• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register

Publishers Lunch

The Publishing Industry's Daily Essential Read

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

People, Etc.

June 30, 2011
By Sarah Weinman

Anthony Cheetham has left Atlantic Books, where he was an associate publisher and director on its board, in what he described as a “joint decision” between himself and Atlantic ceo Toby Mundy. “There wasn’t a huge amount for me to do at Atlantic, and the projects that I had envisaged working on were not really happening because it has been a difficult year for the company,” Cheetham told the Bookseller. He added that he was about to launch a new venture sometime this autumn, and while Cheetham did not give many details, evidently the plan is to “develop a ‘specialist publishing list’ using e-books and the web.”

Cheetham has been there less than two years, and retains a 7.5 percent stake in the company. He tells the Bookseller, “The shares are a mid- to long-term investment and I hope they do as well for me as the Quercus shares did.”

Bridget Wagner has joined Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as an affiliate agent in the agency’s Washington, DC offices. Previously she worked as an agent and foreign rights director at The Sagalyn Agency.

Tara Kennedy joins Oxford University Press as publicity manager, Justyna Zajac has been promoted to publicist, and Betsy DeJesu has been promoted to senior publicity manager. DeJesu first arrived at OUP in 2005.

Hanca Leppink is retiring as managing director/publisher of
Luitingh-Sijthoff on July 1 after more than 22 years with the company. Geneviève Waldmann will succeed her, and Leppink will remain with Luitingh-Sijthoff as an editor-at-large and serve on the advisory board of parent company Veen, Bosch & Keuning.

Ingram’s Vital Source has acquired e-textbook company VPG Integrated Media, which creates enhanced e-textbook applications, interactive learning objects and e-whiteboard content, and state-of-the-art video, audio, and animation production services for educational publishers.

Filed Under: Agency News, eNews, Free, Personnel

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login


Forgot password
Quick Pass users click here to log in
Get Full Access
The publishing industry's essential daily read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • Booktopia Borrows $12 Million (AU) For New Fulfillment Center, With Some Funding From Nash and Taurig February 3, 2023 Press Release
  • Barnes & Noble Signs Lease for 7,000-Square-Foot Store in Brunswick, ME February 3, 2023 Maine Biz
  • A Former Prosecutor Explains the Precedents On Woodward and S&S's Side February 2, 2023 The Hill
  • Author Booted From Horror Writers Association Over Racist, Transphobic Rants February 1, 2023 Daily Beast
  • Two Years Ago Netflix Settled A Lawsuit Brought by Chooseco; Now Random House Has Licensed A "Stranger Things" Choose Your Own Adventure Book February 1, 2023 PW (with no reference to the lawsuit)
  • London Book Fair Seminars to Feature Harper CEO Brian Murray, Author Colson Whitehead February 1, 2023 Show site
  • Folio Prize Shortlists Announced February 1, 2023 Prize site
  • Barnes &. Noble Plans 15,000-Square-Foot Store At The Avenue East Cobb in Atlanta January 30, 2023 East Cobb News
  • Boris Johnson Received £510,000 As First Advance on His Memoirs January 27, 2023 Parliamentary Disclosure
  • Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne's Literary Archives Acquired by New York Public Library January 27, 2023 NYT
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.