At Crown Publishing, Diana Baroni has been promoted to senior vice president and editor in chief of Harmony Books and Rodale Books. Doris Cooper becomes senior vice president and editor in chief of Clarkson Potter, and Lorena Jones moves up to senior vice president and editor in chief of Ten Speed Press. Kaiya Muniz has joined the national accounts children’s sales team at Simon & Schuster. She was previously children’s national account sales associate at Hachette. Scholastic Trade announced a number of promotions: Vanessa Han has been promoted to senior designer at Klutz; Kim Rogers to associate product editor at Klutz; Nick Thomas to senior editor, Arthur A. Levine Books; Kait Feldman to editor, Arthur […]
Archives for February 2019
February Bookseller Picks
Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for Feburary is The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo and their Featured Debut is The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. The rest of the list: Underground, by Will Hunt The Unwinding of the Miracle, by Julie Yip-Williams Early Riser, by Jasper Fford Sounds Like Titanic, by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman The City in the Middle of the Night, by Charlie Jane Anders The Lost Man, by Jane Harper The Age of Light, by Whitney Scharer Good Kids, Bad City, by Kyle Swenson Apple Books also chose the Michaelides, Scharer, and Kindman, as well as: Black Leopard, Red Wolf, […]
Amazon’s Stock Falls On Decelerating Growth
Amazon reported fourth quarter results Thursday afternoon, and after a run up before the report, shares fell more than 4 percent in the first 30 minutes of trading on Friday. The market’s sour reaction was based on tepid guidance: The company currently expects Q1 sales growth of between only 10 percent and 18 percent compared to Q1 2018. As well, cfo Brian Olsavsky told investors on yesterday’s conference call that investment was likely to increase compared to last year. Fourth quarter sales were $72.4 billion, a 20 percent increase over the same period last year, and net income increased to […]