Adrienne Szpyrka will join Running Press Kids as associate editor on July 11. Previously, she was editor at Sky Pony Press. At Macmillan, Jonathan Hollingsworth has been promoted to ebook channel associate director. Mark Irwin has joined Insight Editions as senior editor. Previously he was a trading card brand manager at Upper Deck and founded his own startup, Creative Militia. Aditya Otiv has joined Open Road as social media manager. Prior to joining Open Road, Aditya was junior connections associate at Starcom MediaVest Group. Editorial director at Johns Hopkins University Press Greg Britton was presented with the Association of American University Presses’ […]
Archives for June 2016
Hachette Book Group Relocates 52 Jobs
Hachette Book Group announced changes to several divisions, related to the Perseus Books Group acquisition and warehouse expansion in Lebanon, IN, saying those developments provided “an opportunity to reevaluate where certain functions of HBG’s business are situated in order to make the most efficient use of the many offices we now have.” As a result, 52 job functions are being consolidated and transferred to different HBG locations. It’s not clear yet how many current employees will lose their jobs as a result of the reorganization, and how many will relocate and stay with the company. Spokesperson Sophie Cottrell said, “We value the talent and […]
People, Etc.
Julie Stevenson will join Lippincott Massie & McQuilkin as an agent to expand her list of literary and upmarket fiction, narrative nonfiction, YA and children’s books. Previously she was an agent at Waxman Leavell and Sobel Weber Associates. She will divide her time between New York and her hometown of Missoula, Montana. Alexandra Poreda has joined Other Press as associate editor. She was previously a development editor at Cambridge University Press. Kat Brzozowski has moved from Thomas Dunne Books over to Macmillan’s Swoon Reads and Feiwel and Friends as an editor. Former NBN vp of sales Michael Sullivan, 69, died on Sunday following an extended illness. CEO […]
Amazon Picks Lab Girl As Their Favorite Book So Far This Year
Amazon posted their annual mid-year “best books of the year so far” lists on Tuesday. Topping their picks is Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl (their April “featured debut”). The rest of their top 20 (including 6 titles previewed in our first Buzz Books sampler of the year*) overall features: The Girls, by Emma Cline Before the Fall, by Noah Hawley* When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi The Gene, by Siddhartha Mukherjee Barkskins, by Annie Proulx Valiant Ambition, by Nathaniel Philbrick* Grunt, by Mary Roach The Nest, by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney* The Fireman, by Joe Hill* LaRose, by Louise Erdrich* Girls & Sex, by Peggy Orenstein Evicted, by Matthew Desmond I’m Thinking of […]
Barnes & Noble Ends Fiscal Year On A Loss
Barnes & Noble reported fiscal fourth quarter sales after the close of the market on Wednesday. Sales fell $33 million (or 3.6 percent) to $877 million in the quarter. Retail sales fell $17 million — even as physical book unit sales as measured by Nielsen Bookscan continue to rise, as Amazon gains market share at BN’s partial expenses, and Nook sales, which don’t have all that much further to fall, declined $10.5 million, to $42 million for the quarter. Same-store sales were down 0.8 percent in the quarter, and the company continued to blame “store closures and lower online sales.” […]
Briefs: Empresa’s New Books Division; Amazon Updates Kindle; and More
Czech media conglomerate Empresa has launched a books division, Publishing Perspectives reports. The company released its first three titles this month and expects to publish 15 titles by the end of 2016. Empresa already owns an online bookstore which sells more than 170,000 titles by over 4,000 publishers. Amazon released its newest version of the 6″ Kindle, retailing for $99.99 (or $79.99 with ads) and weighing 5.7 ounces. The new Kindle features 4 GB of memory, built-in Bluetooth for audio support, and up to four weeks of battery life on a single charge. Separately, Amazon announced its latest fulfillment center […]