Here are the two memos that accompanied Random House C.E.O. Markus Dohle’s big announcement this morning. The first concerns the elimination of Steve Rubin’s job at the top of Doubleday and the possibility of his being appointed to a new job within the company. The second concerns Irwyn Applebaum, who will be leaving Random House Read More
A few years back, Irwyn Applebaum, the president of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group and a maestro of mass-market fiction, traveled to Rancho Mirage, Calif., for a meeting at the home of Tim LaHaye, the evangelical preacher and creator of the Left Behind series. The wildly best-selling apocalyptic adventure novels involve, among other things, vivid Read More
On a recent afternoon, a high-ranking editor at Random House Inc. was asked to discuss the Applebaum brothers, the two most powerful siblings in New York publishing.
“I’m hanging up the phone in five seconds unless you change the subject,” the editor said.
Stuart Applebaum, 53, the corporate spokesman for Random House Inc., the Read More
