PRH Two-Day Transit Program Is Back
The eighth annual Penguin Random House two-day transit program has begun for 2019-20, Jaci Updike, president of U.S. Sales at Penguin Random House, has announced. This year, the program begins a month earlier than usual, and will run through March 2, 2020. Weather and transport conditions permitting, the company will ship orders out of its Westminster, Md., and Crawfordsville, Ind., operations centers for its Penguin Random House–affiliated publishers’ physical-format titles, received from indies by 3:00 p.m. ET Monday-Friday, to arrive at the bookseller in two days or less. Both centers have weekend shifts on duty to expedite Monday arrivals for orders received Friday and Saturday. The program encompasses every frontlist and backlist title from the imprints of the Knopf Doubleday, Penguin Publishing Groups, Random House, Random House Children’s Books, Penguin Young Readers, Penguin Random House Audio divisions, and DK Publishing, as well as all the clients of Penguin Random House Publisher Services.
