The amended page is sort of like Penguin Random House’s version of a robots.txt file, which websites will sometimes use to ask AI companies and others not to scrape their content.

Penguin Random House’s global CEO, Markus Dohle, had promised that imprints of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster would still be permitted to bid against each other for books.

Penguin Random House is by far the largest of the five major publishers in the United States, with about 100 imprints that collectively publish more than 2,000 new titles a year.

The longtime CEO of Penguin Random House, ... The Penguin logo is visible on the spines of books displayed on a shelf at Book Passage Nov. 2, 2021, in Corte Madera, Calif. ...