At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Jenica Nasworthy has been promoted to assistant managing editor. Ireland-based eBook distributor ePub Direct has opened a New York office, where they have hired Leana Rivera as account manager. She was at Penguin Random House Children’s. Fantasy author Graham Joyce, 59, died Tuesday from complications of lymphoma. His most recent novel was THE GHOST IN THE ELECTRIC BLUE SUIT, published by Doubleday last month.
Wiley Q1 Results Up, But Trade Book Sales Decline
Wiley reported first quarter 2015 results of $438 million, up 4 percent on an “adjusted” basis. Net income of $33.5 million was up 9 percent on a currency-neutral basis, but virtually flat in real terms. The professional development segment, where Wiley’s trade business remains, rose $8 million to $92 million for the quarter, but the gains all came from the recent acquisitions of CrossKnowledge and Profiles International. Revenue was down 3 percent without those acquisitions. Print book sales fell 2 percent to $56 million in this segment, and ebooks actually declined more, down 11 percent to $10.5 million. declined 3 percent for the […]
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Ruth Homberg has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s as senior marketing manager. Previously she was digital marketing manager at Egmont UK. In addition, Hayley Gonnason has been named senior publicist, starting September 22. She is currently a publicist at S&S Children’s. Both will work in HMH’s New York office. At HarperCollins, Austin Tripp has been named national account manager, Amazon, succeeding Diane Jackson, who will retire on October 1 after 24 years with the company. In addition, Christy Johnson joins as national account manager, Amazon. Previously she was sales/marketing/inventory manager at the New Press. Forbes has released their annual list of […]
Apple Shareholders Sue Executives Claiming Agency Pricing Lawsuit “Caused Damages”
Apple may have settled its ongoing litigation over ebook pricing with the plaintiff states and consumer class earlier this summer (pending the outcome of the company’s appeal of Judge Cote’s 2013 ruling), but some of the same issues return in a new, derivative lawsuit launched by a single shareholder last Thursday in Santa Clara County California State Court. That complaint claims that Apple ceo Tim Cook and other executives, including Eddy Cue and directors Al Gore and Bill Campbell, “bear responsibility for ensnaring Apple in a multi-year anticompetitive scheme” and engaged in “breach of fiduciary duties, waste of corporate assets, and unjust […]
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Longtime editor Tom Miller will join Sanford J. Greenburger Associates as a literary agent on September 15. He will represent primarily nonfiction projects in the areas of diet and wellness, psychology and self-help, business, popular culture, spirituality, cooking, and narrative nonfiction. Most recently, he was an executive editor at McGraw-Hill. Annie Nybo has been promoted to assistant editor at Margaret K. McElderry Books. In the UK, Bonnier Publishing has hired Justine Smith as publisher of Templar, starting October 20. She was previously a publisher at DK. Also in the UK, the shortlist was announced for Swansea University’s Dylan Thomas Prize to an author 39 or […]
Jodi Picoult Tops October Indie Next List
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult is the top selection of ABA booksellers for October. Their list also includes A Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel, included in our Publishers Lunch Fall/Winter Buzz Books. You can download our free sampler from any ebookstore (or from the Buzz home page) to read substantial excerpts from Richtel’s book and all other included authors right now. The full Indie Next list is: #1: Leaving Time: A Novel, by Jodi Picoult The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters Nora Webster: A Novel, by Colm Tóibín On Immunity: An Inoculation, by Eula Biss Good Grief: Life in a […]