Random House To Publish Nickelodeon Books
SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, Team Umizoomi, and Bubble Guppies are all headed to Random House Children’s Books next year.
Random House revealed today that they will be the primary book publisher of Nickelodeon properties beginning in the spring of 2013. EIC of licensed publishing Chris Angelilli will oversee the titles.
Here’s more from the release: “The publishing program with Nickelodeon will expand to include a variety of new formats, including hardcover and paperback picture books, storybooks, leveled readers, chapter books, Junior Novels, and board books. Random House will continue publishing the coloring and activity books and Little Golden Book titles published since 2000 and 2009, respectively.”

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Random House Children’s Books will team up with Sesame Workshop for a new series of digital books focused on “early learning and reading readiness.” They will publish more than 20 classic Sesame Street books in digital formats, beginning today with Elmo Says Achoo! and Elmo’s Breakfast Bingo.
Random House Children’s Books has partnered with literacy organization First Book to give underprivileged children access to books.
Politico and Random House are gearing up for election season with the new Politico Bookshelf — an online destination designed specifically for books about politics.
Random House’s revenues for the first half of 2011 earlier were €787 million, down slightly from the company’s revenues in 2010 for the same period which hit €791 million, according to Bertelsmann, the group that owns the publisher. The earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) was €69 million, up from €40 million. The publisher attributed this favorable EBIT to strong U.S. performance.
Triumph Books publisher Mitch Rogatz has teamed up with a private investor to re-acquire the sports publisher from Random House.
Writer Tao Lin has landed a $50,000 deal with Vintage Books for his novel, Taipei, Taiwan. According to
Both Mauro DiPreta and Amanda Patten have joined the Crown Publishing Group at Random House.
Random House has teamed up with Politico to create a series of four instant eBooks about the 2012 presidential election. The series (currently untitled) will only be available in digital format.





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