Former svp, group publisher of Simon & Schuster Children’s Trade imprints Rubin Pfeffer has joined the East/West Literary Agency, heading up the East Coast office in Boston as a partner, digital strategist, and content agent, a new position “focused on developing and creating content for the 21st -century incarnations of publishing, both electronic and traditional print.” Pfeffer says, “The value that I hope to offer East/West and the clients that I represent is being nimble and opportunistic about how their intellectual property can be leveraged effectively in this dawn of electronic publishing. There are many more options for writers and […]
Agency News
Bookseller Correct Aitken Alexander Results
The Bookseller has amended their article on UK agencies having trouble making profits. The 850,000-pound loss they reported for Aitken Alexander was incorrect; the agency made a post-tax profit of 62,000 pounds.Note at the end of article
Top UK Agencies Struggle to Show Profit
The Bookseller analyzed filings from six of the UK’s biggest literary agencies and found that they all lost money in the most recently-reported fiscal year except for AP Watt, which made a little under 250,000 pounds. (NB many of these figures apply to fiscal 2008.) Start-up United Agents lost 2 million pounds on revenues of 6 million pounds in their first year, while the PFD they left behind “appears to have made a loss close to £1 million.” A brief filing from Sheil Land “showed it made a loss close to £75,000.” The more current numbers come from Curtis Brown […]
People
The Library of America has hired Trish Hoard as production editor. Hoard was previously managing editor at Counterpoint Press and associate publisher at Shoemaker & Hoard. She replaces retiring managing editor Sharon Graham, who had overseen the publication of all 200 volumes in the Library of America series, dating back to 1982, along with numerous special publications. HarperOne associate publisher Claudia Boutote is being promoted to senior vice president, and executive editor Gideon Weil has been made a vice president. Ronit Feldman has been promoted to associate editor at Nan A. Talese books. Jennifer Abbots will join Victoria Sanders & […]
Rappaport Agency to Close
Owner Jenny Rappaport writes: “It is with a great deal of sadness that I announce that The Rappaport Agency will be closing for business at the end of the year, due to economic reasons. I have been privileged to get the chance to work with amazing people over the last four and a half years, many of who I am proud to call my friends. In the coming weeks, I will be wrapping up outstanding submissions and putting things in order.”
Random Moves Up McCann Paperback, and More Announcements
Random House Trade Paperbacks has moved up publication of the trade paperback edition of National Book Award-winning novel LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN by Colum McCann from next spring to December 4. They say they are printing 100,000 copies. PJ Mark, formerly an agent and international rights director at McCormick & Williams, will join Janklow & Nesbit Associates in January as an agent, to expand his list of award-winning young talent in fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels. Wiley has signed with the Copyright Clearance Center to use their Rightslink service as the online licensing solution for their journals and books. […]