Dennis Campagna has joined Scholastic as svp, chief accounting officer, replacing Maureen O’Connell, who had temporarily assumed the role earlier this year (She remains chief financial and administrative officer for the company.) Campagna spent the past three years as regional controller for Clear Channel Radio. Christopher Lyon has joined Monacelli Press as executive editor, responsible for fine art and photography. He is also overseeing their electronic publishing initiative. Lyon has worked at MOMA, Bulfinch, Abbeville and Prestel. Stacee Lawrence has been promoted to senior editor, and Heather Kirkpatrick has been hired as marketing manager. (She was at Picador.) The company […]
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Corinna Barsan will join Grove/Atlantic as senior editor on December 5, where she will acquire and edit literary fiction as well as some narrative nonfiction. Previously she was senior editor at Other Press. Also at Grove, Amy Hundley has been promoted to senior editor and rights director. The UK joint venture Abrams & Chronicle Books has promoted David Gooding to managing director. He has been acting managing director since this summer, prior to which he was international sales director. British Columbia bookseller Lee Trentadue, who was due to step up from vice president to president of the Canadian Booksellers Association, […]
NYT Book Review and Critics’ Picks, and Early Leaders for The Best of 2011
The NYT Book Review has posted their top 10 books of the year, along with top 10 lists from the newspaper’s three book critics. As usual, there’s a very small amount of overlap between Kakutani and Maslin’s favorite books and TBR’s Top 10. For the third straight year, Dwight Garner’s nonfiction choices have no intersection at all with the TBR’s favorites.) Book Review Top 10: Fiction THE ART OF FIELDING, by Chad Harbach (MK) TEN THOUSAND SAINTS, by Eleanor Henderson 11/22/63, by STEPHEN KING THE TIGER’S WIFE, by Téa Obreht (MK) SWAMPLANDIA!, by Karen Russell (JM) Fiction ARGUABLY, by Christopher […]
Godin’s Domino Project Wraps Up
Just about a year after it was first announced, Seth Godin’s The Domino Project is issuing its twelfth and final book. Except for “a digital bonus coming soon,” that is. He writes, “By most of the measures I set out at the beginning, the project has been a success. So why stop? Mostly because it was a project, not a lifelong commitment to being a publisher of books. Projects are fun to start, but part of the deal is that they don’t last forever.” Godin explains on his blog nine of his “takeaways” from the venture. Among the things that […]
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Executive editor of features for Library Journal Rebecca T. Miller will become editor-in-chief of School Library Journal as of December 15, filling the slot vacated by Brian Kenney in October. Miller has been at LJ since 1998. Priscilla McGeehon has joined Westview Press as editorial director and executive editor, history and area studies. She will develop and execute the strategic vision for the Westview editorial team and direct the entire editorial staff, and will launch a new history list for the press. She was most recently executive editor for history at CQ Press/SAGE. On Demand Books has hired Karina Makhli as director […]
Retail News
Initial accounts of overall retail sales on Black Friday were positive, with ShopperTrak estimating that sales were up 6.6 percent, setting a new record total and recording the strongest year-over-year gain since 2007. On Small Business Saturday, the Obama family went shopping at Kramerbooks on Dupont Circle, reportedly buying The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever, Tails, The Tiger’s Wife, The Phantom Tollbooth, Zen Shorts, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Descent into Chaos: the United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. For Cyber Monday, Open […]