At the Random House Publishing Group, Melissa Milsten has been named director, partnerships and business development, reporting to Allison Dobson. In her new role Milsten will focus on developing long-term relationships with consumer brands and products to expand the audience for RHPG authors, increase marketing, publicity, and digital reach, and develop new revenue streams. Diana Coglianese has been promoted to editor for Knopf and Pantheon. Last Friday Hastings “dismissed 14 mid-level to executive employees” in order to cut their administrative costs. CEO and chairman John Marmaduke has relinquished the presidency, promoting Alan Van Ongevalle to president and chief operating officer as […]
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Lonely Planet recently announced a number of promotions and new hires. Leslie Davisson has been promoted to director, trade channel marketing and national accounts, while Gerilyn Attebery moves up to senior design manager and Rana Freedman has been promoted to senior manager, consumer marketing and communications. Jennifer Pentes has joined as production lead overseeing the new US-based Client Solutions delivery team. Previously she was assistant director, creative services and marketing, at Sundance Institute. Rachel Berg has been named content producer, previously principal of editorial & promotional content at Travelocity. Finally, Clare Chadwick has moved from Lonely Planet’s Melbourne office to […]
Fielding, Goodwin Among Announced BEA Breakfast Speakers
Per their recent custom, Book Expo America is trickling out author breakfast announcements. Doris Kearns Goodwin will appear as part of the Adult Book and Author Breakfast on May 30, speaking about her upcoming October book THE BULLY PULPIT: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism. (The other three slots will be announced later.) Veronica Roth, Mary Pope Osborne, Rick Riordan, and a fourth author TBA will speak at the Children’s Author Breakfast on May 31. And Chris Matthews will serve as master of ceremonies for the June 1 Author Breakast, with Helen Fielding (for her untitled Bridget […]
More Data and Insights from Publishers Launch Children’s
Our Publishers Launch conference Children’s Publishing Goes Digital on Tuesday was a terrific event, and we’ll have more of our own to share from the presentations later in the week. (Our first report from Tuesday is here.) In the meantime, you can check out a long overview from Shelf Awareness, a piece at PW on the Bowker/Bookigee data, and multiple pieces at DigitalBookWorld.com, including one on Peter Hildick-Smith at Codex Group’s data on how and where children and parents discover books.
Live Streams, One Sell-Out, and A Reading List
Digital Book World Week is here and while nothing takes the place of being there, the organizers have introduced a new paid livestream option for those who can’t make it to New York for the event on January 16 and 17. The livestream subscription includes the morning keynotes both days, as well as 3 afternoon breakout sessions each day. Details and registration for the livestream only are here. Regular DBW attendees will have full access to the streamed and recorded content through the end of the month, along with their choice of over 50 sessions across two days–show registration is […]
New for Children: Another Scholastic Original Series
Also forthcoming is a new “multi-platform” house-created series from Scholastic, in the vein of their successful 39 Clues and Infinity Ring lines. SPIRIT ANIMALS is their first fantasy series in this format, and it launches September 10, 2013, with the first title–WILD BORN–written by Brandon Mull and another in January 2014 by Maggie Stiefvater. The series “centers around the fantasy world of Erdas where children who come of age go through a ritual to determine if they have a ‘spirit animal,’ a rare bond between human and beast that bestows great powers to both. Four children from different cultures undergo […]