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December 2, 2010By Michael Cader

People, Awards, Announcements, Etc.

December 2, 2010By Michael Cader

Courtney Young has been promoted to senior editor for Portfolio, Sentinel, and Current.

At HarperCollins, David Sweeney has been promoted to vp, special markets responsible for mail order, retail, wholesale and premium, taking on added responsibility of leading the premium sales team.

Alexandra Harris‘s ROMANTIC MODERNS: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper, won the Guardian First Book Award.

Melville House has agreed to publish the winner of the new Paris Literary Prize, to be given by the Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company to a previously unpublished writer working in English.

The web site for Borders Australia now offers 100 million items–including new and used books, textbooks, movies, and music–from Monsoon Commerce Solutions’ independent sellers.

Book publisher and retailer Juta and Company will distribute Scholastic‘s books and educational materials in South Africa starting January 2011. Additionally, “the two companies will explore local publishing projects as well as opportunities to create Scholastic titles appropriate for the South African school market that meet curriculum requirements.”

Sesame Street‘s ebookstore has added a monthly subscription option, now letting customers enroll in a $3.99 a month plan (alongside their annual subscription of $39.99). Customers get access to over 125 ebooks in their collection.

Filed Under: Awards, Distribution, Free, Personnel

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