Barnes & Noble has hired Thomas Donohue as vp, treasurer and Kanuj Malhotra as vp, corporate development. Donohue was most recently vp, assistant treasurer, International of the The Interpublic Group of Companies, while Malhotra was previously vp, finance head for the graduate programs business unit of Kaplan Test Prep. In addition, Andy Milevoj has been promoted to vp, investor relations. All three executives report to cfo Michael Huseby. At Bloomsbury, Kathleen Farrar is being promoted from her position setting up Bloomsbury Australia and will take over as group sales and marketing director as of January 1, 2013. She will be […]
Archives for July 2012
A New Way to Use Our Contacts
The PublishersMarketplace Contacts database has long been one of our most popular features and now we are rolling out a way to make it even more useful: The PM Contacts mobile web app. To load the app on any iOS or Android device, point your browser to: http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/pm/contacts. (It will work on modern Blackberry devices as well, but not ancient ones, and most anything that supports jQuery Mobile.) Your device should then show you how to add the app to your home screen with one click. It provides access to the full PM contacts database, plus adds a few great […]
People
John Mark Boling has joined Grove/Atlantic as a senior publicist. He was previously a trade and academic marketing manager at Continuum. Peter Blackstock has been promoted to assistant editor. At Random House, four executives “who are leading important corporate business areas” have been promoted to senior vice president: Milena Alberti, Director, Corporate Development and Strategy; Amanda Close, Director, Digital Marketplace Development; Nihar Malaviya, Director, Strategy, Analytics, and Program Development; and Nina von Moltke, Director, Digital Publishing Development. Kate Brown will join Yale University Press as coo. She was most recently managing director of Bank of America’s Technology, Media, and Telecom […]
People, Etc.: Marion Cunningham Dies
Marion Cunningham, 90, author of cookbooks such as LEARNING TO COOK and THE FANNIE FARMER COOKBOOK, died Wednesday in an assisted-care home in Walnut Creek, CA from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease. Her longtime editor at Knopf Judith Jones said in a statement that Cunningham “epitomized good American food…She was someone who had an ability to take a dish, savor it in her mouth, and give it new life. At a time when Americans were embracing all kinds of foreign cuisine, Marion Cunningham’s love and respect for American food helped The Fannie Farmer Cookbook once again earn a place in kitchens […]
With Over 800 Comments, Justice Plans to Post and Reply In About A Week
As a follow-up to our Monday story wondering when the Department of Justice will publish the public comments on the proposed ebook pricing settlement, along with their replies, the Antitrust Division’s Mark Ryan wrote to Judge Cote yesterday in answer to Bob Kohn’s complaint. Notably, Ryan says DOJ received over 800 comments, “as many as half” of which “arrived within a few days of or after the comment deadline.” Ryan tells the Judge the department is “working expeditiously” to publish the comments and their replies, and without giving a firm deadline indicates they intend to do so “approximately two weeks” […]
McGraw-Hill Hires Bankers to Investigate Education Sale, Too
A day after McGraw-Hill filed SEC documents offering financial details about the planned spinoff MH Education company, the NY Post reports that the company has also hired Evercore Partners and Goldman Sachs to explore an outright sale of the unit. As usual private equity firms are tipped as the most likely bidders, though the paper notes in an understatement that private equity has “a mixed record in the education publishing and testing space.” The source or the paper–it’s hard to tell which–asserts that “the education unit is worth an estimated $3 billion, based on its $400 million in Ebitda, or earnings […]