In line with their muted January “trading update,” Pearson released its full 2018 results, reinforcing the continuing trend: Their major division, the US higher education courseware business, continues to decline as they continue its “digital transformation,” weighing down stable performance in the rest of the company’s continuing operations. Sales were £4.13 billion, down from £4.51 billion…
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Megan Harley has been named marketing manager at Algonquin Children’s. Sarah Alpert has been promoted to associate editor, now acquiring middle-grade and young adult fiction and non-fiction and graphic novels. At Chronicle Books, Allison Weiner has been promoted to design manager, art; Lisa Bach to director of special sales. Vanessa Navarrete to sales manager, independent specialty;…
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Rebecca Gyllenhaal has been promoted to assistant editor at Quirk Books. Heather Morris has been promoted to associate art director, adult nonfiction at Sourcebooks. Allan MacDougall, 71, co-founder and former ceo of Raincoast Books, Canada’s largest domestically-owned distributor, died following a long battle with dementia. A celebration of his life will be held at a later…
NYT Updates Dan Mallory Story With Details From Author’s Outlines
The New York Times’ February 14 story about allegations that Dan Mallory’s bestselling The Woman in the Window might have plagiarized Sarah Denzil’s Saving April received a prominent update on Tuesday. The revision, which “include[s] additional relevant information that Mr. Mallory’s lawyer and agent provided to The Times after publication,” contains information about initial outlines…
Quad’s LSC Acquisition Moving Forward on Schedule
Quad held its Q4 2018 earnings call February 20, reporting pro-forma net sales of $4.3 billion for the full year — of which only 6 percent was from its book printing business. While it didn’t break out a dollar value, that would indicate books comprise $258 million in revenue, a figure that will grow dramatically…
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Mauro DiPreta will join the William Morrow group on March 4 as svp, executive editor, reporting to Liate Stehlik. He previously worked at HarperCollins for 16 years until 2011, and mostly recently was founder, vp and publisher of Hachette Books. Katya Shannon is stepping down this spring as vice president, special markets, Penguin Random House….