On the anniversary of the first big wave of realignments in Penguin’s adult publishing divisions, president Madeline McIntosh announced to staff the next phase. After merging the Berkley and NAL mass-market lines last June into the Berkley Publishing Group “to refine their genre fiction mass-market-original lists and shift their focus towards cross-format publishing,” McIntosh writes, “today we are taking another major step: Berkley now will be joined together with Putnam and Dutton under unified management.” (In the previous consolidation, NAL became the non-fiction group, with Berkley Books as the fiction imprint._ McIntosh explains further from an operational and strategic perspective: “As we face contracting shelf space […]
