Broadway Books is an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.. It released its first list in Fall 1996. Broadway was founded in 1995 as a unit of Bantam Doubleday Dell, a unit of Bertelsmann.[1] Bertelsmann acquired Random House in 1998 and merged Broadway into a combined group with Doubleday the next year.[2] Random House reorganized again in 2008, with Doubleday moving to Knopf and Broadway moving to its current home at Crown.[3] Broadway's general-interest publishing was combined with Crown in 2010.[4] Broadway became the paperback publisher for the Crown imprint in 2010.[5]