Mary Francis will take over as director of Penn Press at the University of Pennsylvania on September 23. She has been editorial director of University of Michigan Press since 2015 and spent more than 16 years at University of California Press. At Chronicle Books, Rebecca Hunt has been promoted to editorial director, entertainment. Christina Amini has been promoted to executive publishing director, adult trade. Arcadia’s director of national sales and marketing Kate Everingham will leave the company on December 31 after over 20 years there, after which she will assist on special projects in a consulting role. She will transition […]
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At Chronicle Books, Rebecca Hunt has been promoted to editorial director, entertainment. Christina Amini has been promoted to executive publishing director, adult trade. Arcadia’s director of national sales and marketing Kate Everingham will leave the company on December 31 after over 20 years there, after which she will assist on special projects in a consulting role. She will transition from overseeing the national accounts sales and marketing team on September 3, when Amy Kaneko will joins the company director of national sales and marketing. Kaneko was most recently with Weldon Owen and Insight Editions. Cindy Uh has departed from Thompson […]
Quarto Loses A Little Less Ahead of “Particularly Challenging” Fall; BNED Sets Meeting, and More
Quarto released half-year results for 2019, reporting an improvement in earnings — which is to say, a smaller loss — amidst a prediction of a challenging second half of the year. Revenue was up slightly to $56.4m, from $56.2 million in the first half of 2018, but those sales were spread across fewer books, as part of the company’s cost-reduction program. The total operating loss was $(1.2) million, an improvement from $(4.7) million in last year’s period; adjusted loss before tax was $(4.0) million compared to $(6.6) million. The company suggests that the “net debt [has] reduced significantly,” but that’s […]
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Malcolm Edwards, former Gollancz chair and consultant publisher at Orion who left Hachette UK in May after 43 years at the company, will join Welbeck Publishing in September to serve as publisher of André Deutsch. He will “focus on resurrecting and reviving the Deutsch fiction backlist, alongside developing a new front list strategy which will concentrate on publishing new titles in some of his key areas of expertise: crime, thriller, science fiction, fantasy and horror.” Executive director Mark Smith says in the announcement: “Malcolm’s appointment allows us to begin to reinvent, republish and resurrect titles from high-quality authors that André […]
Woodson’s Red at the Bone Tops September Library Reads
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson is the top pick for September’s Library Reads. Also on the list is Evie Dunmore’s Bringing Down the Duke, excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019: Romance sampler. The rest of the picks: Don’t You Forget About Me, by Mhairi McFarlane The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett The Long Call, by Ann Cleeves No Judgments, by Meg Cabot The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott This Tender Land, by William Kent Krueger The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates Well Met, by Jen DeLuca
Delaware Court Rejects Move to Block Barnes & Noble Education’s Meeting
The Delaware Chancery Court rejected a dissident shareholder’s request for a preliminary injunction blocking Barnes & Noble Education’s annual meeting. Sunil Suri at Bay Capital Finance has been trying to nominate four directors for election to the bookseller’s board, but he acquired stock too late to qualify. Vice Chancellor Kathaleen S. McCormick said, “Bay Capital blew the deadline. It then made up excuses for doing so. Nothing in the record suggests the company [BNED] was in any way at fault.” She called conflicts and flaws in the complaint “a little bit shocking.” According to Law360’s account of the hearing, the court […]