Archives for May 2022
At Macmillan, Weisberg to Step Aside in 2023 and Yaged to Run US
Macmillan Publishers ceo Don Weisberg will step aside from that position at the end of 2022, and current president of Macmillan Publishers US Jon Yaged will succeed him as CEO in the US. Weisberg will serve “in an advisory capacity to Stefan von Holtzbrinck” starting in January 2023. Weisberg says in the announcement: “Today, with all we’re accomplishing at Macmillan, I can, without hesitation, say that there could be no better time for me to step aside. We are coming off two record-breaking years of unprecedented growth and profit; we have improved every facet of our operation at a time […]
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Anthony Goff joins Blackstone Publishing as president. He was svp audio publisher at Hachette Audio until February, when Ana Maria Allessi took over the combined Hachette Audio and Workman Audio.
Register Today for May 18 Buzz Books Editors Panel
Our fifth virtual Buzz Books Editors Panel is on Wednesday, May 18 at 7 PM Eastern. We are honored to have the American Booksellers Association join us as co-presenter again, with Who? Weekly podcaster and author Bobby Finger as emcee. (His debut novel, The Old Place, is excerpted in our upcoming edition of Buzz Books.) Register here now for the panel and note: The first 50 booksellers who enroll will get a package of galleys for the featured titles. On May 10, a week ahead of the panel, we’ll release the next edition of our ebook sampler, Buzz Books 2022: […]