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Bertelsmann’s Direct Group Hits a Few Big Bumps on the Road to Worldwide Synergy

May 1, 2001

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ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT INSIDE.COM (4/23/01) You can’t blame Thomas Middelhoff for trying. The chief executive of German media behemoth Bertelsmann — doted on in the business pages as a Visor-toting visionary dragging an ossified corporate empire out of the Westphalian mist — has upped the ante for global synergizing in one of his company’s most…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Amazon.com, AOL Time Warner, BarnesandNoble.com, Bertelsmann, Bertelsmann Content Network, BMG, BMG Direct, BOL, Book-of-the-Month Club, Bookspan, CDNow, DirectGroup Bertelsmann, George McMillan, Gruner + Jahr, Klaus Eierhoff, Markus Wilhelm, Random House, Thomas Middelhoff, Wal-Mart

Content for Hire

December 1, 2000

Book Packagers Make the Best of a Worst-Case Scenario “The advantage of working with packagers,” says Mark Magowan, associate publisher at Abrams, “is that when the math of a series goes down, you don’t have to fire your own staff.” Though Magowan may be grinning as he says it, it’s no joke that book packagers…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged 17th Street Productions, Abrams, Al Lowman, Alloy Online, American Whole Health, Aqua Erotica, B&N.com, Bertelsmann, Book Soup, Bookspan, Broadway Books, Cader Books, Charles Melcher, Chronicle, Crown, Dan Weiss, David Borgenicht, Gruner + Jahr, Home Depot, Home Improvement 1-2-3, Jack Kerouac, Judith Joseph, Julia Molino, Kraft No Oven Summer Sensations, LiveReads, Mark Magowan, Melcher Media, Meredith, Michael Cader, Orpheus Emerged, Publisherslunch.com, Reader's Digest, Rebus, Rizzoli, Rodney Friedman, Roundtable Press, Soapdish Editions, Susan Meyer, The Amazing Book of Paper Boats, Three Rivers Press, Time Inc., Time Warner, UC Berkeley Wellness Letter, Van Nostrand Reinhold, WholeHealthMD, Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook

Bertelsmann’s Ventures

August 1, 2000

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Random House Parent Wages Global E-Commerce Turf War There is a special place on Thomas Middelhoff’s atlas of corporate geography that he likes to call “Bertelsmann Valley.” You might think of it as Silicon Valley stretched to a global scale and populated with scenic villages of dot-com shops, a few stray Holstein cows, and a…Continue Reading

Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Amazon, Andreas Schmidt, AOL Time Warner, Audible, B&N.com, BOL.com, Book-of-the-Month Club, Bookspan, CBS Viacom, CDNow, Daniel Brewster, Digital World Services, Doubleday Direct, GetMusic, Gruner + Jahr, Peter Olson, Random House, Reader's Digest, Richard Sarnoff, Terra Lycos, Times Mirror, Xlibris

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