The man who published "The Da Vinci Code" has a new job at Random House, two months after his division was dismantled in a companywide reorganization.

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At Doubleday, Rubin published Dan Brown's megaseller, along with blockbusters by John Grisham and Pat Conroy. Doubleday was shut down and its imprints dispersed after Random House reduced its major divisions from five to three in December.

Rubin's responsibilities include collaborating with Random House publishers worldwide on book acquisitions and continuing to work on projects with Grisham, Conroy and other writers.

In a memo to staff, Mr. Dohle announced changes that elevated the roles of Gina Centrello, head of the company's so-called Little Random unit, Sonny Mehta, head of the venerable Alfred A. Knopf group and Jenny Frost, president of the Crown Publishing Group, publisher of two memoirs by president elect Barack Obama.

In the new organization, Ms. Centrello will now oversee the Random House Publishing Group, which includes the Ballantine division, as well as the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, the Dial Press and a relatively new imprint of Doubleday, Spiegel & Grau. Mr. Mehta's empire will expand to include the Doubleday and Nan A. Talese imprints....Ms. Frost will take over several imprints from the Doubleday Group, including Doubleday Business, Doubleday Religion and WaterBrook Multomah.

In his memo, Mr. Dohle said that the Ballantine, Bantam Dell and Random House imprints would maintain separate editorial departments. Mr. Dohle said that each imprint could continue to bid on new books independently at auctions and would remain autonomous in decisions about what and how to publish. Mr. Dohle noted that "because of the current economic crisis, our industry is facing some of the most difficult times in publishing history."