Ingram announced on Thurday that it has completed the acquisition of Perseus’ distribution business. First announced at the beginning of March (after a cancelled attempt in 2014), will combine the Perseus client service businesses, which have 600 publisher clients through Perseus Distribution, Consortium, Publishers Group West, and Legato, and their distribution facility in Jackson, TN, with Ingram Publisher Services. “We’re delighted to officially welcome associates and clients of Perseus’ distribution businesses to Ingram,” Ingram Content Group chairman and ceo John Ingram said in the announcement. “Ingram’s center of gravity is shifting to one that is more focused on providing comprehensive […]
Archives for March 2016
May Indie Next List
We already noted that Elizabeth Church’s The Atomic Weight of Love was the ABA’s Indie Next No. 1 pick for May, but now the full list has been released. And it includes 6 books already featured in our spring/summer Buzz Books free ebook and available for you to start reading now (asterisked): The Mirror Thief, by Martin Seay Everyone Brave Is Forgiven,* by Chris Cleave Redemption Road, by John Hart Everybody’s Fool, by Richard Russo Britt-Marie Was Here, by Fredrik Backman Mothering Sunday: A Romance, by Graham Swift LaRose,* by Louise Erdrich Julia Reed’s South: Spirited Entertaining and High-Style Fun All […]
People, Etc.
Theresa Collier will join Artisan as senior publicist & associate marketing manager on April 1. Previously she was a publicist at Bloomsbury. Alexandra Primiani has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as publicist. She was previously in the publicity department at Riverhead. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Imre Kertesz, 86, died Thursday at his home in Budapest. The LA Times announced its new roster of critics-at-large, featuring 10 writers who “have beautiful voices, brilliant minds, critical insights and strong opinions.” They are Marlon James, Laila Lalami, John Scalzi, Susan Straight, Alexander Chee, Viet Thanh Nguyen, David Kipen, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Rebecca […]
People, Etc.
ICM has promoted nine of its agents to partner, including literary agent Alexandra Machinist, who joined the agency in 2014. Adriana Rizzo will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as vp, marketing on April 6. Previously she was senior director, marketing at ESPN. In addition, Maire Gorman will take on the new role of svp, sales, while Laurie Brown moves up to svp, associate trade group publisher and business development. At McGraw-Hill Professional, Knox Huston has been promoted to executive editor. Awards The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize was awarded to Susan Southard for NAGASAKI: Life After Nuclear War (Viking) while the […]
Briefs: More James Patterson Library Grants; DRM-Free Star Trek eBooks; and More
For the second year in a row, James Patterson will award $1.75 million in grants (of $1,000 to $10,000) on a rolling basis throughout the year to school libraries. Once again the initiative is run in partnership with Scholastic Reading Club. Aligned with the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, Pocket Books has announced the release of more than 700 tie-in novels and novelizations in DRM-free ebook editions. Pocket president Louise Burke says in the release, “We’re excited to re-introduce many classic stories and to enable discovery and the ease of purchase that DRM-free provides.” New visitors to the site will be eligible for a […]
People, Etc.
At Simon & Schuster, Bob Bender has been promoted to vp, executive editor. In addition, Jofie Ferrari-Adler and Ben Loehnen also move up to executive editor. Brendan Curry has been appointed to the newly created role of vp, trade sales and marketing at Norton. Curry, who has been with Norton since 2001, most recently as senior editor, will oversee the “smooth integration and synthesis” of trade sales, marketing, and publicity. Ian Delaney will join Chronicle Books as indie trade sales coordinator on April 6. Previously, Ian was the sales and marketing manager at McSweeney’s. At Booklist, Keir Graff has been […]