Courtney Code has been promoted to associate editor at Abrams. Departing Orion group publisher Jon Wood will join Rogers, Coleridge and White as an agent in January. At Simon & Schuster, Allison Stegeland has been promoted to the newly created role of sales associate in the international sales channel. Henna Cho has been promoted to sales coordinator in the e-audio sales group. In Germany, Hans-Peter Ubleis, who had been publisher at Droemer Knaur for nearly 20 years, will return to Holtzbrinck in an advisory role. In the newly created position, he will focus on getting German authors published by Droemer Knaur, Kiepenheuer & […]
Archives for September 2018
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Brittani Hilles and Carla Bruce-Eddings have both joined Algonquin and Algonquin Children’s as senior publicists. Hilles was most recently a publicist at St. Martin’s, while Bruce-Eddings was with Riverhead. Taylor Maccoux has been promoted to assistant editor at Sourcebooks Jabberwocky. Samantha Allen joins Chronicle Books as subsidiary rights manager. Previously she was subsidiary rights manager at Simon & Schuster Children’s. Britt Siess has joined Martin Literary & Media Management as an associate literary agent. She was in the sales division at Quarto. Jill Corcoran is leaving Transatlantic Agency to become director, published licensing sales at Smithsonian Enterprises starting October 1. Corcoran’s current clients will be represented […]
Clean Slate at CBS: Moonves Out with No Severance, Litigation Settled, New Directors Named
After the New Yorker published an article on Sunday in which they said another six women had accused Les Moonves of sexual harassment and/or assault in incidents from the 80s and 90s, his career at CBS came to quick end. Rather than the reported negotiations from late last week that Moonves could depart with $100 million in severance (down from the $180 million provided for in his contract), now he leaves with no guarantees — and Moonves and CBS will “donate $20 million to one or more organizations that support the #MeToo movement and equality for women in the workplace.” […]
Barnes & Noble Pushes Back Against Shareholder’s Sale Wishes
Barnes & Noble’s stock was trading 28 cents down from Friday’s close at 10:40 Monday morning, a loss of more than 5%. On Friday, the stock had risen 75 cents a share, a gain of almost 16.5 percent, on investor Richard Schottenfeld’s expansive declaration of his hopes for a sale of the company in a recent SEC filing, per our report Friday morning. But the company pushed back on those wishes, as well the implication that Schottenfeld had discussed a possible sale with company chairman Len Riggio. A spokesperson declared, “Barnes & Noble is not engaged in a process to sell the […]
AAP Trade Sales Look Up A Little In the First Half — But Only Because Last Year’s Data Was Wrong
The AAP reported monthly StatShot data for June as well as summary data for the first six months of the year and as is often the case — though you never read this in other accounts — the most notable element is the changes in their 2017 comparison data. (Our brief reminder: Every time the AAP reports data for a new month, they include revised, final data for that same month from a year ago. While that historical data should be pretty stable, we find that often there are some big revisions, which the organization does not call out.) What […]
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Michael Signorelli, formerly senior editor at Holt, has joined Gotham Ghostwriters as managing director of the Bookwriting Group. Ingram Content Group chief content officer Phil Ollila will be the honoree at the Goddard Riverside Book Fair Gala on October 30. Amanda R. Cecil has been promoted to director, digital content & social media marketing for Barnes & Noble. Erica Stone has joined Random House Children’s as school & library marketing coordinator. She was previously the school partnership & offsite sales assistant at Greenlight Bookstore Former chief executive of Bonnier Publishing Richard Johnson‘s memoir releases Saturday in the UK, and the Bookseller has an advance […]