Random House is the largest English-speaking publisher in the world. The publisher achieved this with its acquisition by Bertelsmann AG in 1998, which brought together the imprints of the former Random House, with those of the former Bantam Doubleday Dell. Random House publishing includes 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. The groups publish fiction and nonfiction, both original and reprints, by some of the foremost and most popular writers. Publication encompasses 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. Random House is global, with subsidiaries and