Karen Rinaldi

Leigh Haber, who has been running her own nonfiction imprint at Rodale Books since last year, has left the company amid tension with general manager and publishing director Karen Rinaldi. Ms. Rinaldi, who spent nine years as the founding publisher of Bloomsbury USA, became Ms. Haber's boss in April.

Ms. Haber, who made tons of money for Rodale as the editor of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, had her last day in the office yesterday. She had been "in and out" for several weeks prior to that.  read more »

Liz Perl has resigned her post as the publisher of Rodale Books and taken a senior marketing position at Simon & Schuster's adult publishing group. Ms. Perl, who served at the helm of Rodale from the spring of 2006 until last March when former Bloomsbury USA head Karen Rinaldi was installed as general manager and publishing director, became well-known in the publishing community during the 1990s, when she worked at Penguin as director of publicity and later as director of marketing.

In her new capacity as senior vice president of marketing, Ms. Perl will oversee advertising and promotion at S&S's flagship imprint, as well as Atria, Free Press, Pocket Books, Scribner, and Touchstone-Fireside. She will report to Michael Selleck, S&S's executive VP of sales and marketing.

Calls to Ms. Perl and Ms. Rinaldi have not yet been returned.

Memo to Rodale staff from Ms. Rinaldi after the jump.  read more »

Bloomsbury USA announced this afternoon that Richard Charkin, executive director of its UK-based parent company, will take over for recently departed president Karen Rinaldi, while Colin Dickerman, Ms. Rinaldi's old No. 2, will serve as publisher of the house's adult trade operation.  read more »