Penguin Random House, Inc. assumed its current ownership 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 adult publishing groups are the Crown Publishing Group, the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, and the Random House Publishing Group. The Random House Children's Books division is the world's largest publisher of books for young readers.

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.

Penguin 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 Penguin Random House have won an unrivalled number of Nobel and Pulitzer Prizes.

These fine publishers are either imprints of Random House or are Distributed by Random House:

Adult Publishers: Archie Comics, Beacon Press, Crown, DC Comics, Egmont, Hatherleigh Press, Knopf Doubleday, Kodansha, Kuperard, Mark Batty, Meville House, Monacelli Press,  New York Review Books, North Atlantic, Osprey, Other Press, Quirk, RH Audio, RH Canada, RH Information Group, RH Publishing Group, Rizzoli, Seven Stories, Shambhala, Smithsonian, Soho Press, Steerforth Press, Ten Speed Press, Titan Books, Tundra, Vertical, Welcome Books and Wizards of the Coast.

Children's Publishers: Blue Apple, Candlewick Press, Little Golden Books, and RH Children's Books