Jason Wells has joined Rodale Children’s as associate publisher, director of marketing and publicity. Most recently he was vp, marketing and publicity at Simon & Schuster Children’s, after 14 years at Abrams Children’s. Frank Radell has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as sales representative for the trade division’s office and school supply channel. He was previously at Norwood House Press. Author Brian Aldiss, called the “Grand Old Man of British science fiction” by the Guardian, died on Saturday, one day after marking his 92nd birthday. (19th August) after celebrating his 92nd birthday the previous day. Bookselling Toad Hall bookstore in Rockport, MA, […]
Archives for August 2017
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Pauline Riccius has joined HarperCollins Nordic in the newly created position of sales director starting October 2. She is currently sales and marketing director and deputy ceo for Verbum. Laura Leichum has been hired as the University of Chicago Press’s first director of intellectual property. Most recently she was digital publishing & rights manager and intellectual property manager at Georgetown University Press. Former publishing director at HarperCollins in Australia and New Zealand, and recently book scout for Lingo Pictures, Shona Martyn has returned to Fairfax Media as editor of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Spectrum magazine. Sixteen of the 17 members of the President’s […]
Measured Trade Print and eBook Units Near Flat In First Half
NPD Bookscan posted a headline report on book sales for the first half of 2017, with the trends of the last couple of years continuing: Print sales continue to rise modestly, through online and book-focused stores, pretty much balanced out by declines in ebook sales. Through outlets tracked by NPD Bookscan, print book sales for the first 6 months of 2017 were 311 million units, up 2.6 percent from 303 million in 2016. Their retail and club channel, dominated by Amazon and chain bookstores, was up 4 percent, as mass merchandisers and others continued to fall, down 8 percent. eBook […]
Bookselling: Store Openings; Target Pairs with BN College
Today is the grand opening in Memphis, TN for the space formerly occupied by The Booksellers at Laurelwood, taken over and brought back to life as Novel, with a consortium of 27 local owners. Former employees of the Barnes & Noble in Forest Hills Queens that closed, Holly Nikodem, Vina Castillo and Natalie Noboa, expect to open a 700-square-foot store in September in Kew Gardens, Kew & Willow Books. Owner of The Doylestown Bookshop in Doylestown, PA Glenda Childs will open a second store nearby in September, The Lahaska Bookshop. Matthew Irving and Allison Krzanowski are finalizing a lease for […]
Milo Responds In Revised Complaint
Attorneys for Milo Yiannopoulos responded to Simon & Schuster’s motion to dismiss his lawsuit against the publisher with a revised version of the original complaint. Most relevantly, the new reply pokes at S&S’s contention that after serving their termination letter, the author “accepted the [signing advance] payment without protest, thereby sealing the accord and satisfaction and barring this lawsuit as a matter of centuries-old law.” Yiannopoulos notes the payment was accepted on or about January 18, when “there was no existing dispute between the parties” and could not “be deemed to be in ‘satisfaction’ of any dispute because none then existed.” No new […]
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Kathryn Little has been promoted to director of marketing for Macmillan Children’s. Madeleine Vasaly is leaving Quarto after five years with the company, most recently as associate acquisitions editor, to pursue freelance editing. Liza Darnton has joined Amazon Crossing, as senior editor. Previously was a freelance editor specializing in memoir and biography and editor at The Penguin Press. Director of the University of Washington Press Nicole Mitchell began her one-year term as president of the Association of American University Presses in June, just announced. Paul Harrington has joined academic publisher Berghahn Books as US sales manager.