Recent Tweeter Jeff Bezos leaked himself on Monday afternoon. He wrote: “All-new, top of the line Kindle almost ready. 8th generation. Details next week.” Meanwhile, Amazon Prime members are being offered $30 to $50 off the three existing Kindle devices right now.
Archives for April 2016
People: Morin Promoted to CEO at Ingram
Ingram Content Group president and chief operating officer Shawn Morin has been promoted to president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. John Ingram “will continue to be active as chairman of the company.” Ingram says in the announcement, “Shawn is a proven leader, well-known across our industry, and he is certainly the right CEO as we write the next chapter in our company’s story. Ingram has experienced tremendous growth and transformation, particularly over the past few years. Shawn’s leadership, technology and engineering backgrounds, and passion for our business and our clients have helped make this evolution possible.” Ingram had taken back […]
People, Etc.
Olivia Taussig has joined Viking Penguin as publicist. Previously she was a publicist at Other Press. Yanni Kuznia has been promoted to managing editor and chief operating officer of Subterranean Press. The Savannah Book Festival has hired Kim Bockius-Suwyn as its new executive director. Rotraut Susanne Berner of Germany and Cao Wenxuan of China were named as the winners of the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Legal: No News on Authors Guild Appeal, As Publishers Mostly Lose Again V. Georgia State University
The Supreme Court was supposed to consider the Authors Guild’s petition to have the high court hear their appeal of the Google Books scanning case at last Friday’s Conference — but when orders from that Conference were announced on Monday morning, the Guild’s case was not on the list. Presumably, that means consideration was postponed to the Court’s next Conference, on April 15, though there is no official update to the case docket yet. In a separate, long-running case, Eleventh Circuit District Judge Orinda Evans once again found mostly in favor of Georgia State University over a group of academic publishers […]
HarperCollins Officially Expands in France, and More
It’s book fair time — as the Bologna Book Fair officially opens — so Harper Collins has announced another expanded international unit. This time it is the formation of Harper Collins France. Previously, Harlequin SA was a joint venture in France with Hachette Livre, but Harper Collins bought out their partner. They will continue to work with Hachette in an “ongoing partnership for distribution and sales.” (They bought out Mondadori’s share of Harlequin Mondadori in September 2015, and they ended their joint venture in Brazil with Record Publishing Group — pairing instead with Ediuoro Group, last August. The new business will continue to publish […]
Hachette, Ingram Close Deals to Buy Perseus Units
As expected, the sale of the Perseus Books Group’s two business lines — its publishing divisions to Hachette Book Group and its distribution business to Ingram — officially closed (on Friday for HBG, and on Thursday for Ingram). First announced at the beginning of March (after a cancelled attempt in 2014), the deals make Perseus’ nine publishing imprints made into a “major new publishing division” of Hachette under longtime Perseus executive Susan Weinberg, now svp, publisher of Perseus Books and a member of HBG’s executive management board. Ingram, in turn, will combine the Perseus client service businesses, which have 600 publisher clients […]