With Penguin Random House unifying its adult library marketing teams under the leadership of vp, library sales Skip Dye, the company will also simplify its terms of sale for ebooks into school and public libraries in the US and Canada as of January 1, 2016. The Random House model will prevail companywide over the Penguin practice, and going forward all titles will be sold to libraries in perpetuity — at premium library prices — rather than sold for a term of one year, as has been the Penguin policy. (Titles are still limited to one patron at a time for each ebook […]
Robert Hale Ltd Closes After Nearly 80 Years
UK publisher Robert Hale Ltd will shut down after almost 80 years in business, the Bookseller reports, leading to the immediate loss of 10 jobs, with 4 more set for elimination next year. The company’s lists and imprints, including NAG Press, J A Allen and Buried River Press, have been bought by The Crowood Press. Chairman John Hale “intends to retire and realize the family’s assets next spring.” The publisher is no longer active as of December 1, but will continue some operations as it calculates remaining royalties and winds down. “It is a sad time, but we are delighted that our […]
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At New Leaf Literary & Media, Jaida Temperly has been promoted to agent. Morrissey‘s novel LIST OF THE LOST — unavailable in the US — won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award presented by the UK’s Literary Review. The AP profiles independent booksellers Gayle Shanks (Changing Hands), Mitchell Kaplan (Books & Books), and Kris Kleindienst (Left Bank Books) as typical “baby boomers who founded [book]stores with little sense of how to run a business, but a profound sense of purpose” — who “are now pillars of a smaller but still vital independent-bookstore community, and models for the wave of younger owners.” Coming Attractions Barnes & […]
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Hilary Redmon will move over to the Random House imprint on December 14 as executive editor, reporting to Andy Ward. Redmon has been at Ecco for the past four years, and will acquire and edit history, science, religion, memoir, and narrative nonfiction titles. At Penguin Random House’s international sales & marketing group, Filipe Silva is named associate director, Latin American and Spanish-language sales. At Sourcebooks, Anna Michels is being promoted to editor, and Liz Otte is being promoted to national accounts manager – gift and regional. At Open Road, Rachel Krupitsky has been promoted to senior marketing manager, overseeing marketing of […]
People: Tamblyn Named Kobo CEO; Wheaton Appointed COO of Penguin Random House Canada; and More
Kobo has promoted Michael Tamblyn to chief executive officer, effective January 2016, as well as vice executive manager of the Rakuten Global eBook Business (which includes Overdrive and Aquafadas). He succeeds Takahito Aiki, who remains with the company as chairman of Kobo and managing executive officer of the global ebook business. Tamblyn said in the announcement: “I am looking forward to my role in ensuring our parent company, Rakuten, achieves its vision of enriching every stage of a reader’s life. Together with OverDrive and Aquafadas, we want the best possible reading experiences for schools, libraries, institutions, corporations and consumers, enabling readers to buy […]
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At Perseus, Leslie Jobson has been promoted to senior manager, field sales, while Louisa Brody has been promoted to senior manager, group marketing. Interim director of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Stan Jantz will formally become executive director of the organization as of December 1. Caitlin Ellis has left HarperCollins, where she was most recently manager of domestic rights, to move to Boston. She may be reached at caitlin.ann.ellis@gmail.com. Longtime editor at Prentice Hall and later co-founder of Winthrop Publishers, Paul E. O’Connell, 90, died November 14. Amazon has leased distribution space at the “massive” Liberty View Industrial Plaza in Brooklyn‘s Sunset Park for at least […]