Jeff Carroll will join Macmillan on September 3 as evp, marketing and consumer strategy, reporting to Maya Mavjee. He most recently led marketing efforts at Radio.com, after working at NBCUniversal and Viacom. Jaime Gelman has been promoted to assistant editor at BuzzPop. Awards The Rona Jaffe Foundation announced the winners of their annual writers’ awards: Selena Anderson (fiction), Magogodi oaMphela Makhene (fiction), Sarah Passino (poetry), Nicolette Polek (fiction), Elizabeth Schambelan (nonfiction), and Debbie Urbanski (fiction/nonfiction). Bookselling Philadelphia’s Penn Book Center in University City, which was in danger of closing at the end of the summer, will stay open under new ownership. […]
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Emma Hintzen has joined Sourcebooks eXplore as assistant editor. Bookselling Baltimore’s Greedy Reads will open a second location later this year in the Remington area. Owner Julia Fleischaker opened the first store in 2018. New bookstore Fabled Bookshop and Cafe in Waco, TX, opened over the weekend.
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Allison Devlin has been appointed sales director in client sales at Penguin Random House Publisher Services. Former literary manager at The Gotham Group Eddie Gamarra has been hired as vp studio business development for Nickelodeon. Legal A jury cleared Nicholas Sparks of all counts of defamation and violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, concluding a long-running suit filed by Saul Benjamin, former headmaster of the North Carolina school founded by Sparks and his wife. In the suit, Benjamin accused Sparks of defaming him by claiming to others that he was mentally and/or physically ill, and terminating him because of […]
Amazon Admits They Are Unable and/or Unwilling to Prevent Counterfeit and Infringing Books
Some days the news practically writes itself. On Monday the NYT clearly documented just how polluted the Amazon bookstore has become with fake, illegitimate and counterfeit editions of books by an obscure author like George Orwell. The full statement provided by an Amazon spokesperson in response unwittingly makes the case against the online seller. The diction is reminiscent of the company’s chief “complexifier” — “Today, there is no single source of truth for the copyright status of every book in every country that retailers could use to check copyright status” — but the arguments are more worthy of a child […]
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Malcolm Edwards, former Gollancz chair and consultant publisher at Orion who left Hachette UK in May after 43 years at the company, will join Welbeck Publishing in September to serve as publisher of André Deutsch. He will “focus on resurrecting and reviving the Deutsch fiction backlist, alongside developing a new front list strategy which will concentrate on publishing new titles in some of his key areas of expertise: crime, thriller, science fiction, fantasy and horror.” Executive director Mark Smith says in the announcement: “Malcolm’s appointment allows us to begin to reinvent, republish and resurrect titles from high-quality authors that André […]
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Wendi Gu has returned to Sanford J. Greenburger Associates as agent; she spent the last two years at Janklow & Nesbit as associate agent. Sarah Phair has joined SJGA as agent after 6 years at Trident Media Group, and Edward Maxwell has been promoted to agent. Jenny Stephens has been promoted to agent at Sterling Lord Literistic. Olivia Russo will join Penguin Children’s as senior director, publicity on September 3. She was formerly publicity director, Harper Children’s. Rebecca Brewer is no longer at Ace/Berkley, and can be reached at rebeccacbr@gmail.com and Brewereditorialservices.com. Phoebe Morgan will rejoin Harper UK as editorial […]