June 12, 2003, the proposed merger of Random House and Time Warner Book Group CEO was canceled parent company Random House, Bertelsmann. This announcement was welcomed by many critics, who have questioned the logic of further consolidation in the publishing industry, with reference to the power of large publishing houses - Random House was already the world's largest book publishers - and the accompanying commercialization of literature. Peter Olson, CEO of Random House, had to decide how to proceed and deal with a number of challenges facing the publishing industry: first, by backward integration Barnes and Noble in book publishing, and the potential for digital devices such as e-books to undermine the traditional value chain of publishing. Description of each of these stresses. "Hide
random house Case Study Solution
by Bharat N. Anand, Kyle Barnett, Elizabeth Carpenter Source: Harvard Business School 26 pages. Publication Date: February 17, 2004. Prod. #: 704438-PDF-ENG
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