John Wiley announced Thursday afternoon an agreement to pay $120 million in cash to acquire Santa Clara, CA-based publishing-software company Atypon. Through their Literatum platform for journal delivery, Atypon serves the STM and scholarly markets with software that “gives publishers direct control over how their content is displayed, promoted and monetized on the web.” Privately-held Atypon is reported to have had sales of over $31 million in 2015. Wiley will run Atypon as a separate business unit, promising that “the data and plans from each of Atypon’s clients will remain sequestered and behind firewalls.” Atypon founder and ceo Georgios Papadopoulos will continue to lead the business, reporting to Wiley ceo […]
Archives for August 2016
People: NYT’s Paul Adds Responsibility for Daily Critics, Industry Coverage
NYT Book Review editor Pamela Paul will add oversight for the daily book reviews as well as Alexandra Alter’s publishing industry coverage, managing editor Dean Baquet announced to staff on Wednesday: “It will be Pamela’s job to think about how our coverage should change and, of course, how it should not change. (We will, for instance, maintain our Sunday Book Review. It is hard to imagine the paper without it.) Above all, we believe we have a significant opportunity to expand the audience for our books coverage.” Blaming the previous separation on a time “when the paper was divided according to […]
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Emma Dries has joined Ecco as an assistant editor. She was an editorial assistant at Knopf Doubleday. At Pegasus Books, Katie McGuire has been promoted to assistant editor. Kristin Dulaney has joined Macmillan Children’s as executive director of subsidiary rights. She was at Little Brown Children’s. Michelle Yandre joined BlueBottleBiz recently as PR manager. Longtime Ten Speed Press editor Veronica “Fuzzy” Randall, 61, died August 12 from cancer. Randall joined Ten Speed Press in 1990 and was senior editor upon her retirement in 2009. Publisher Aaron Wehner notes, “She had a great sense of humor, an infectious laugh, and a remarkable way with words. Fuzzy […]
Barnes & Noble Fires CEO Boire; Will Try Again
After the close of the market on Tuesday, Barnes & Noble announced that the board of directors “determined that [CEO Ron] Boire was not a good fit for the organization and that it was in the best interests of all parties for him to leave the company.” As a result, executive chairman Len Riggio will postpone his planned retirement this September “until a later date.” The undistinguished tenure of Boire lasted a little less than a year. In that time, the company failed to recover from the botched relaunch of their website and continue to lose online sales. They also failed to […]
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Pocket senior editor Abby Zidle will move over to Gallery Books Group marketing team as associate director of marketing. Shelby Howick has been promoted to associate publicist in the Grand Central publicity group. In obituaries, novelist and son of John Steinbeck, Thomas Steinbeck died last Thursday, at age 72. And founder of Hugo Books bookstore in Newburyport, MA Robert “Bob” W. Hugo, also 72, died on July 27. Awards James Shapiro‘s 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear and Benjamin Markovits‘s novel You Don’t Have to Live Like This won the UK’s two James Tait Black prizes. Kindle Unlimited Amazon’s retrospective payout allocation for […]
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Peter Knapp has rejoined Park Literary Group as an agent, focusing on middle grade and young adult fiction. Previously he was an agent at New Leaf Literary & Media. At Harper Christian, Becky Monds has been promoted to acquisitions editor for fiction, and Karli Jackson moves up to associate acquisitions editor. PEN America is bringing back their PEN/Nabokov Award — last awarded in 2008 — now providing a $50,000 prize “to a writer born or residing outside the United States for an outstanding body of work over a sustained career.” The organization’s first award focused on international authors, organization president Andrew Solomon adds in the […]