: By early next year, “all 100-plus imprints and the more than 1,000 employees of Random House, the world’s largest trade publisher” will be moved out of the various office buildings and into a new 48-story skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. “The new $300 million building will fulfill chief executive Peter Olson’s grand vision of a unified company under a single roof: one big happy family, with German parent Bertelsmann as patriarch.” But “for many publishing people, there’s a visceral resistance to the idea of lumping dozens of book-publishing cultures—from the fusty highbrow aura of Knopf to the mass-market commercialism of Bantam Dell—into one midtown conglomerate monstrosity.”