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At today’s annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), Macmillan ceo John Sargent relinquished the position of organization treasurer after 10 years of service. Sargent will remain on the board, and Norton president Drake McFeely becomes treasurer. Association officers will now rotate annually. Outoing AAP chair David Young thanked Sargent for his years of service, including his “great leadership” in the Google book search efforts (along with “the altruistic efforts of Richard Sarnoff, who has continued to work on our behalf since leaving the industry.”) Young said “we continue to make progress in resolving the differences between publishers and Google.” […]

Barnes & Noble has hired Michael P. Huseby as chief financial officer, and he will start work tomorrow. As for the ongoing realignment of the company’s businesses, they say Huseby will “lead the company’s finance organization, aligning the company’s finance and business strategies, optimizing the company’s capital structure and helping to scale the rapidly growing digital business.” From 2004 to 2011 was evp and cfo at Cablevision, and prior to that he was evp and cfo at another cable operator, Charter Communications. Alan Lindstrom has been acting cfo for the past five months. Paula Munier has joined Talcott Notch Literary […]

Michael Taeckens will join Graywolf Press as marketing director, effective April 16. He spent the past eleven years at Algonquin, most recently as online and paperback marketing director. Casey Ebro has joined McGraw-Hill Professional as editor. She was previously an editor at Arcade Publishing. In France, Gregory Messina has joined the Place des Editeurs group as rights director, reporting to Anne-Laure Aymeric.  He will  sell rights for Belfond, Presses de la Cité, Hors Collection, Le Pré aux Clercs and Omnibus. Previously, he sold rights at Editions Robert Laffont. At Chronicle, Jeff Wiebe has been promoted to associate director of operations. The 2011 […]