Gabrielle Gantz joins Palgrave as associate director of publicity. She was previously director of publicity at McSweeney’s. Mia Amato has joined Start Publishing as marketing director, overseeing all print and digital marketing of the recently acquired Cleis Press and Viva Editions imprints. Her background in digital channel marketing includes stints at Harlequin, Quirk Books, McGraw-Hill and Kensington. Firebrand Technologies has hired Satvinder Virdi as senior UK relationship manager, based in London, with responsibility for sales, projects and support of UK and European-based publishing clients. He was on the project management and technology operations team at Random House. Also in Europe, the company’s NetGalley has launched […]
Archives for April 2015
People, Etc.
Jeanne-Marie Hudson joins Berkley/NAL this week as vp, director of marketing. She was previously senior director, marketing communications & audience development at St. Martin’s Press. At Putnam, Anna Romig has been promoted to assistant marketing manager. Bethany Bryan has joined Papercutz as associate editor. Previously she was social media manager for the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. At Scott Manning & Associates, Abigail Welhouse has been promoted to publicist. Awards Nominations for the Hugo Awards were announced over the weekend, with the winners to be named at Worldcon later this year. This year’s roster comes with no small amount of controversy, […]
German Giant Media-Saturn Looks to Build On Bankrupt Txtr
Some publishers were recently informed via email that Germany’s txtr, which filed for bankruptcy in late January, will be adopted as the ebook platform for the big consumer electronics retailing group Media-Saturn-Holding as of the beginning of April. (Described as the Best Buy of Germany and/or Europe, the group’s Media Markt, Saturn and Redcoon stores have annual sales of over 20 billion euros.) It’s a logical marriage of convenience, in that txtr was already working with MSH on their ebook plans. MSH is currently working to turn JUKE! — an established streaming music subscription service — into a much broader digital […]
People
May Chen has been promoted to executive editor at William Morrow/Avon. Scholastic announced new appointments across several imprints. At Scholastic Trade, Caitlin Friedman has been named vp, marketing, moving over from Scholastic Media, where she was vp, marketing & brand management. Colleen Prendergrast has also joined Scholastic as associate manager, licensed publishing. She was most recently rights coordinator at HarperCollins. At Klutz, Kristin Carder has been named designer, joining from Braid Creative, where she developed brands for small businesses. Vicky Eva has also joined Klutz as senior sourcing specialist. Previously she was a senior vendor account manager at One Kings Lane. […]
Alexander Tops May Indie Next List
Poet Elizabeth Alexander‘s memoir THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD is the ABA’s No. 1 Indie Next pick for May. The rest of the list features the following (including 5 books, asterisked, you can start reading right now in our free Buzz Books 2015 ebook): Pieces of My Mother, by Melissa Cistaro* The Given World, by Marian Palaia The World Is on Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse, by Joni Tevis The Daylight Marriage, by Heidi Pitlor Whispering Shadows, by Jan-Philipp Sendker The Book of Aron, by Jim Shepard Church of Marvels, by Leslie Parry* Girl at War, by Sara […]
European Commission Approves Macmillan Science/Springer Merger
The European Commission has approved the cashless merger between Holtzbrinck’s Macmillan Science and Education and Springer Science+Business Media, which was first announced back in January. After reviewing the joint venture proposal, the EC found that the two companies “overlap mainly in the market for the provision of academic publishing and, marginally, in the markets for scientific online databases and workflow tools, marketing and communication as well as publishing related services.” The Commission “concluded that the proposed acquisition would not raise competition concerns given the parties’ moderate combined market positions resulting from the proposed transaction and the presence of a number of strong players […]