Diane Lomonaco, 67, former associate director, production, for Putnam, died on October 4 of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Over the course of her career, she also held positions at Simon & Schuster, and Betty Crocker. Penguin Random House writes, “Diane was the ultimate professional, extraordinarily knowledgeable about all facets of bookmaking, and deeply caring of her colleagues and authors. She was a warm and devoted friend, sister, and aunt with a sharp and dry sense of humor who always found the right words to cheer and console. With a love for books and poetry, Diane brought her fondness for theatre […]
Archives for October 2021
Bookselling: Tattered Cover to Open in Colorado Springs
Tattered Cover will open a store in downtown Colorado Springs in early 2022, aiming for between February 15 and March 15. Tattered Cover currently has five locations in and around Denver, as well as a pop up mall store, three airport stores, and another Denver-area location slated to open this fall. The 8,400-square-foot Colorado Springs space will be the store’s first location outside the Denver metro area. Its lease agreement “allows the retailer to make rent payments based on a percentage of its sales.”
People 10/11
Amy Macaluso has been promoted to senior financial reporting and data analyst at Candlewick.
Last Call for Buzz Books 2022: Spring/Summer
If you haven’t submitted your title nominations for the forthcoming Buzz Books 2022: Spring/Summer sampler, you need to do so by Friday, October 15. For more information, or if you missed your invitation, please contact Robin Dellabough, robin@publishersmarketplace.com. We’ll have a separate call/reminder for flagging your notable titles for our big seasonal previews, so stay tuned.
OverDrive Acquires TeachingBooks.net
OverDrive Education has acquired TeachingBooks.net, which provides supplemental materials to K-12 schools “to enrich how a book is taught in the classroom,” currently licensed to over 55,000 schools and libraries around the world. The deal enhances the offerings of OverDrive’s Sora app, which provides ebooks and audiobooks to students. The terms of the deal were not announced. OverDrive founder and ceo Steve Potash said, “TeachingBooks has compiled and created one of the most valuable collection of resources for the books that are essential for student reading. OverDrive’s Marketplace, the largest catalog of digital books for student reading programs, combined with […]
People 10/8
At Gallery and Atria, Pamela Grant has been promoted to senior art manager and Chelsea McGuckin has been promoted to senior designer.