{"id":384127,"date":"2025-08-30T03:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384127\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T03:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:34:12","slug":"penguin-random-house-profits-down-12-in-first-half-of-2025-as-rising-costs-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/384127\/","title":{"rendered":"Penguin Random House profits down 12% in first half of 2025 as rising costs bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Penguin-Random-House1.jpg\" alt=\"Penguin Random House \u00a9 Shutterstock\" title=\"Penguin Random House \u00a9 Shutterstock\" class=\"aos-Image aos-W100\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Penguin Random House \u00a9 Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Sales at Penguin Random House were up 2% to \u20ac47m in the first half of 2025 \u201cdespite macroeconomic challenges,\u201d \u201cdriven primarily by the sales success of strong new titles and backlist bestsellers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>You&#8217;ve hit your free article limit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Serious about the book trade?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/subscribe?utm_source=thebookseller&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=anon+user+paywall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Join thousands of industry professionals who never miss a story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sign in or create a free account to unlock 2 articles a month and receive tailored newsletters with the latest from the book trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Want full access? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/subscribe?utm_source=thebookseller&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=anon+user+paywall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Subscribe<\/a> from just \u00a33.65 a week and unlock full access to exclusive interviews, rights deals, industry data and more:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\ud83d\udddeWeekly print copies of The Bookseller magazine\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udcf1Unlimited access to thebookseller.com (single user)\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udcbbThe Bookseller digital edition for desktop, tablet and mobile\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udc8cSubscriber-only newsletters\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udcdaTwice-yearly Buyer\u2019s Guides worth \u00a330\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udca1Discounts on events and conferences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penguin Random House \u00a9 Shutterstock Sales at Penguin Random House were up 2% to \u20ac47m in the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-384127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}