Nicole de Jackmo has been named publicity manager for Quirk Books. Previously she was a senior publicist for Running Press. Meghan Cassidy joins Free Press as senior publicist as of Monday, August 15. Previously she was a senior account executive at Widmeyer Communications. Joy Aquilino has joined Sixth&Spring Books as editorial director. Previously she was executive editor of Watson-Guptill/Potter Craft. At Phaidon Press, Peter Tittiger has been promoted to publicist. At Lonely Planet, Gary Todoroff has been promoted to v-p, sales, Brice Gosnell moves up to v-p, publishing, and publisher, Americas, Marc Visnick has been promoted to director of sales, […]
Archives for August 2011
‘Elf On the Shelf’ Publishers Sue Adams Media Over Parody
CCA and B, LLC, which publishes the holiday book ELF ON THE SHELF, appear to be unamused at the prospect of a parody due for publication on October 18 by Adams Media, so much so they are suing the company – as well as editor Brendan O’Neill, publicist Beth Gissinger, designer Jessica Faria, and parent company F+W Media – in Georgia District Court. According to the 19-count complaint filed on June 24, Adams’ ELF OFF THE SHELF: A Christmas Tradition Gone Bad, infringes on CCA and B’s trademarks, copyright, and domain name, and they seek both a jury trial and […]
People, Etc.
Brian Ulicky has been named publicity manager for Blue Rider Press, starting September 6. He was most recently at Simon & Schuster, also as a publicity manager. Simon & Schuster Children’s has announced a number of new hires and promotions. Ariel Colletti has moved to the Atheneum imprint, where she will remain an assistant editor, and editorial assistant Dani Young will also oversee the coordinating of all three imprints’ paperback conversions, repackages, as well as managing the back ad library. In addition, Amy Rosenbaum has joined as an editorial assistant, having recently completed the Columbia Publishing Course. Penguin rep Ann […]
Borders Gets Court Approval On Auctions for Intellectual Property and Real Estate Leases
Borders received approval from federal bankruptcy court Wednesday to auction its name (as well as the brand names of once-operational subsidiaries Waldenbooks and Brentano’s), trademarks, website, and email lists on September 14, Reuters reported. Borders has enlisted Streambank to manage the sale of Borders’ intellectual property assets, with the firm’s principal David Peress noting in a statement that in addition to its marks and e-commerce assets, “Borders is the holder of a contiguous block of IPv4 addresses which it seeks to transfer to a qualified buyer.” A stalking horse bidder for the IP assets will be named in advance of […]
Attorney Discusses Agency Lawsuit
In an interview on Wednesday, managing partner at law firm Hagens Berman Steve Berman confirmed a number of the inferences in our initial report on their lawsuit against Apple and the Agency Five publishers. Berman admits that for now they have no actual evidence of collusion and no information beyond what is already well-known publicly and outlined in their complaint. But he believes that provides a sufficiently “plausible allegation…that there was a conspiracy” to get a judge’s approval to go forward with the case and compel discovery. (Berman also has no direct knowledge of the civil investigations into the same […]
Harper Praises Children’s Results; US eBooks Were 12 Percent for the Year
News Corp. reported fourth quarter earnings after the close of the market on Wednesday, and per the new standard there was no specific mention of either HarperCollins or book publishing. The larger publishing division–which is dominated by the company’s newspapers–had a good performance despite public controversy, with sales up $225 million and segment operating income rising $74 million. Harper said in a brief statement that it “ended the year with a profitable quarter and exceeded its plan for the year.” They say the children’s division enjoyed “its second best ever” year. eBook sales were “approximately 12 percent of sales in […]