At Amazon Publishing, Katie Finch has been named director of strategic programs. Tilo Eckardt will return to Random House Germany to take charge of Heyne’s hardcover and paperback fiction list, reporting to Ulrich Genzler. He has spent the last four year as an agent with Mohrbooks, and was previously editor-in-chief of Heyne’s hardcover imprints. At Harper Collins, Jennifer Murphy has been promoted to marketing coordinator. Sky Pony Press has promoted Alison Weiss to editor-in-chief. At Chronicle, Jaime Wong has been promoted to marketing manager, children’s. Author of Falling Angel William Hjortsberg, 76, died on April 22. He was the author of eight novels […]
Archives for April 2017
Amazon Gains In First Quarter, Changes Revenue Reporting Lines
Amazon reported first quarter sales on Thursday afternoon, with net revenues rising 23 percent to $35.7 billion in the first quarter, compared with $29.1 billion in 2016. Operating income was down modestly at $1.05 billion, but net income rose to $724 million — compared to $513 million a year ago, because of lower income taxes. As usual, AWS (Amazon Web Services) on its own generated most of the operating income, at $890 million. The big news is that the company recategorized some of their revenue breakouts. Unfortunately, they no longer quantify the slower-growing media categories that included books, ebooks, and digital audio. Indicative of the […]
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Sarah Hochman, editor-in-chief of Blue Rider Press and Plume, has decided to leave the publisher, as of May 10. She has been at Blue Rider since its founding in 2011. Andrea Fleck-Nisbet joined Ingram Content Group as director of content acquisition sales, reporting to Kelly Gallagher and based in New York. Previously, she was executive director of digital strategy and operations for Workman Publishing. Holly Root, an agent with Waxman Leavell Literary Agency for the past 10 years, will launch Los Angeles-based Root Literary on May 1. Agent Taylor Haggerty will join Root at the new agency. Distribution Ingram Publisher Services will distribute the Fodor’s […]
Barnes & Noble Promotes Parneros to CEO
Barnes & Noble is promoting chief operating officer Demos Parneros to ceo, with Len Riggio remaining as chairman of the board. In their awkward way the company said as much in March, when Riggio didn’t have any good answers to the state of the ceo search — if there really was a search at all — but praised their “spectacular new chief operating officer” calling Parneros “certainly a top candidate for the ceo position.” Parneros was hired in November, shortly before the previous coo Jamie Carey left the company. In the press release, Riggio says, “It has become abundantly clear over the last five […]
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Rich Thomas will join HarperCollins Children’s as vice president and publishing director, reporting to Kate Jackson. He was most recently associate publisher and editorial director for Disney Publishing Worldwide. At HarperCollins Children’s, he will lead the Festival, I Can Read, and licensing programs. Jane Starr Literary Scouts has been appointed US scout for Vigmostad & Bjoerke in Norway. Awards Granta has announced its Best of Young American Novelists list, released with a special issue every ten years. The list includes 21 names selected this year by Patrick deWitt, A.M. Homes, Kelly Link, Ben Marcus and Granta’s editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing. Among the winners […]
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The “driving force” behind Scotland’s Freight Books, co-founder and director Adrian Searle, has left the company. He said: “Following differences over strategic direction, and after six years as publisher at Freight Books, and eight years as a director of Freight Design, with much regret I have decided to leave the business I own jointly and resign as a company director to pursue other interests.” Lena Khidritskaya Little has joined Little, Brown as assistant director of publicity; previously, she was with NatGeo Books. John Glynn has joined Hanover Square Press as editor. Previously, he was associate editor at Scribner. Author of bestseller Zen […]