Article: Ann Godoff Is Out At Random House.(TheFrontPage)

Byline: Joe Hagan

After five years as president of Random House, Ann Godoff was dismissed on Thursday Jan. 16 by president and chief executive Peter Olson, as part of a major shake-up at the Bertelsmann-owned publisher. Random House--one of the premier imprints in American publishing, founded by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer in 1925--will be merged with Ballantine Books, a mass market imprint that recently published the novelization of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, to form a new entity called Random House Ballantine Group.

Sources inside the company said Ms. Godoff had spent too much on acquisitions in the last year--in one instance, she paid $3 ...

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