Barnes & Noble has appointed Ronald D. Boire, currently president & chief executive officer of Sears Canada, as ceo of its retail business, effective September 8. Boire will succeed Michael Huseby who — as announced last week — will become executive chairman of Barnes & Noble Education once the company is formally spun off as a separate public company. Boire, who earlier served as evp, global merchandise manager for Best Buy, is expected to join the board of directors for the retail division. Huseby remains on the board of BN, Inc. until the split, after which Education will have its own separate […]
Archives for July 2015
People, Etc.
Kelly Bowen has joined Arcadia Publishing and the History Press as director of marketing and corporate communications. She was previously publicity director at Algonquin Books. Springer Nature (the newly combined Springer + Macmillan Science and Education) has created a new policy & external relations team led by evp Eric Merkel-Sobotta, and a combined communications under evp Joyce Lorigan. Both will report to ceo Derk Haank. Awards David Hackett Fischer won the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The $100,000 award will be presented at the Museum & Library’s annual gala on November 7.
July’s Best from Amazon and iBooks
Indie Next No. 1 pick for July The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck makes both the Amazon and iBooks “best books of July” lists as well. (Barnes & Noble abandoned monthly lists some time ago — but they did roll out their revamped web site on Tuesday, with some downtime.) Amazon and iBooks both recommend: Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates Confession of the Lioness, Mia Couto Vendetta, James Neff Bull Mountain, Brian Panowich The rest of Amazon‘s top picks: Circling the Sun, Paula McLain Speak, Louisa Hall The Hand That Feeds You, A. J. Rich The Last Pilot, […]