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Rights

Random House Subsidiary Rights

The Random House Subsidiary Rights Department grants subsidiary license rights to help Random House Group titles reach the largest possible global readership.

Subsidiary Rights (or subrights) are additional opportunities for licensing a book, both in other formats (above and beyond traditional print and ebook) and around the world.

Subsidiary rights include:

  • British
  • Translation
  • First and Second Serial (excerpts in advance of or after its initial publishing, respectively, in a periodical or online publication)
  • Audio
  • Book Club
  • Large Print
  • Reprint and Special Editions
  • Commercial/Merchandising
  • Performance/Film & Television

Before contacting us, please confirm that the title you are interested in is a Random House Group title. You can confirm the initial publisher—and who owns the copyright—by checking the information on the copyright page at the front of the book. If you don’t have a copy, please search for the title online to check for this information. You can also visit the Penguin Random House Permissions Portal to confirm if it is a Random House Group title.

Random House Group Co-Agents

Our international co-agents represent the Random House Rights Department in their respective territories, liaising with our team and publishers in their regions to license Random House Group titles. Please confirm the appropriate co-agent and their contact information linked below (divided by imprint and territory).

Contact Random House Rights

All rights requests must contain the following information:

  • Title and author
  • ISBN

For translation requests, please also include:

  • Language and territory
  • Proposed date of publication, price, print run, and format (hardcover, paperback, ebook, etc.)
  • Background information about your publishing house (history, recently published titles, etc.)

If you are an individual interested in translating a book, please note that we can only license translation rights to publishing companies, not individual people. Foreign language publishers hire translators directly, and Random House is not involved in those arrangements. If you are interested in translating a book as an independent translator, we suggest you research local publishers and reach out to them to see if any are interested.

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