In the UK, Profile Books founder and managing director Andrew Franklin will step back from running the company as of July 1, when current nonfiction publisher Rebecca Gray will take over as managing director. Franklin will “return to his first love – acquiring, editing and publishing books.” As part of the “wider plan to ensure the company’s future as a thriving independent,” sales director Claire Beaumont will become commercial director, leading the marketing and publicity teams as well. They join finance director Frances Ford and pre-press and production director Jack Murphy on the executive team, with Franklin remaining on that […]
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People: Jack Jensen to Step Down
Jack Jensen, who has been with Chronicle Books for 46 years, will step down from his position as president of the McEvoy Group this month. He will take the role of chair of the McEvoy Group advisory board, and he will continue to serve on the board of Abrams & Chronicle Books in the UK. Jensen joined Chronicle Books in 1977 as Western States sales rep when the company had six employees producing twelve titles per year, rising to president and publisher of Chronicle Books in 1991. In 2017, Tyrrell Mahoney was named president of Chronicle Books and Jensen served […]
Reese’s Book Club Pick
Reese Witherspoon chose Did You Hear about Kitty Karr? by Crystal Smith Paul as her May book club pick. Sample it now in our Buzz Books anthology.
People 5/3
At Candlewick, Stephanie Pando has been promoted to publicist.
All the President’s Legal Deficiencies In Woodward Audio Suit
Attorneys for author Bob Woodward and his publisher Simon & Schuster recently filed a variety of responses to Donald Trump’s suit from January, alleging in a Pensacola, FL Federal Court that the audiobook (and print version) of THE TRUMP TAPES: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump was published without Trump’s permission and infringes his rights. For starters, the defendants laugh at the filing of the suit in Pensacola, and ask for dismissal due to improper venue, or at least a transfer to courts in Washington, DC or New York’s Southern District. As they argue, “None of the substantial […]
Avid Reader Launches Credits Page Campaign
Avid Reader Press is adding a credits page to most of its titles, which will acknowledge the people at the imprint who worked on the book. The publisher described the initiative as ongoing. For now, whether a book gets a credits page or not will be decided case-by-case, like an acknowledgements page. First titles include Christie Tate’s B.F.F, which came out in February, and more recently, LEBRON by Jeff Benedict and BALL IN THE AIR by Michael Bamberger. The Avid Reader credits page names workers across a number of departments including editorial, marketing, production, jacket design and more, as well […]