Amazon announced to a group of agents Sunday night that Larry Kirshbaum will leave agenting and return to publishing, serving as vp and publisher for Amazon Publishing's New York office, effective immediately (officially starting July 5). Kirshbaum, who celebrates his birthday on Monday, says "On my sixty-seventh birthday, I'm reinventing…
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