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RANDOM HOUSE, US Random House is a Publishing house based in New York City . It was founded in 1927 by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer , two years after they had acquired the Modern Library Imprint . 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. German media conglomerate Bertelsmann acquired it amid controversy in 1998. {Link without Title} Its American imprints currently 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, the Random House Diversified Publishing Group, the Random House Information Group, the Random House Ballantine Publishing Group , and Random House Ventures. Del Rey Manga publishes English Manga in North America . 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 Webster's Unabridged '' and '' Random House Webster's College '' dictionaries, probably the main competitors for Merriam-Webster reference titles. The distinguished 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. Random House has been the distributor for Shambhala Publications since 1974 . Within the last year, they have begun distributing Rizzoli Books, National Geographic Books, Steerforth Press, Wizards of the Coast, Vertical Books, Welcome Books, Taunton Press, New York Review of Books and Rugged Land. The publisher's main U.S. office is located at 1745 Broadway in Manhattan , in a 684-foot tower completed in 2003 and spanning the entire west side of the block between West 55th Street and west 56th. Its lobby showcases floor-to-ceiling glassed-in bookcases filled with books published by the company's many imprints. RANDOM HOUSE, UK In the and Random House Children's Books. Its imprints include Jonathan Cape , Harvill Secker, Chatto And Windus , Vintage together with Vintage Classics , Pimlico, Yellow Jersey, Century, Willian Heinemann, Hutchinson, Arrow, Random House Audio Books, Random House Business Books, Ebury Press , Vermilion , Rider , Bantam Press, Doubleday, Corgi, Black Swan, Fodor, Time Out , WaterBrook Press and Mainstream. It also owns Tanoshimi , which publishes English Manga in the United Kingdom and Ireland . One imprint in the Random House Children's Books division is Dell Laurel-Leaf Books, which publishes Young Adult novels. The name is a carryover from Dell Publishing , formerly a separate company from Random House. Other subsidiaries include Mandarin Publishing, which focuses on titles in Speculative Fiction . The UK Random House offices are based in Pimlico and Ealing , both in London. IMPRINTS
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