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The New York Observer reports major reorganization at Random House. Major shifts in the structure with some top management out. 

Highlights from the article:

• Doubleday's flagship imprint and its Nan A. Talese unit will fall under the command of Sonny Mehta at Knopf.
• Crown will incorporate Broadway, Doubleday Business, Doubleday Religion, and WaterBrook Multnomah, with Crown publisher Jenny Frost presiding over all of them.
• Gina Centrello at Random House group will get Susan Kamil's Dial Press, previously the literary imprint of Bantam Dell, and Spiegel & Grau, the division of Doubleday launched last year and nurtured by Steve Rubin. 

Update: Cuts hit Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, too.

Hat tip: Henry