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Archives for November 2012

Award Winners Mantel and Boo Lead “Best of 2012” Lists

November 30, 2012
By Michael Cader

The season for selecting the best books of the year has begun in earnest–with a number of new lists in recent days (noted below)–and will continue through New Year’s. For the fourth year, Publishers Lunch will be following and aggregating those lists from all over to form our can’t-miss consensus lists of The Best of […]

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International: Random House Mondadori Buyout Completed; Harper Takes Full Control of India Division

November 30, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

Spanish antitrust authorities gave swift approval to Bertelsmann’s purchase of Mondadori’s 50 percent stake in the Spanish-language publishing company Random House Mondadori. The transaction officially closed Friday. As previously announced, Random House Mondadori will retain its corporate name for now, with no changes to its leadership, organizational structure, and publishing programs. HarperCollins announced it has […]

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United Agents Completes Acquisition of AP Watt

November 30, 2012
By Michael Cader

The week’s second exhibit in literary agency consolidation: In the UK, United Agents has finalized their acquisition of venerable AP Watt, the Bookseller confirms, after first reporting on the talks in September. Only five members of AP Watt’s staff are joining United Agents in the transition, however, starting next week: Natasha Fairweather will join United […]

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People, Etc.

November 30, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

Midas Public Relations CEO Jacks Thomas will join Reed Exhibitions UK in January as senior exhibition director for the London Book Fair. LBF has been a Midas client for 10 years, and will remain so in the future. Kelly Welsh will join Putnam and Amy Einhorn Books as senior publicity manager on December 3. Previously she […]

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RHPG Adds More Digital-Only Genre Imprints: Alibi, Hydra, Flirt

November 29, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

A year after reviving Loveswept as a digital-only romance imprint, the Random House Publishing Group announced three additional genre-focused digital imprints: Alibi, for mystery/thriller/suspense; Hydra, for science fiction & fantasy, and Flirt, for New Adult (i.e “targeting women in their twenties and thirties.”) Each imprint will publish original short content (ranging between 10,000 and 30,000 […]

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People, Etc.

November 29, 2012
By Michael Cader

At Ingram’s library services business, Dan Sheehan was promoted to vp and general manager in September. Pamela Smith will join the unit on December 3 as vp of global sales for the library business. She was most recently an svp at Follett. Powell’s Books has created an ale of their own in collaboration with Rogue […]

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