Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Penguin Random House

The 20 closest Book publishing alternatives to Penguin Random House, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 13 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Penguin Random House? The closest matches are Bookshop.org, AbeBooks and Goodreads. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Penguin Random House

Penguin Random House penguinrandomhouse.com

Penguin Random House

Committed to publishing great books, connecting readers and authors globally, and spreading the love of reading.

Wikidata: website and database operated by the publisher Penguin Random House

Top 10K · #3,912 English 13 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Penguin Random House

Summary by Claude

Website of the trade book publisher Penguin Random House, presenting its catalog of books with new releases, bestsellers, curated reading lists, recommendations and links to buy titles.

Who it’s for
Book readers, parents, educators and booksellers
Business model
Book sales

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Penguin Random House’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

Barnes & NobleAirbnbRedfinOpen LibraryThriftBooksCBRlitnet.comGoodreadsAbeBooksBookshop.org

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Penguin Random House

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Penguin Random House, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Bookshop.org bookshop.org Top 10K English

    book e-commerce website

  2. 02
    AbeBooks abebooks.com Top 10K English

    AbeBooks | Shop for Books, Art & Collectibles

    Discover a wonderful selection of rare and collectible books, used copies, signed and first editions and more, from booksellers located around the world.

  3. 03
    Goodreads goodreads.com Top 1K

    Goodreads | Meet your next favorite book

    Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Goodreads.

  4. 04
    litnet.com Top 10K Russian

    Читать книги онлайн бесплатно полностью, скачать в fb2, epub, mobi — «Литнет»

    Самая крупная литературная платформа и библиотека, которая превращает чтение и публикацию книг в удовольствие. Более 180 000 книг, которые можно бесплатно читать онлайн и скачать. Все популярные жанры: любовный роман, фэнтези, фантастика и другие.

  5. 05
    CBR cbr.com Top 10K English

    CBR - The World's Top Destination For Comic, Movie & TV news

    Covering comics, movies, TV like no other in the world. CBR.com is all you need!

  6. 06
    ThriftBooks thriftbooks.com Top 10K

    US-based online used bookseller

  7. 07
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English

    Welcome to Open Library | Open Library

    Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

  8. 08
    Redfin redfin.com Top 10K English

    Human Verification

    American real estate brokerage

  9. 09
    Airbnb airbnb.com Top 1K English

    Airbnb: Vacation Rentals, Cabins, Beach Houses, Unique Homes & Experiences

    Get an Airbnb for every kind of trip → 8 million vacation rentals → 2 million Guest Favorites → 220+ countries and regions worldwide

  10. 10
    Barnes & Noble barnesandnoble.com Top 10K English

    Verifying your connection...

    American book retailer

  11. 11
    De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English

    De Gruyter Brill

    De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

  12. 12
    Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English

    Client Challenge

    global publishing company

  13. 13
    Shutterfly shutterfly.com Top 10K English

    Shutterfly | Photo Books, Cards, Prints, Wall Art, Gifts, Wedding

    Shop Shutterfly for custom photo books, prints, cards, invitations, gifts, wall art, calendars, and more. Personalize your favorite moments with high-quality, meaningful photo products.

  14. 14
    Vrbo vrbo.com Top 10K

    Bot or Not?

    American vacation rental online marketplace

  15. 15
    syosetu.com Top 10K Japanese

    小説家になろう - みんなのための小説投稿サイト

    日本最大級のWeb小説投稿サイト「小説家になろう」。作品数100万以上、登録者数240万人以上、小説閲覧数月間25億PV以上。パソコン・スマートフォンのどれでも使えて完全無料!

  16. 16
    Lonely Planet lonelyplanet.com Top 10K

    publisher of guidebooks and other media related to travel

  17. 17
    cian.ru Top 10K English

    Are you not a robot?

    Finds everything

  18. 18
    Thalia thalia.de Top 10K German

    Sicherheits-Check

    German book retail company

  19. 19
    Tom's Hardware tomshardware.com Top 10K English

    Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast

    Tom's Hardware helps you buy the best hardware and build the best PC to play, create and work..

  20. 20
    Forbes forbes.com Top 1K English

    forbes.com

    American business magazine

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to penguinrandomhouse.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Penguin Random House uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Penguin Random House is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CMS
JavaScript frameworks
  • React asset https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-includes/js/dist/vendor/react.min.js?ver=18.3.1.1
JavaScript libraries
  • jQuery asset https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.7.1/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
Tag managers
  • Tealium page source: tags.tiqcdn.com
CDN
  • Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: ij9yowjqCtUjLxl8tthhGuOWP4JSkVvjzA9WDlTjMXqcY0ipqLHm8Q==
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Email hosting
  • Mimecast MX us-smtp-inbound-2.mimecast.com
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=fSsk2qTskZIXUkhu
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=Kl3ByU1tsfV9fKiC7TDDZYz1uCeTeUo0SSEh5Si…
  • Canva TXT canva-site-verification=qrGQ4gxWAdHknibYOR88zw
  • Miro TXT miro-verification=20deb2e76b80e8360f078ce72b4c1b020ccbe7e1
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-Rhm7Hg5yRtoNsmysb1sZR4hb

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