One of the largest book publisher, what company took it's name from the founders desire to publish a few arbitrary books on the side?
Random House Random House Random House is an American book publisher and the largest general-interest paperback publisher in the world. As of 2013, it is part of Penguin Random House, which is jointly owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann and British global education and publishing company Pearson PLC. Random House was founded in 1925 by Americans Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two years after they acquired the Modern Library imprint from publisher Horace Liveright, which reprints classic works of literature. Cerf is quoted as saying, "We just said we were going to publish a few books on the side at random," which
The Wooster Book Company Rehearse", collects several O. Henry Prize stories. The Wooster Book Company also publishes books by Scott Russell Sanders, a winner of the Lannan Foundation literary award, and by Wes Jackson, president of the Land Institute. The publishing company is directly affiliated with the bookstore of the same name. The Wooster Book Company was established in September 1992 as an independent bookstore. It now occupies with over 40,000 titles. In 2000, The Wooster Book Company took over the sponsorship and administration of the Buckeye Book Fair, Ohio’s largest literary event. The Book Fair is open to the public, with approximately one