He had been head of publisher development and publishing operations at Zumobi.
For the past three years, Lachlan Murdoch, who is 30, has been in charge of the News Corporation's United States publishing operations, including HarperCollins Publishers and The Post.
Lachlan Murdoch, as the deputy chief operating officer, oversees the company's publishing operations -- its traditional bedrock -- and its local TV stations, the company's most profitable operation.
Richard Amann was named to the new post of executive vice president for publishing operations at American Media, Boca Raton, Fla., overseeing the publishers of weeklies like The National Enquirer and Star.
BMG, which is the smallest of the major music publishers, having missed out to rivals on the publishing operations of EMI, will take direct responsibility for all Jagger and Richards's song publishing rights since 1983.
Five years ago, Mr. Middelhoff, who was then the chief executive of Bertelsmann, supported Mr. Olson in Bertelsmann's acquisition of Random House to become the largest English-language publisher, then put Mr. Olson in charge of all of Bertelsmann's book publishing operations and elevated him to the company's executive board.
Mr Sullivan's Essex mansion, the centre of his publishing operations, was also searched.
Two Disney executives will oversee the acquisition of new books for Disney's publishing operations.
Pearson's publishing operations represented 52percentt of its $5.37 billion in 1999 sales.
At least for the moment, Reed Elsevier will also keep Harcourt's small trade-book publishing operations.
Likewise, HarperCollins more centrally manages its publishing operations in England and Australia, she said.
