Penguin Random House is operating at half mast as word spreads nationwide of the passing of a retired colleague who helped shape and transform our facilities’ pipeline into the centerpiece of trade publishing’s leading supply chain.

Phyllis Mandel, the cherished, pioneering, woman-championing operations executive whose late 20th-/early 21st-century leadership of the Bantam Books, Bantam Doubleday Dell, and Random House facilities profoundly impacted our books, our distribution and fulfillment, and our booksellers, died on May 20 in Cape Cod the day after her 75th birthday. Continue reading →