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Superstar gamer and YouTube titan Tyler “Ninja” Blevins is coming to a bookshelf near you. Two Random House imprints, Clarkson Potter and Ten Speed Press, will take the digital influencer to the printed page with three releases by year’s end. Clarkson Potter will release the Ninja: Get Good gamer guide and the Ninja No…

EXCLUSIVE Ballantine Books has acquired world English rights to Into The Dark, a book that the publisher says will, for the first time, chronicle last summer’s rescue of the Wild Boars soccer team from a flooded Thai cave in the actual words of everyone directly involved. Susanna Porter is Ballantine’s acquiring…

EXCLUSIVE: Penguin Random House will partner with Netflix on a worldwide publishing deal for books based on the critically acclaimed Netflix original series Stranger Things, Deadline has learned. The first two titles, set for a release this fall, will be a behind-the-scences companion book and a hardcover gift book…

Penguin Random House has promoted senior exec Nina von Moltke to the newly created role of President, Director of Strategic Development, Penguin Random House U.S. The promotion was among several staffing changes announced today by Madeline McIntosh, CEO, Penguin Random House U.S. Von Moltke, who will continue…

Madeline McIntosh was been named CEO of Penguin Random House U.S today, with Allison Dobson succeeding McIntosh as President, Penguin Publishing Group. The announcement was made by Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House worldwide, who previously oversaw the U.S. company in addition to his global role since…

Michelle Obama’s memoir will be titled Becoming and is set for a November release by the Crown Publishing Group. The news was released via Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, the publisher for the Crown imprint. It was also tweeted by the former first lady. "Writing Becoming has been a deeply personal…

Serial Box, a subscription-based startup that offers serialized stories in both written and audio form, has announced a seed investment round of $1.65 million. The round was led by Boat Rocker Media, whose recent investments include CAA Creative Labs, The Outline, MarcoPolo Learning and the acquisition of Fremantle…

The British Film Institute has launched a Commission on UK Independent Film to look at the health of the UK indie film business with a plan to make evidence-based recommendations on what should be done to improve conditions for its long-term future, in particular for stronger growth at home and internationally…

Yes they can. A month-plus after moving out of the White House, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have some time on their hands and have landed new gigs: authors. Penguin Random House said today that it has acquired world publication rights for separate memoirs by the former first couple. No publication date was…

FremantleMedia North America has bought Penguin Random House’s Random House Studio and teamed with China’s Meridian Entertainment to produce movies and TV shows based on works by the publishers’ authors. FMNA will handle TV productions while Meridian picks up theatrical. Random House Studio projects currently in the…

Few actors in recent memory have put themselves out there as brazenly, not to say bravely, as Jeffrey Tambor. Over the course of three ground-breaking television series — HBO's The Larry Sanders Show, Fox Television's Arrested Development and Amazon's Golden Globe Award-winning Transparent — Tambor has defied any…

If you’re not on commission or the bonus track at Bertelsmann’s toddling Penguin Random House megapublisher, there’ll be a nice tip for you come April 17: An extra $750 in your paycheck, compliments of CEO Markus Dohle. “We are all proud of the positive impact inherent in what we do at Penguin Random House by…