At Penguin Random House, svp, corporate director business affairs John Schline is stepping down after more than three decades with Penguin and Random House. He will serve as a consultant to the company through the end of 2016. David Sanford has been promoted to svp, executive director, contracts and permissions companywide, with responsibility for all the adult and children’s imprint and divisional contract directors. Robin Simon, Erica Cuculic and Megan Thomas are each appointed director, contracts, Penguin Publishing Group, with respective imprint responsibilities. At Delacorte Press, Wendy Loggia and Krista Marino have both been promoted to senior executive editor, while Monica Jean moves up to assistant editor. Jessica […]
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Stephanie Hitchcock has been promoted to editor at Harper Business. At Henry Holt, Jessica Wiener has been appointed director of marketing. At Little, Brown, Katharine Myers has been promoted to associate director of publicity. In addition, Pamela Brown moves up to marketing director, Little, Brown and Mulholland Books, while Lauren Velasquez joins as marketing manager. Previously she was a marketing manager at the Crown Publishing Group. At Triada US, Brent Taylor has been promoted to subsidiary (audio and foreign) rights manager in addition to his role as associate agent. On Friday, the BISG presented their annual awards to Dominique Raccah at […]
Briefs: Pedroza Collects In Fifty Shades Settlement, Amazon Boston, and More
Jennifer Pedroza will finally collect from her former Writers’ Coffee Shop partner Amanda Hayward, in a confidential settlement. Hayward is dropping her appeal of the Texas District Court judgment that gave Pedroza a $10.6 million award, along with $900,000 in interest and $1.7 million in attorney’s fees. The final payment does include at least $1.6 million from Random House that was being held by the court. Hayward had been ordered to put $10 million in escrow in 2015 though it was never clear whether she had the cash to fulfill the court’s order. Royalties from Random House were to be channeled to the escrow account to […]
Briefs: Forthcoming From George W. Bush & James Patterson; Amazon Opens La Jolla Store
Crown will publish the next book from former President George W. Bush on February 28 — the full-color PORTRAITS OF COURAGE: A Commander in Chief’s Tribute to America’s Warriors, presenting 66 portraits and a mural depicting service members and veterans, painted by President Bush. Crown will offer an over-sized edition signed by President Bush priced at $250, and he will read the text of the stories of the paintings’ subjects for the audio version. President Bush was represented by Robert Barnett at Williams & Connolly, and will donate his “net author proceeds” to the George W. Bush Presidential Center, with Crown acquiring world rights. The paintings […]
Bookselling: BN Small-Format Concept Store in Plano, TX; New Stores Coming to Belmont, MA & Bend, OR; And More
Bcrnes & Noble announced plans to open a new concept store in Plano, TX’s Legacy West development, the Dallas Morning News reports (based on the developer’s press release). Notably the store, set to open in March and including a restaurant and bar like BN’s other new concept stores, will be measure just 9,000 square feet in size. BN vp, development David Deason explained in a statement: “We are excited to be opening a smaller format store, as part of a number of different concept stores that we’re testing nationwide.” Belmont, MA will see a new independent bookstore, Belmont Books, open next March as well, […]
Another Amazon Books Store Planned, for Chicago In 2017
The latest confirmed future location of an Amazon Books store is 3443 N. Southport Avenue in Chicago (in the Lakeview area, not far from Wrigley Field). It was first reported speculatively on the Southport Corridor blog, and then confirmed by Amazon. It’s a 7,200-square-foot retail space — similar to, but larger than, the current Amazon Books store in Seattle, which is 5,500 square feet. Their La Jolla store (in University Towne Center Mall) is still due to open this summer. A third store in the Portland, OR area (in the Washington Square Mall) has been hiring staff since earlier this summer, with […]