Books Random Speculation About Random House
posted by on May 6 at 12:09 PM
According to the New York Times, Peter W. Olson, the chief executive of giant publisher Random House, and a man who looks like the main character in a 1980’s John Updike novel—
—will resign. Or will be forced to resign by a penny-pinching boss, because profits at Random House (one of the three biggest publishers in the US) fell 5.6 percent last year. At least Olson was a heavy reader, and so he was likely to read a lot of the product he was responsible for. I shudder to think what’ll happen if Bertelsmann, the German company that now owns Random House, puts an accountant in charge. Get ready for the book version of Ouch My Balls!
Bold tag!
Get a fucking haircut. And some new glasses. Jesus Christ.
Read it and weep:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/s-titles/schiffrin_books.shtml
Or, the cliff notes version:
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/3/28/andre_schiffrin_on_50_years_in
Why, thank you, Aislinn. I think your tag is pretty bold, too.
He looks more like the demented love child of a threeway between Steven King, Dean Koontz, and Ridley Pearson.
@5
There's some Tim Gunn in there, too. It just doesn't work.
Olson was a penny-pinching boss who pushed out editors who thought writing was an art.
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