In the UK, former president and coo of Parragon Paul Gregory will become chief executive of Bonnier UK’s Igloo Books Group, on September 11, reporting to Perminder Mann. Abby Ranger, formerly senior editor for HarperCollins Children’s has left to launch editorial freelance business Abby Ranger Editorial. Picks The Costco Pennie’s Pick for July is Kiss Carlo by Adriana Trigiani. Bookselling Miami’s Bookstore in the Grove, which was headed for closure earlier in June, remains open as owner Felice Dubin is “in discussions with a potential new owner to take over the store.” Most inventory is on sale. Penguin Random House’s Signature Views posted a five-minute “mini-doc” shot as […]
Archives for June 2017
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Marlene Kelly has been promoted to senior marketing manager for Amazon Publishing. Meg Reid has been promoted to director of Hub City Press effective July 1. Founder and current director Betsy Teter will retain the title of editor and director of development. Also starting July 1, Hub City Press titles will be distributed by Publishers Group West. Alongside his attorney and his existing representation for publishing, novelist John Irving signed with Gersh Agency for theatrical representation. Antonia Byatt will serve as interim director of English PEN. The Guardian conducted an informal study investigating the gender gap in UK book publishing, “following up anecdotal […]
PubNet and PubEasy US Sold to MVB In Germany
NPD has sold the Pubnet and PubEasy ordering services, which they acquired from Nielsen as part of the Bookscan group at the end of 2016, to Germany’s MVB Marketing, a subsidiary of the German Publisher and Bookseller Association. The transfer is effective July 1, and the services will comprise a new, New York-based division, MVB US Inc. Ted Hill will serve as general manager. He has been an industry consultant through his THA Consulting. The current technology for the ordering systems is licensed until the end of 2018, after which, the announcement indicates, it will be replaced with MVB’s own platform. […]
Crown Relaunches Currency
Crown is launching what they are calling a new imprint focused on business books, bringing back an old moniker first used by Doubleday, called Currency, led by Tina Constable. Currency will take over from and expand upon the Crown Business line, which will be “retired over time.” Forthcoming Crown Business books will be published under the new Currency banner, and backlist reprints will be rebranded as they are reprinted. (Crown Business is the successor of what started at Doubleday as Currency, turned into Doubleday Business, and then was briefly Broadway Business.) Crown Publishing Group president Maya Mayjee writes: “Currency will […]
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Carolyn Savarese has joined Kneerim & Williams as an affiliated agent. She was group vice president for global licensing, international sales and marketing, contracts and legal affairs for Perseus Books Group, where she worked for 18 years. She will look for “authors of influence and books that matter — on subjects personal or political, historical or scientific, cultural or culinary.” Christopher Goff, senior vice president and general counsel for HarperCollins will retire on September 30 after 28 years with the company. Bill Adams, currently senior vice president and associate general counsel at Penguin Random House, will succeed him as general counsel worldwide. The general […]
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At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, editorial director, lifestyle Deb Brody has been promoted to vp, editor-in-chief. (She joined the company a little under a year ago.) In her new role she “will expand her oversight and editorial work across the lifestyle and general interest teams,” adding oversight for Alex Littlefield and a to-be-hired senior editor. Publisher Bruce Nichols notes that the lifestyle group has broadened its program and “there has been increasing overlap with general interest nonfiction,” so “the two groups will work together more closely.” Helen Atsma remains in charge of the fiction program as editorial director, fiction, and senior team members Rick […]