Former editor-in-chief and creative director of the now-defunct LA Times Sunday magazine Nancie Clare and Rip Georges launch their new Kickstarter-backed Noir Magazine in Apple’s App store today (with additional platforms to follow). It’s an iPad magazine for the mystery, thriller, and true crime genres “in all mediums–a thoroughly modern, multi-media immersion into their books, TV, films, graphic novels, and video games.” Megan Abbott is editor at large and many other well-known authors are on the board of advisors and will contribute. The first issue includes an excerpt of Suspect by Robert Crais; Lee Child on bringing Reacher to the […]
Archives for December 2012
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At Balzer + Bray, Sara Sargent has been promoted to associate editor. In the UK, Joel Rickett has been promoted to publisher of Viking UK and Portfolio UK. Ruth Alltimes will move to Harper Children’s UK as publishing director, fiction in January, reporting to fiction and licensed properties director, Rachel Denwood. She has been publishing director of the fiction list at Macmillan Children’s UK. Patti Smith discusses with Billboard her plans for a few books she is working on “simultaneously,” including her next memoir. She says it “is in more of the ‘Just Kids’ vein and even in the similar time period, […]
Penguin Settles with the DOJ, Removing A Merger Hurdle and Answering A Merger Question
On Wednesday afternoon, the Department of Justice announced it had reached a settlement with Penguin, “one of the largest book publishers in the United States,” of the ebook pricing lawsuit that Penguin had previously vowed to litigate in court. (Indeed, in April, Penguin Group ceo John Makinson had defiantly underscored that “alone among the publishers party to the investigations that resulted in today’s announcements, we have held no settlement discussions with the DOJ or the states.”) The settlement, which again requires the approval by Judge Denise Cote of New York’s Southern District Court, imposes the same basics terms as the approved settlements between […]
Obama Campaign Digital Director to Address Publishers
The digital director of President Obama’s re-election campaign Teddy Goff, whose highly-successful social media and digital marketing strategies were credited as an important part of the president’s victory in November, is the latest high-profile speaker to join the roster at January’s big Digital Book World conference. Goff’s keynote will share best practices advice on micro-targeting and social media marketing in a way that that can be utilized by publishers and authors, and he will detail the campaign’s techniques in greater detail in a second breakout session. Coming up soon after the holidays, the main DBW event takes place January 16 […]
People, Etc.
At William Morrow/Avon, Tessa Woodward has been promoted to editor. Anne Hoppe will join Clarion Books as senior executive editor on January 23. Previously she was executive editor at Harper Children’s. Esi Sogah will join Kensington as senior editor on January 2. She was most recently associate editor at Avon. Midpoint will take over distribution in the US for gift, reference and cookbook publisher New Holland UK. They were previously distributed by Sterling. (Midpoint already distributes New Holland Australia.)
Imprints: Amazon Adds Inspirational Line, and More
The latest Amazon publishing imprint, Grand Harbor Press, comes from the company’s Brilliance Audio division. The new line aims to “present uplifting and thought-provoking works embracing a range of philosophies and spiritual thought.” The company sees it as a natural complement to their core audio business: “motivational speakers in the inspirational category are a natural fit for the audio format,” says president and publisher Mark Pereira. “Fans and followers want to hear their favorite author guide them during their self-improvement experience.” Also, Brilliance already distributes print editions of the Amazon Publishing genre imprints. Associate publisher Gary Krebs will lead acquisitions […]