"I didn't even need to read the proposal to know I wanted to buy the book," said Stephen Rubin, president of the Broadway-Doubleday unit of the Bertelsmann Group.
In 1997, he became the Managing Director of Bertelsmann Online in Spain & Latin America, a Joint Venture created by Planeta Corporación and Bertelsmann Group, based in New York, USA, and investment activities in all major Latin American countries.
The Bertelsmann Group runs one based in Shanghai with 1.5 million members.
He stayed behind in the court law library and firmed up book deal details with Jules Halpern and the Bertelsmann Group, now the most powerful book publishing conglomerate around the world.
In 2005 the magazine was again relaunched by Tigerpress Verlag, Hamburg, a part of the Gruner & Jahr publishing house from the Bertelsmann Group.
Sony and the Bertelsmann Group still produce their own compact discs, but analysts maintain that it is only a matter of time before all the major recording companies outsource manufacturing and distribution.
From 1998 to 2004 he worked for the Bertelsmann Group, as special representative of the Board.
