Our mission is to ignite a universal passion for reading by creating books for everyone. We believe that books, and the stories and ideas they hold, have the unique capacity to connect us, change us, and carry us toward a better future for generations to come.
Penguin Random House, the world’s largest trade book publisher, employs more than 11,000 people globally. With more than 300 imprints and brands on six continents, Penguin Random House comprises adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction print and digital English- German- and Spanish-language trade book publishing businesses in more than 20 countries worldwide.
With over 16,000 new titles, and more than 700 million print, audio and eBooks sold annually, Penguin Random House’s publishing lists include more than 80 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world’s most widely read authors.
Penguin Random House was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of an agreement between Bertelsmann and Pearson to merge their respective trade publishing companies. As of April 1, 2020, Bertelsmann is full owner of the company.
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CreateSpace, an Amazon company, is the leading provider of independent publishing tools that enable authors, filmmakers and musicians to produce, polish, publish and distribute their work to customers around the world. CreateSpace offers industry-leading royalty rates, broad distribution to thousands of sales channels, an engaged peer community and complete creative control while content creators continue to own the rights to their work. CreateSpace is also a leader in manufacture on-demand for Books, CDs and DVDs, maintaining "in-stock" availability for titles without inventory risk.
Lulu is a global publishing technology company for businesses built on books.
We provide the infrastructure that helps creators, brands, and publishers sell books worldwide through direct ecommerce integrations, API-driven automation, on-demand production, and global fulfillment.
Our platform enables automated, scalable book production and fulfillment without inventory risk, offset minimums, warehousing, or manual logistics. The result is faster time to market, reduced waste, expanded margins, and ownership of the customer journey.
Lulu is built for individual creators monetizing ideas, businesses scaling direct-to-consumer book sales, and enterprises powering complex publishing operations. We support every step of the lifecycle:
• Create and upload with powerful, flexible tools
• Automate secure publishing workflows through API integrations
• Produce premium, on-demand books with intelligent global routing
• Deliver direct to customers in 200+ countries and territories
• Access to data and analytics for forecasting and sales visibility
As a certified B Corp, we are committed to sustainable practices, ethical business standards, and community empowerment.
We don’t just print books. We power the infrastructure behind modern publishing.