At Putnam, Ashley Hewlett has been promoted to assistant director of publicity. Brennin Cummings has been promoted to senior marketing manager.
People 12/29
At Macmillan, Tracy Eisele joins as senior administrator, procurement. Morgan Mitchell joins as associate production editor. Frances Sayers joins as senior production editor. Ahmed Scott joins as receptionist. Ethan Tolpin joins as manager, environmental sustainability. Rebecca Schmidt has been promoted to associate director sales strategy & analysis and Amazon.
In-Person Winter Institute Canceled
The American Booksellers Association canceled its plans for an in-person Winter Institute, originally scheduled for February 13-16 in Cincinnati. They will refund attendees’ registration fees in January, and will cancel hotel reservations at ABA hotels. The organization plans to announce updated programming details in the coming weeks. In a statement, the ABA said: “We have been full steam ahead with programming, planning, and safety precautions, but the rising number of COVID cases, the contagion of the new variant, and the hospital crisis in Ohio — including the National Guard being called in to assist understaffed hospitals — have forced us […]
2021: The Year in Finance
With Bookscan-monitored print sales up 11 percent in units through November and AAP-reported dollars up even more through October, trade publishers are lined up for a strong, and profitable, year. Multiple publishers have set new earnings records so far this year, as the pandemic-related increase in reading – including backlist sales, audio consumption and online purchasing – held, even as lockdown restrictions loosened in many regions. Based mostly on reports for the first three quarters — with a couple of recent updates — here’s where publishers’ march to a profitable 2021 stands for now: Bertelsmann For the first half of […]
People 12/20
Jenna Lettice and Tricia Lin have been promoted from to editor at Random House Books for Young Readers. Jasmine Hodge has been promoted to assistant editor at Random House Books for Young Readers.
It’s “Premature” for State to Collect Cuomo Earnings
This week, New York’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics ordered that Andrew Cuomo must turn over the profits from his book, American Crisis, for ethics violations. But the New York Attorney General’s office stated in a letter that before it collects the money, the ethics commission must produce an investigative report, the AP reports. The report must include “a record of the administrative process, and the statutory authority for the decision, the amount of the imposed fines and penalties, and a determination concerning the appropriate amount of disgorgement attributable to the violation of law,” the letter said. The report must […]