Timothy Travaglini has joined Open Road Integrated Media as director of children’s acquisitions, reporting to advisor Barbara Marcus. Travaglini will help expand Open Road’s ebook acquisition of backlist children’s titles spanning young adult, middle grade, and picture books, as well as acquiring frontlist titles. He was formerly senior editor at Putnam Children’s. At Thomas Nelson, Russ Schwartz has been promoted to vp of independent Christian retail sales. Former deputy director of publicity at Holt Maggie Sivon has joined Amazon Publishing in New York as a publicist. Christine Manfield‘s TASTING INDIA was named the IACP’s cookbook of the year on Tuesday. Among […]
Bloomsbury Acquires Fairchild Books
Continuing with its mission of bolstering its academic publishing division, Bloomsbury announced it has acquired Fairchild Books, which publishes textbooks and educational resources for students of fashion, merchandising, retailing and interior design. The deal was for $6.5 million in cash, which Bloomsbury will pay out in three annual installments. Bloomsbury’s relationship with Fairchild goes back to 2006, as it has been the company’s ex-North American distributor through its Berg imprint; in addition Bloomsbury’s presence in the visual arts space grew when it acquired Berg Publishers in 2008, launched the Berg Fashion Library in 2010 and acquired a fashion photography archive […]
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Kelly Snowden joins Ten Speed Press as associate manager, publicity and marketing, cookbooks. She spent the previous six years at Food & Wine Magazine, most recently as staff assistant features editor. In addition, Sarah Pulver has joined the imprint as designer, having most recently been a design fellow at Chronicle Books, and Ashley Matuszak joins as marketing assistant. Erin Buterbaugh joins MacGregor Literary as a literary agent, focusing on children’s books, YA, lifestyle titles, cookbooks, the arts, and some select fiction. The WSJ continues its series of articles praising Random House, this time focused on Gina Centrello‘s successful leadership of […]
Bookselling: Newark’s The Book Nook to Close; Dymocks Holiday Sales ‘Best Ever’; and More
After failing to secure a buyer, The Book Nook in Newark, NJ will close on April 1 after nearly 40 years in business. Owner Pat Luckeydoo told the Newark Advocate that she is ready to retire and was unable to find anyone who wanted to buy the store. Closing the store “went from being a last resort to a necessary decision,” she said. “We will definitely miss the customers. I’d like them to know they were very special to us.” The new head of the Dymocks bookstore chain in Australia and New Zealand, Steve Cox, told Smart Company that the […]
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Kate Travers will join Workman as director, digital business development starting April 11th, reporting to Andrea Fleck-Nisbet. In this role she will oversee our web properties and services, develop and maintain Workman’s online communities, and help to plan Workman’s overall digital media strategy. She was most recently at F+W Media, where she was responsible for executing digital strategy across 23 e-commerce and 18 community websites. Brianne Halverson will join the It Books and Harper Design marketing department as associate director of marketing beginning April 9. She was most recently director of publicity for William Morrow. Elizabeth Hanslik Psaltis has been […]
International: Barnes & Noble Incorporates Digital Media Company In Germany; Dutch Book Chain Selexyz Files for Bankruptcy; And More
As another piece of Barnes & Noble’s coming international expansion, TechCrunch notes a Buchreport finding that BN incorporated a new company, Barnes & Noble Digital Media GmbH, in Germany on March 15. Company vp, general counsel and corporate secretary Eugene DeFelice is listed on the new Germany company’s incorporation papers, from which one can infer that BN has formed the legal entity but does not yet have an operational plan. BN already has an existing partnership with German bookstore aggregator BookWire. Once-dominant Dutch book chain Selexyz has been suffering from serious financial trouble since last fall (and never really recovered […]