Penguin Group

Penguin Group
Parent company	Pearson PLC
Founded	1935
Founder	George Palmer Putnam & John Wiley
Headquarters location	City of Westminster London, England
Imprints	see below
Revenue	£ 1.05billion (2010)
Official website	www.penguin.com

The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher, the second largest in the world, after Random House^[1]. The Penguin Group is the name of the incorporated division of parent Pearson PLC that oversees these publishing operations. Penguin Books has its registered office in City of Westminster, London, England.^[2][3]

Its British division is Penguin Books Ltd. Other separate divisions can be found in the United States, Ireland, New Zealand, India, Australia, Canada, China and South Africa.

History[link]

Penguin Books Ltd. (est. 1935) of the United Kingdom was bought over by Pearson Longman in 1970.

Penguin Group (USA) Inc. was formed in 1996 as a result of the merger between Penguin Books USA and the Putnam Berkley Group. The newly formed company was originally called Penguin Putnam Inc., but in 2003 changed its name to Penguin Group (USA) Inc. to reflect the parent Pearson PLC's grouping of all the Penguin companies worldwide under the supervisory umbrella of Pearson's own Penguin Group division.

The different Penguin companies use many imprints, many of which used to be independent publishers.^[4] Penguin Group (USA) Inc. also operates its own speaker's bureau that books speaking engagements for many of the publisher's authors.

Imprints[link]

Penguin Group imprints include the following:^[5]

See also[link]

• Amazon breakthrough novel award
• Pearson Education
• Pearson PLC
• The Big Six publishing companies:
  • Hachette, Holtzbrinck/Macmillan, HarperCollins, Random House and Simon & Schuster^[6]
• Penguin Group (USA) Inc. v. American Buddha

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• "About Us" on the Penguin Group (USA) website
• Penguin Books (India) website
• Penguin Ireland website
• Penguin Group(NZ) website
• Penguin Group (Canada): Canadian Publishing Programme Announcement
• An open letter to the Penguin Group from David Brock
• Penguin Group (Australia) official website
• Penguin Portfolio official website
• Frederick Warne & Co official website

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A press agent, or flack^[1], is a professional publicist who acts on behalf of his or her client on all matters involving public relations. Press agents are typically employed by public personalities and organizations such as performers and businesses. A press agent will provide information to the media such as upcoming public events, interview opportunities, and promotional dates, and will work with the media in getting in touch with an appropriate client or resource. Press agents are occasionally required to act as "spin doctors" – to put into the best light their clients' public actions. While press agents have traditionally worked with newspapers and television, they may also be conversant with newer media forms such as blogs and podcasts.

References[link]

1. ^ Merriam-Webster: flack

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