At Italy’s Garzanti Libri, editorial director Oliviero Ponte di Pino has resigned after more than 20 years there. Paolo Zaninoni, who has been editorial director of Rizzoli and BUR since 2003, will take over at a time to be announced. As part of the reorganization director of Garzanti foreign fiction Elisabetta Migliavada will also serve as director of Italian fiction. Nellie Kurtzman will join Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as vp, marketing. She was most recently director of digital and trade marketing at Disney/Hyperion. At PS Literary Agency, Irene Merritt has been named literary assistant. World Book Night US confirmed that their campaign will return […]
McGraw-Hill Has Second Straight Quarter of “Record” Profits
McGraw-Hill reported second quarter earnings Thursday morning. Adjusted net income from continuing operations was $243 million, up 15 percent and ahead of estimates in what was another “record” quarter for the company. Sales dropped 1 percent to $1.55 billion for the quarter. The education division recorded sales of $474 million, down 12 percent, while net profit, at $57 million, was a 36 percent improvement compared to a year ago–helped, they say, by the restructuring at the end of the last year as well as “ongoing tight expense management.” The company adds, as they did in the previous quarter, that the […]
Booker Longlist Announced
The Booker Prize announced its longlist of a dozen books. The list will be winnowed to six on September 11, with the winner announced on October 16. The full list, including US publishers where applicable, or known: The Yips by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate) The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman (Sceptre/Bloomsbury, March 2013) Philida by André Brink (Harvill Secker) The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon Books/Weinstein Books, Fall 2012) Skios by Michael Frayn (Faber & Faber/Metropolitan) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Doubleday/Random House) Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (And Other Stories) Bring […]
People, Etc.
Hachette UK is opening an office in Hong Kong, covering sales and marketing in all Southeast Asia territories excluding Singapore, Malaysia, and China. Paul Kenny, named to the new role of Southeast Asia sales and marketing manager, will manage the office as of September 17. He was most recently regional sales and marketing manager for Pan Macmillan Asia. “The establishment of an office in Hong Kong is part of our ongoing strategy to develop and manage our sales operations in all our markets,” group commercial director of Hachette UK Richard Kitson said in a statement. “It follows the establishment of […]
People: Tina Bennett Moves to WME
Director at Janklow & Nesbit Tina Bennett is leaving after more than 17 years with the agency to join William Morris Endeavor’s literary division as a partner, effective immediately. We’re told Bennett’s entire client list is moving with her to WME; it includes Malcolm Gladwell, Laura Hillenbrand, Eric Schlosser, Atul Gawande, Jill Lepore, Amy Chua, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Peter Bergen, Lev Grossman, and Alex Ross. The move reunites Bennett with another former Janklow & Nesbit director, Eric Simonoff, who moved to William Morris in early 2009. WME has been recruiting aggressively, recently luring Simon Trewin of United Agents and Elizabeth […]
Briefs: RH UK Adds Digital Distribution Service; S&S Downplays PR for Posnanski Bio of Paterno; Rudin, Diller “Exploring” eBooks; And More
Random House UK‘s distribution unit–which include The Book Service and Grantham Book Services–is partnering with ePubDirect to offer a digital distribution service. It “includes e-book storage” and “global distribution in multiple formats to a growing list of customers which allows current access to over 1,000 e-tailers worldwide, and over 25,000 libraries.” ePubDirect CEO Gareth Cuddy says, “I am hugely excited about this agreement with Random House Distribution through TBS and GBS. We have developed our expertise over the last number of years working with many leading publishers and we know that Publisher sales thrive when fuelled by speed, innovation, reach […]