• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register
Publishers Lunch logo Publishers Lunch logo
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help
Login Sign Up
  • Personnel
  • AI
  • Compensation
  • Unions
  • Book Bans
  • New Releases
  • Earnings
  • The Trial
  • Archives
Publishers Lunch logo
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help
  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

November 20, 2012By Sarah Weinman

People, Etc.

November 20, 2012By Sarah Weinman

Rodale Books publisher Steve Perrine is leaving the company after more than 20 years along with Men’s Health editor-in-chief and general manager of Rodale Books and the Healthy Living Group Dave Zinczenko. The NY Post reports the two men “are said to be teaming up on a new venture” while ceo Maria Rodale told the paper Zinczenko’s departure “was a mutual decision, but we initiated the discussion.”

Former literary agent at ICM Kate Lee has joined online publishing platform startup Medium as director of content in New York, where she will “be building a small team to help her.” They write: “Kate’s job is to help get great stuff onto Medium. She’ll do this in a variety of ways—by discovering, encouraging, soliciting, commissioning, and contextualizing interesting ideas, authors, and institutions.”

Director, product management for Nook Wendy Bronfin will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as svp consumer products and marketing later this month, Publishing Trends reports.

Australia’s Scribe Publications will set up a UK operation next year, with Faber Factory Plus handling sales and distribution. They intend to publish 20 to 30 books a year in the UK, starting in June 2013. Rina Gill will be their UK publicity director. She was previously publicity director for Corvus, deputy publicity director for Cornerstone, and publicity director for Century.

Founder and publisher, Henry Rosenbloom says in the announcement, “This is a big step for a small company to take, but the reasons for it are compelling, on both the buying and selling sides. It will give us the capacity to acquire UK and Commonwealth rights in some overseas-originated titles that would otherwise be denied us; and it also means that many more of our books, which come from many sources, will be available in much of the English-reading world.”

Hastings Entertainment reported results for its third quarter early Monday morning. The company reported a net loss of 8 million (or 98 cents a share), while overall book comps decreased 1.4 percent for the quarter (as compared to 4.5 percent a year ago) helped by the strong sales of the 50 Shades series as well as digital books and accessories, but affected by “book signings and promotional events taking place during the same quarter of the prior fiscal year.”
Release

Filed Under: Booksellers, Earnings Reports, Free, International News, New Imprints, Personnel

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login

Forgot Password Quick Pass User Login
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

  • Authors Write An Open Letter to Publishers Against AI July 1, 2025 Lit Hub
  • Pearson and Google Partner on AI Tools June 27, 2025 Press Release
  • Author of "Life as We Knew It," Among 76 Books of "Complex Stories for Young Adults" Susan Beth Pfeffer Dies at 77 June 26, 2025 NYT
  • Why Man Not Read Fiction We Think Should? IDK -- Let's Ask A Tourist Bookstore June 26, 2025 NYT
  • Baseball Writer Scott Miller Dies at 62 June 24, 2025 NY Post
  • Accusations of Plagiarism, AI Use, and Bullying on BookTok June 23, 2025 NBC News
  • Larry Gagosian Visits His Store, BookHampton: "I just want the store to look more serious" June 23, 2025 Curbed
  • TikTok's 8th Note Press Is Shutting Down, Returning Rights to Authors June 21, 2025 NYT/Bookseller
  • Researchers Find That Newer Meta AI Models Have Memorized More of Popular Books Like Harry Potter June 20, 2025 Ars Technica
  • David Steinberger Interviews James Daunt on the Open Book Podcast June 20, 2025 Open Road
Publishers Marketplace logo

Contact Us

News

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Report News
  • Discuss
  • Classifieds
  • Rights Offerings

Deals

  • Report A Deal

Books

  • Buzz Books

Jobs

  • Job Board
  • Privacy Policy Terms of Use