Ken Michaels has been named ceo of Macmillan Higher Education and Macmillan New Ventures, taking up the post after the merger of MacmillanScience and Education and Springer Science closes. Michaels wil report to John Sargent in the new position, which includes the US-based higher education publishing that Macmillan retains outright after the merger. (He is currently global chief operating office of MSE.) Ruta Rimas has been promoted to senior editor at Margaret K. McElderry Books. Siena Koncsol has joined Harlequin Teen as publicity manager. Previously she was a publicist at S&S Children’s. Domenica Alioto is being promoted to senior editor for Crown. Jennifer Johnson-Blalock […]
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Joe Monti has been promoted to editorial director at Saga Press. Michael Yeon has joined Open Road as svp, marketing, reporting to Rachel Chou. Previously he was vp, marketing at Grooveshark. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jessica Gilo has been promoted to culinary marketing manager.
RHCB Doubles Print Run For WHAT PET SHOULD I GET?
Random House Children’s Books has doubled the announced first printing for Dr. Seuss‘s forthcoming posthumous title WHAT PET SHOULD I GET? to 1 million copies to “keep up with demand.” The publisher also released an illustration from the book, scheduled for release on July 28. Distribution Columbia University Press Sales Consortium will provide sales representation for the University of California Press in the US as of July 1, 2015. Ampersand Inc. will represent UC Press in Canada.
LAT Book Prize Winners Include Hustvedt, Luiselli, Rankine, & Hobbs
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in ten categories on Saturday night. They include: Fiction Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World (Simon & Schuster) The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd (Coffee House Press) Current Interest Jeff Hobbs, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (Scribner) Poetry Claudia Rankine, Citizen (Graywolf) Other winners include Adam Tooze (History); Elizabeth Kolbert (Science & Technology); Tom Bouman (Mystery/Thriller); Candice Fleming (Young Adult); Andrew Roberts (Biography); and Jaime Hernandez (Graphic Novel). As previously announced, T.C. Boyle won the Robert Kirsch Award and Levar Burton was […]
Awards: Indies Choice Winners, PEN Shortlists, and More
The winners of the Indies Choice Book Awards were announced Thursday afternoon: Adult Fiction: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) Adult Nonfiction: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan) Adult Debut: The Martian by Andy Weir (Crown) Young Adult: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Winners of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards are: Middle Reader: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen Books) Picture Book: Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen (Candlewick) Additionally, Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer will jointly […]
Bookselling: Sales Fall Another 4 Percent at WHSmith; Looking Glass Books For Sale; and More
WHSmith reported interim half-year results (ending February 28) with sales at their High Street stores were down 5 percent, with same store sales also down 4 percent. Profits for that segment increased 2 percent (or £1m) to £50m, as “strong gross margin performance and costs were tightly controlled” saving costs of £6m over the six-month period with another £5m set to be cut in the second half. The numbers remain consistent with their fiscal 2014 results, in which High Street store sales fell 6 percent and same-store sales fell 5 percent, with book sales declining 8 percent. Release Looking Glass […]