Their aims include more equitable pay and salaries, a commitment to diversity and union security rights. The workers, from across the publisher’s departments, have been bargaining for a union contract since December of last year. In July of 2022, employees of HarperCollins in New York City participated in a one-day strike. The merger was valued at a whopping $2.175 billion. In November 2021, The New York Times reported that Penguin Random House planned to purchase Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS. But it seems the company’s desire to gobble up the competition hasn’t faded. The merging of two of the world’s largest publishers has to count for something, after all. Penguin Random House’s formation in 2013 signaled a time of huge change in the publishing industry. Photo Courtesy: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Penguin Random House The Penguin logo is visible on the spines of books displayed on a shelf at Book Passage on Novemin Corte Madera, California.
Martin’s Press, on the other hand, is a publishing division that focuses on trade fiction - books marketed for a general readership - as well as nonfiction titles.
Swoon Reads, for example, publishes teen romance, while Tor focuses on fantasy and science fiction novels.
MacMillan’s imprints do a great job of illustrating the way imprints target certain demographics and genres.
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