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Article: Ann Godoff Is Out At Random House.(TheFrontPage)
- Article from:
- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- January 20, 2003
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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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Article: Ann Godoff at Penguin Press Prevails in Intramural ...
The New York Observer (New York, NY);
November 21, 2008 ;
584 words
... ... lots! At least three Penguin imprints were in the mix, among them Geoff Kloske's Riverhead, Paul Slovak's Viking, and Ann Godoff's Penguin Press. Then, as of yesterday, the game was over, and everyone but Ms. Godoff had taken their ball and gone ...
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