Alessandra Preziosi and Bethany Vinhateiro have both been promoted to senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s. Julius C. Jefferson Jr., section head of the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, has been elected president of the American Library Association. He will serve as president-elect for one year before becoming president at the 2020 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Awards In Australia, Vicki Laveau-Harvie‘s The Erratics won the Stella Prize, which celebrates women’s writing. Bookselling A new location of NYC’s McNally-Jackson has opened in The Shed, a new art and performance space at Hudson Yards. The […]
Archives for April 2019
Awards: Booker International Shortlist, and More
The Booker International announced its shortlist, with last year’s winner Olga Tokarczuk nominated again. Many of the titles are not published in the US yet, though Riverhead publishes two of the nominated authors. The full list: Celestial Bodies, by Jokha Alharthi (Sandstone Press) The Years, by Annie Ernaux (Seven Stories/Fitzcarraldo Editions) The Pine Islands, by Marion Poschmann (Serpent’s Tail) Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (forthcoming from Riverhead/Fitzcarraldo Editions) The Shape Of The Ruins, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Riverhead/MacLehose Press) The Remainder, by Alia Trabucco Zerán (forthcoming from Coffee House Press/And Other Stories) Barnes & […]
How the New Revenue Rules Affected Penguin Random House’s Sales and More Details
Pearson filed their annual 20-F report with the SEC last week, which includes an extensive set of financial statements for the Penguin Random House venture. Those financials are actually more detailed in some ways than what Bertelsmann releases, and give us additional insight into some important aspects of the company’s performance. Most significantly, Pearson details the exact effect of the new accounting rules for agency ebook sales on PRH’s performance. As you may recall, we explained that Bertelsmann’s application of the new revenue standard — under which they now count the full consumer price paid for ebooks in many instances, […]
Briefs: Dykstra Sues Over Darling Book, Bertelsmann Restructures Printing Group
Legal Former NY Mets player Lenny Dykstra has sued Ron Darling, his former teammate, as well as his publisher St. Martin’s in New York Supreme Court for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress. At issue is a passage in the just-published 108 Stitches: Loose Threads, Ripping Yarns, and the Darndest Characters from My Time in the Game. According to Darling’s book, Dykstra hurled racist comments at Boston Starter Oil Can Boyd while he warmed up for Game 3 of the 1986 World Series; Darling wrote, “the worst collection of taunts and insults I’d ever heard — worse, I’m betting, […]
People, Etc.
At McGraw-Hill, Donya Dickerson has been promoted to associate publisher of the business group, and Amy Li has been promoted to associate editor of the business group. Kate Meltzer has joined Roaring Brook Press as editor. She was formerly an editor at Penguin Children’s. Kirk Benshoff has joined First Second Books as art director. Previously, he was art director at Scholastic. Mary Altman has been promoted to senior editor, Sourcebooks Casablanca. Mary Duke has joined Chronicle Books as a marketing manager for children’s. Previously, she was marketing associate at Harper One. Pat Conte has joined Bear Manor Media as foreign […]
People, Etc.
Michael Gentile has been promoted to vice president, education sales and marketing, Penguin Random House, expanding his role to include oversight of education sales across all children’s and adult divisions. On the children’s side, he will report to to Felicia Frazier, senior vice president, children’s and education sales, and on the adult side to Kim Shannon, senior vice president, adult retail and education sales. Whitney Aaronson joins Random House Children’s as senior product manager for the digital marketing team. She previously worked for Simmons Research as UX product manager. Rob Roglev joins as senior developer for the digital marketing team. He […]