- at Doubleday Broadway, at least 6 job cuts, including four people from the art department and one from marketing.
- that Crain's reports that the job losses at DB total 22.
- Big Random spokesman Stuart Applebaum reiterated that it's up to division heads to set head-count targets and make cuts (as I usually put it: "Bertelsmann doesn't care how they make budget, it just insists that they do.")
- Little Random spokeswoman Carol Schneider said that Knopf and Little Random sub-rights departments were not merging, but was slipperier on the subject of the two layoffs the Observer reported earlier in the week.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Random House Restructuring Blues
Publishers Lunch -- no link, sorry, it comes via e-mail -- reports the following:
2 comments:
You know what I've realized from these reports of job losses is that I have no idea how many people it takes to run a publishing company. Is 6 people a lot to lose from Random House? I've always had this image of Random House with tens of thousands of employees, just because it's such a huge publisher.
Or is turnover of any kind just really rare?
I'm not trying to be callous, but the big companies I've worked for wouldn't even notice the terminations of 6 people, because they're getting rid of so many more than that.
skottk: Well, according to Hoovers, Random House as a whole -- and this is probably world-wide -- employs less than six thousand people.
Doubleday Broadway, the group that's losing at least six and maybe as many as twenty-two people, is probably no more than two hundred, and possibly quite less.
Publishing companies are actually pretty small -- there aren't that many jobs to begin with.
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