Recent start-up Catapult announced an agreement to acquire and merge with Counterpoint Press, which comprises the Counterpoint and Soft Skull imprints. Jack Shoemaker and Dan Smetanka will continue to run editorial for the acquired lines and Megan Fishmann will remain in place as director of marketing and publicity, with Catapult’s publisher Andy Hunter taking over as Counterpoint’s publisher. The sale caps the long career of Counterpoint ceo Charlie Winton, who will retire from daily operations while serving as an editor at large. Soft Skull Press will return to New York, led editorially by Yuka Igarashi. Susan Reich and David Lamb of Book Advisors represented Counterpoint in the deal. […]