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...firm, which published the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century, is vertically integrated, with everything from a printing company to a book club. "Other corporations don't view trade publishing as a core business," says Bertelsmann's Peter Olson, 47, who will become chairman and CEO of the new Random House. "We do; we believe in books; they are not a stepchild...
...acquisitive Middelhoff picked up Random House as if it were a souvenir. Last fall he came to the U.S. to study English and learn about the American publishing industry. At a 70th-birthday bash for Si Newhouse, he mentioned to the birthday boy that if Advance were ever interested in selling Random House, Bertelsmann would be interested in buying. A week later the clandestine deal, code-named Project Black, was under...
...Bertelsmann deal. "The decision of what is on the shelves is in the hands of a few," laments Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. "This is consolidation in a major and disturbing way." Industry alarmists are concerned that advances are sure to dwindle when BDD and Random House are no longer competing for books. Bertelsmann disagrees. "I've heard much concern about advances in the past six years," says new Random House head Olson, "and they have only moved in one direction." North. Facing his critics, he says, "We are not looking to cut back on imprints...
...what might that mean? Middelhoff doesn't mince words. "Random House is a case study," he says. "We'd like to do it again with a music label." Maybe on his next trip...
...religious zealots. "If rain had come, things might have turned out differently," she says. "That is what I think now. But there were children in Outer Maroo who had never seen rain." Into this withered rangeland came a drifter who dressed in white and called himself Oyster, a random alias he had adopted while working with an aquaculture firm. In his new manifestation he was a religious con man, a charismatic spellbinder who had learned the trick of looking for long seconds into a listener's eyes while reciting apocalyptic prophecy in tones of sexual love. And he had opals...