Larry Kirshbaum, 69, will leave his position as publisher of Amazon’s US trade publishing imprints on January 17, roughly two and a half years after joining the company, as first reported this morning by Shelf Awareness. Since that report, Amazon has officially confirmed what Shelf had “learned” and supplied the departure date. The company said, “We’re sorry to see him go, and wish him the best of luck as he returns to life as a literary agent.” Editor-in-chief for Amazon’s adult imprints Daphne Durham has already been assigned Kirshbaum’s responsibilities as publisher. Additional elements of their unsourced story — “the […]
