Simon & Schuster Audio announced a number of recent promotions. Desiree Vecchio has been promoted to the position of editor; Christina Zarafonitis moves up to senior producer; Louisa Solomon has been promoted to managing producer & casting director; and Michael Noble moves up to senior associate producer. In the UK, Peter Owen — founder of the publisher that carries his name — died at 89 on Tuesday after a short illness. Owen had moved up to chairman of the company last summer; his daughter Antonia Owen will now move take over as publisher. An AP story credits Peter Costanzo — currently digital and […]
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Maggie Searcy has been promoted to associate art director, ad promo design at HarperCollins Children’s. Affirm Press will work with Linda Kaplan at Kaplan/Defiore Rights to sell rights to select titles throughout the world, including North America. An editing error misreported Nisha Panchal-Terhune‘s promotion at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. She is now associate director, creative services. Distribution Lorimer Children & Teens will work with Lerner Publisher Services as their US distributor to the trade and school and public library markets, beginning August 2016. Awards Flora Fraser has won the George Washington Prize for The Washingtons: George and Martha (Knopf)
Briefs: BookBub to Offer Paid Ads; Applebaum, Potash Honored; and More
Initiatives BookBub, which promotes selected ebook price deals as paid promotions, is now starting to add paid advertisements as well. (Advertised books do not need to be discounted, or subject to BookBub’s other criteria for editorial filtering.) Pricing is based on CPM auctions. Awards The annual UJA-Federation of New York Publishing Division dinner on Wednesday night featured a few twists, honoring a digital reading pioneer for the first time, and celebrating two men with longstanding family connections to the UJA — emeritus evp, corporate communications, Penguin Random House Stuart Applebaum through his father, and president and ceo of Overdrive Steve Potash […]
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Brenda Marsh will become managing director of Abrams & Chronicle Books, the UK-based sales and marketing joint venture of Abrams and Chronicle Books, on June 27. Marsh has been vp, director of business development at Abrams since 2014, after almost 15 years in executive positions at Barnes & Noble. She fills the position vacated by Doug Pocock in March. Abrams ceo Michael Jacobs says in the announcement, “Brenda is a proven leader, an inspirational boss, and a superb mentor as well as a seasoned professional who is admired throughout the publishing industry.” Also in the UK, president of SAGE International Stephen Barr has been […]
People: Pfuhl to Holtzbrinck In Germany, and More
Joerg Pfuhl will join Holtzbrinck on September 1 as chief executive officer of their German trade publishing group, reporting to John Sargent. Previously Pfuhl was ceo of Verlagsgruppe Random House from 2002 to 2011, and more recently was a professor at the University of Applied Management and held board positions with Edel AG and the Franz Cornelsen Foundation. Sargent said in the announcement: “I have known Joerg since his highly successful tenure as president of Random House in New York, and watched with admiration as he transformed Random House in Germany. He has remarkable skills as a publishing executive, combined with […]
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Kathleen Schmidt has joined Rodale as associate publisher, Rodale Books, reporting to Gail Gonzales. She was previously vp, marketing and publicity at Running Press, and will oversee the sales, digital product, managing editorial and Rodale Wellness digital content teams. Gonzales said in the announcement: “I’m delighted to welcome Kathleen to Rodale Books. She’s been hugely successful working on the Running Press lines of business. Her well rounded publishing experience in sales, marketing, and publicity will be a great asset to us as we take our business forward in new and exciting directions and connect with even more readers and consumers of […]