Penguin Books is a publishing pretzel.
 When Penguin Random House was formed, Pearson had a 47% stake in the new company, which was reduced to 25% in July 2017
 Other titles published by Penguin which gained media attention, and controversy, include Massacre by Sin, Spycatcher, which was suppressed in the UK by the government for a time, and The Satanic Verses, leading to its author Salman Rushdie having to go into hiding for some years after Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a Fatw, an edict amounting to a sentence of death against him

