Having turned the Crown Publisher Group into a sprawling empire of lines, Random House ceo Markus Dohle announced today that “we believe that both our overall publishing interests and those of our respective imprints, authors, and our colleagues, will now be best served by splitting off the current Crown Publishing Group into separately structured and distinct groups: one comprised of the Crown trade-publishing imprints; the other with the Random House Audio Group and the Random House Information Group.” Current president and Publisher of the Crown Publishing Group Jenny Frost is “stepping down effective immediately…bringing to a close a distinctive quarter-century […]
