Kim Anderson will re-join Chronicle Books as vice president of sales & marketing, overseeing the marketing, domestic sales, international sales, and subsidiary rights teams. Previously, she worked in the Chronicle Books sales department from 2003 to 2013, and has spent the past five years as a sales and marketing consultant for such companies as Insight Editions, Mrs. Grossman’s, becker&mayer, and Galison. Steve Marshall joined Ingram Content Group as vp, IT services. Prior to Ingram, Steve was the vice president of infrastructure at C&S Wholesale Grocers in Keene, NH. Claire McGinnis has been promoted to associate director of publicity at Riverhead. At Thames & […]
Archives for September 2018
AAP Celebrates Copyright and Freedom of Expression
The AAP (Association of American Publishers) held its annual meeting in the Penguin Random House Building on Thursday afternoon, using the occasion to underscore the organization’s new focus. As PRH ceo and current AAP chair explained, “We wanted to refocus AAP on two core priorities: Copyright protection, the publishers’ lifeblood, and…the value proposition of publishing for society…as well as our collective contribution to the economy.” AAP’s ceo Maria Pallante was hired with that focus in mind, “to lead in the areas of law and policy,” and she in turn emphasized the subtleties of enacting that mission. While “copyright is absolutely […]
AAP Sales Rebounded Some In July
As we have noted many times, AAP sales data can reflect significant swings from month to month, and that holds true for their just released July StatShot data. Following a soft June report (adult sales were down 5.7 percent and children’s/YA sales were down 10.7 percent), it makes sense that the July data swings the other way, with adult sales rising 11 percent and children’s/YA sales up 10.3 percent. Adult books gained across all print formats, with children’s gains coming mostly from hardcovers. From a broader view, July can be a particularly variable month as well, depending in large part on […]
People, Etc.
Eamon Dolan will join Simon & Schuster Publishing Group as vice president and executive editor starting October 1. Dolan was most recently with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he ran his own imprint, Eamon Dolan Books, which was shut down in July. Simon & Schuster president and publisher Jonathan Karp says, “Eamon will continue to do what he has done so brilliantly for years: Identify, edit, and publish some of the best writers and thinkers in the culture – authors whose works are relevant to understanding our times and how they are changing, and capable of being just as meaningful in the […]
Booker Shortlist Includes Two Graywolf Titles
Awards season starts to take shape with the release of the Booker Prize shortlist (with the winner to be named the week following the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 16). Esi Edugyan from Canada’s Washington Black (Knopf) is the only title in contention for more than one major fiction award this year, having just made the Giller longlist. Knopf said they are going back to press for a third printing of the book. Neither of the two nominated American authors — Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room (Scribner) and Richard Powers‘ The Overstory (Norton) — are on the National Book Awards longlist. But Graywolf Press is the forthcoming US publisher […]
Ian Buruma Leaves NYRB
Ian Buruma is leaving his position as editor of the New York Review of Books, confirmed Nicholas During, a publicist for the magazine. Buruma had succeeded the late co-founder Robert B. Silvers in May 2017. His exit follows the controversial publication online by the Review last week of an article written by Jian Ghomeshi, called Reflections from a Hashtag, and a subsequent interview Buruma gave to Slate’s Ian Chotiner, in which he defended his decision to publish the piece. (The print version of the issue has not landed yet.) Buruma commented to Dutch outlet Vrij Nederland, that he was not fired by […]