Conglomerates & Information/Mass Media Companies

Advance Publications (Newhouse)

• Random House (1980-1998)

Bertelsmann

• Random House (1998-2013)

• Penguin Random House (2013-)

Cambridge Information Group

• R. R. Bowker Co. (2001-)

CBS

C.I.T. Financial

• Grosset & Dunlap, including Bantam and Transworld (acquisition called off in November 1967)

Dun & Bradstreet

General Cinema

• Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1991-2001)

Gulf+Western (-1989) / Paramount Communications (1989-1994)

IFI

International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT)

Litton Industries

• Van Nostrand (1968-1981)

Matsushita Electric Industrial Company

MCA

• Berkley Books

• Putnam's

• Pyramid/Jove Books

• Coward, McCann

British Printing and Communication (1982-1987) / Maxwell Communications (1987-1991)

• Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (failed takeover bid in 1987)

• Macmillan, Inc.

Hearst

• William Morrow Company

International Thomson

Meredith Corporation

News Corporation / News Corp

• William Collins, Sons

• Harper & Row (1987-)

RCA

• Random House (1965-1980)

Reed International (1970-1992) / Reed Elsevier (1992-2015) / RELX (2015-)

• Harcourt, Inc. (2001-2007)

• R. R. Bowker Co. (1985-2001)

Times-Mirror

• New American Library (1960-1983)

Viacom

• Simon & Schuster

ViacomCBS (2019-2022) / Paramount Global (2022-)

• Simon & Schuster

Vivendi

• Houghton Mifflin (2001-2002)

Xerox

• R. R. Bowker Co. (1967-1985)