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Penguin Random House (PRH) is a company formed by the merger of book publishers Random House (owned by German media conglomerate Bertelsmann), and Penguin Group (owned by British publishing company Pearson PLC).

Penguin Random House markets itself as "the world's first truly global trade book" publisher.

It was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of a £2.4 billion merger between Bertelsmann and Pearson to combine their respective trade publishing companies, Random House and Penguin Group, with the parent companies owning 53% and 47%, respectively.

Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.

In some cases, authors may be their own publishers, meaning originators and developers of content also provide media to deliver and display the content for the same.

Also, the word publisher can refer to the individual who leads a publishing company or an imprint or to a person who owns/heads a magazine.

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler.

It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts.

In genre fiction anthology is used to categorize collections of shorter works such as short stories and short novels, usually collected into a single volume for publication.

An author is narrowly defined as the originator of any written work and can thus also be described as a writer (with any distinction primarily being an implication that an author is a writer of one or more major works, such as books or plays).

More broadly defined, an author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created.

The more specific phrase published author refers to an author (especially but not necessarily of books) whose work has been independently accepted for publication by a reputable publisher, versus a self-publishing author or an unpublished one.