• 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.

January 24, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

Knopf evp, executive director of publicity, promotion and media relations Paul Bogaards penned the most talked about online item of the day, a Top 100 “Hierarchy of Book Publishing” with the same spirit as some of his inimitable Twitter posts. Bogaards told us by e-mail, “Consider the post a Valentine to our industry, which I love, and honestly, I couldn’t imagine doing anything else.”

Random House, S&S, Nosy Crow, and Robot Media were among the winners of the 2nd annual Publishing Innovation Awards, announced Monday night as part of the opening of Digital Book World.
Full List

At Harper UK, group digital director David Roth-Ey will move over to executive publisher of 4th Estate and Harper Press as of February 6. (The imprint The Friday Project will continue to report to him as well.) The Bookseller says “a new digital structure at the publisher is to be announced ‘shortly.'”

At Random House Children’s, Kristen Depken has been promoted to associate editor (she has been working on their Golden Books line) and Caitlin Flynn has joined the sales department. Flynn was a marketing assistant at Palgrave Macmillan.

Style expert and author of books including How Not to Look Old and How to Never Look Fat Again Charla Krupp, 58, died of breast cancer Monday.

The Chicago Tribune’s revamped Printers Row books pages will be introduced “sometime next month” as a standalone section that will charge readers $99 a year, or $2.99 per single edition (available only through Amazon.) The new Printers Row “will feature 24 pages of book reviews, author interviews and Chicago-focused literary news, along with a weekly bonus book of short fiction.”
Tribune

Penguin issued a statement with respect to the agreement reached between them and mystery writer Martha Grimes, as first reported in Monday’s Lunch. “In a mediation before a federal Magistrate, Penguin and Martha Grimes reached a tentative agreement on sharing the legal expenses incurred by Penguin in a separate lawsuit brought by Grimes’ former agent, Peter Lampack. Our attorneys are working on a formal agreement memorializing the settlement,” the publisher said.

Filed Under: Awards, 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

  • Hollywood Studios Are Using Force Majeure Clauses to Extend Book Options for Free During Writers' Strike May 30, 2023 WSJ
  • On the Staying Power of Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" May 26, 2023 NYT
  • Another Postponement: Publishers and Internet Archive Still Negotiating Judgement, Will Try Again for June 9 May 26, 2023 PL court document
  • Martin Amis, 73, Dies of Esophogeal Cancer May 21, 2023 BBC
  • Britney Spears Concedes Delay On Her Book: "It may take me a year, maybe longer who knows ... to share my story" May 20, 2023 Instagram
  • Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson Announced for Publication September 12 May 18, 2023 Press release
  • Penguin Random House and PEN America Sue a Florida School District, Alleging Removal of Books about Race and LGBTQ+ Identify Violates First Amendment May 17, 2023 AP
  • Thomas Coesfeld to Become CEO of BMG On July 1, Ahead of Previous Schedule May 17, 2023 Press Release
  • Hammesly Posts "Statement on My Departure From New Leaf Literary": "It was not my choice to leave, and I am heartbroken to learn that the publishing journeys of so many of my clients have been disrupted." May 16, 2023 Twitter post
  • Storytel's StorySide Buys Publishing Rights to Finnish Crime Author Seppo Jokinen's Catalog May 15, 2023 Press Release
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.