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
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
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.
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book e-commerce website
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Human Verification
American real estate brokerage
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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
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Verifying your connection...
American book retailer
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De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
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Client Challenge
global publishing company
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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.
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Are you not a robot?
Finds everything
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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..
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forbes.com
American business magazine
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MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community
Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
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RTB House. The Next-generation Performance DSP
Cut through the online noise with truly personalized marketing campaigns powered by Deep Learning. Drive growth on web and app.
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How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
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Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
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Teaching Resources & Lesson Plans | TPT
World’s most popular online marketplace for original educational resources with more than four million resources available for use today.
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Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things
Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...
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Simple Page
food focused online social networking service
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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
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- 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
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1709.awsdns-21.co.uk
- 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
Stack changes
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on penguinrandomhouse.com 20/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on penguinrandomhouse.com 15/20
- Atlassian 12/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on penguinrandomhouse.com 11/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Google Workspace · not on penguinrandomhouse.com 9/20
- Apple Business 9/20
- Canva 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on penguinrandomhouse.com 7/20
- Adobe · not on penguinrandomhouse.com 7/20
- DocuSign · not on penguinrandomhouse.com 7/20
- OpenAI 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on penguinrandomhouse.com 4/20
- Stripe · not on penguinrandomhouse.com 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on penguinrandomhouse.com 4/20