At Holt’s Metropolitan Books, Sara Bershtel has been promoted to vp, publisher. Elsewhere at Holt, Karen Frangipane has been hired as director of marketing for Holt Children’s. She was at Simon and Schuster. Gordon Willoughby will take over as the head of the book business at Amazon.co.uk tomorrow. He was vp of operations and customer support for Europe at eBay. Willoughby will report to vp of media Christopher North. In Europe, Lulu.com has layed off “almost a quarter of its employees,” with European vp Cristel Lee Leed among the 24 people being let go. CEO Bob Young tells NewMediaAge “with […]
