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March 15, 2019
By Erin Somers

Ben Ball will join Simon & Schuster Australia in the newly created role of publishing director, Scribner. He will report to managing director Dan Ruffino, leading the recently launched Australian arm of the imprint. He was previously with Penguin Group Australia for 12 years, most recently as publishing director, literary.

Keith Riegert will rejoin Ulysses Press, as evp and publisher on April 1. He worked in marketing analytics at Hachette Book Group for the past two years. Bryce Willett is stepping down as evp, but will continue to serve as a consultant for the press. Casie Vogel has been promoted to director of editorial & acquisitions; Bridget Thoreson becomes director of marketing & operations; and Claire Sielaff moves up to to acquisitions editor.

Milena Brown becomes assistant director of marketing at Atria, moving over from the publicity department.

Roxanne Jones has joined Harper Collins as senior publicist for MIRA, Park Row, and Hanover Square Press. She was formerly a publicist at Berkley.
At Insight Editions, former svp of sales and marketing for Weldon Owen Amy Kaneko has taken on the new role of packaging, custom, and oroprietary Sales for Weldon Owen, Insight Editions, and iSeek, based in Boulder, CO. Trade sales will now be handled by Julie Hamilton.
Natalie Kimber has been promoted to literary agent at the Rights Factory’s New York office.

Christian Lorenzten‘s Harper’s Magazine cover story on “the fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm” is live now. The real news is his acknowledgment that “my contract to review books at New York magazine was dropped” around October 2018. “I had been told that although its books coverage would be expanding, what I did—book reviews—had ‘little value.'” The magazine announced that expansion of books coverage in September, and books editor Boris Kachka said the planning started in June based on reader surveys. But NYM’s hiring of male critics has been controversial as well, highlighted by Rebecca Traister in the magazine’s own pages in November 2017.

Announcements
Asteri Holdings has acquired “the digital assets” of DK’s Prima Games,which the publisher said last November they would discontinue in spring 2019 following a “significant decline” in the video game guide sector. What that announcement means, we were told after querying, is that Asteri acquired the Prima Games website.

RBMedia’s UK division WF Howes has an audiobook product and distribution deal with publisher Head of Zeus, expected to yield 100 audio titles a year.

Filed Under: Audio, Free, Personnel

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