, already had its price cut in half ahead of its release, but now you can get your virtual hands on it for absolutely nothing thanks to Black Friday sales

The week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

Penguin owner Bertelsmann will not appeal US judge’s ruling that merger would be illegal because it would hit authors’ pay

Plus: A flawed study on marijuana risks, the collapsing publishing-house merger, and more...

The week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

Kudos to Penguin Random House for sticking to its plan to publish a book by Justice Amy Coney Barrett despite a petition from hundreds of people who work in publishing arguing that the company should cancel the volume due to the author’s vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.

The week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

A federal judge has laid out a data-laden case for why she blocked Penguin Random House’s proposed purchase of Simon & Schuster

The Wall St. J. (Jeffrey Trachtenberg) wrote on Oct. 31 (but I somehow missed it): The book is being published by the Sentinel imprint of Bertelsmann SE's Penguin Random House. "We remain fully committed to publishing authors who, like Justice Barrett, substantively shape today's most important conversations," said Adrian Zackheim,…

Omid Scobie, an author and friend of Meghan Markle, has claimed that Prince Harry's upcoming memoir Spare was completed five months before the Queen's death and its controversial title was picked by the prince himself