Former publisher at Twelve Cary Goldstein will join Simon & Schuster’s trade imprint as vp, executive director of publicity and senior editor on June 3. In his new role, Goldstein will supervise the S&S publicity department and acquire a select number of fiction and nonfiction titles. “Cary Goldstein brings great intelligence, creativity, and enterprise to every book he works on, as a publicity director and as an editor,” writes publisher Jonathan Karp, who launched Twelve in 2006 with Goldstein as director of publicity and acquiring editor, in the announcement. “I know Cary will thrive at this dual role because I […]
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Longtime Barnes & Noble employee Brenda Marsh has left her position as vp, author relations, Publishing Trends reports. She can be reached at brendasmarsh@gmail.com. Founder of Hanser Berlin Elisabeth Ruge will leave the company at the end of 2013 for what she characterized as “personal reasons.” Ruge, who founded the imprint at Carl Hanser Verlag in January 2012, will be replaced by Karsten Kredel, currently head of translated fiction at Suhrkamp Verlag. “Hanser Berlin’s lively and unique profile will no doubt be developed and strengthened by Karsten Kredel – of this I am confident – and I wish him and my colleagues […]
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Clay Farr will join Basic Books as vp, associate publisher & marketing director later this month. He spent the past nine years at Perseus, most recently as vp, group marketing, and also served on Basic’s editorial board. At Crown, Rachel Meier has been named managing editor for the Crown trade, Broadway Books, and Hogarth imprints. Previously she was marketing manager for Crown Trade. Summer Smith has joined Bloomsbury as associate director of publicity. Previously she was publicity manager at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Emily van Beek has been promoted senior vice president at Folio Jr., the children’s division of Folio Literary […]
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Joe Perez has joined the Random House Publishing Group as senior art director. Previously he was art director at Portfolio. At Atheneum, Emma Ledbetter has been promoted to assistant editor. Kerri Buckley has joined Carina Press as editor. Previously she was a product manager at Christopher Radko/Rauch Industries and before then, editor at Ballantine Bantam Dell. At Goodreads, Patrick Brown has been promoted to director of author marketing. In addition, Cynthia Shannon has been named author marketing coordinator. Previously she was communications manager at Berrett-Koehler. Fiona Brown has joined Little, Brown as senior publicist. Previously, she was at Riverhead. In the UK, […]
eNews: PBS MediaShift to Publish eBooks; Progress Reports from Boston Globe, Minneapolis Star-Tribune
PBS MediaShift has launched a new line of ebooks with How to Self-Publish Your Book and Your Guide to Cutting the Cord to Cable TV, priced at $3.99 and $2.99, respectively and only available for Kindle and the iBookstore for now (though Nook will follow in due course.) Executive director Mark Glaser told paidContent that MediaShift intends to release 10 to 20 ebooks this year, depending on sales of the launch titles. “This is a test for us and PBS, so we will learn as we go and adjust prices, length, subject matter and more.” Last Friday Poynter looked at the ongoing ebook […]
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Doug Pocock has been named managing director of Abrams & Chronicle Books, the UK distribution joint venture, effective May 20. He was most recently a partner in the publishing consultancy The Media Partners, and before then was evp, managing director of Egmont USA. “Doug Pocock is a seasoned and highly respected publishing executive,” said Chronicle Books president Jack Jensen in a statement. “We look forward to his stewardship of our rapidly expanding UK joint venture.” At Morrow/Avon, Erika Tsang has been promoted to editorial director while Amanda Bergeron moves up to editor. Authors Alexandra Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril, who write together as […]