As Amazon’s universe of experiments with physical locations expands to cashierless Amazon Go outlets and rather focusless Amazon 4-Star stores, there are signs of at least a pause in the rollout of Amazon Books stores. It was recently reported that Amazon had passed on developing a Boise, ID location that was to have been their…
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At Scholastic Trade, Liza Baker has been promoted to vp, associate publisher of Cartwheel Books, Orchard Books and Acorn and Branches; Katie Carella to executive editor of Acorn and Branches; Jessica Tice-Gilbert moves up to associate art director of Cartwheel Books and Orchard Books; Yaffa Jaskoll is now executive art director, trade fiction; Celia Lee to senior editor of Cartwheel Books and Orchard…
Corporate: Australian Online Bookseller to Sell Crowdfunded Stock
Australian online bookseller Booktopia has a new plan to raise investment capital after dropping a plan to go public in late 2016. The company is using crowdfunding platform Equitise to raise between $3 million and $10 million (AU), Books and Publishing reports. They are selling 8.1 percent of the business, which had sales of $113…
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Margaux Weisman has joined Penguin as editor, moving over from Vintage/Anchor where she was editor. Mora Couch has been promoted to associate editor at Holiday House. Lion Forge Comics has eliminated 12 positions, including editor Greg Tumbarello, Bleeding Cool reported. In line with the positioning of other publisher layoffs recently, the company says they fired people to…
Bookselling: The Quotable Daunt, and More
Waterstones’ managing director James Daunt is adorably, irresistibly quotable at every turn, and this Times profile does not disappoint. “I would rather there was no Waterstones” he says at the top of the piece. He would prefer “lots of nice independents, prospering up and down the high streets. I genuinely believe that. But there can’t be…
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James Jayo has joined Penguin as senior editor. Previously, he was at Sterling. Two longtime Penguin Random House sales executives will retire soon. VP, group sales director, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Janet Cooke will leave at the end of the year, and Christopher Dufault is being promoted to that position. SVP, director of adult hardcover sales, Penguin…