The job reductions announced yesterday by Barnes & Noble have extended beyond the executive office and bookselling part of the company into their Sterling Publishing unit. One source at Sterling estimates that approximately 15 people at the publishing unit were laid off, throughout Sterling’s New York office, Lark Books line, and warehouse. At least two Sterling executives were let go. Moby Lives has information on one of them. BN spokesperson Mary Ellen Keating would not confirm or comment on our information, saying that “we have not broken out reductions by department.” Asked about Sterling’s publishing output, she said “there are […]