Gary Jansen will join Loyola Press on August 1 as executive editor, acquisitions. Most recently, he was executive editor and director of Image Books. At Berkley, Jin Yu has been promoted to deputy director, marketing. Allison Hellegers will join Stimola Literary Studio on August 12 as literary agent and subrights director, representing middle-grade, young adult, and select adult fiction and nonfiction. Previously, she was foreign rights director and US co-agent for Rights People for 10 years. Vintage Anchor publisher Anne Messitte wrote a longer remembrance of vice president, executive director of publicity and social media Russell Perreault, who died on […]
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At Orbit, Nivia Evans has been promoted to editor and Hillary Sames to assistant editor. Eva Zimmerman has joined Chronicle Children’s as publicist. Previously she freelanced, as Eva Zimmerman PR, and worked at the Perseus Book Group. KJ Grow has been promoted to publisher of Shambhala. Lauren Rosenthal has joined Pegasus Books as publicist. She was previously publicity and book marketing assistant at Hay House. Hachette UK coo Chris Emerson has resigned for “personal reasons” after 11 years with the company. Obituaries Russell Perreault, vp/executive director of publicity and social media at Vintage Anchor, died at his home in Connecticut […]
Odd Battle at Barnes & Noble Education Continues; B&N Retail Supplements Disclosure
The investor dispute over Barnes & Noble Education recorded another round of dueling press releases. Agitating investor Bay Capital Finance, which says it currently has beneficial ownership of a modest 25,000 shares in BNED, announced its intention to file a preliminary proxy statement with the SEC to solicit votes for the five people they want to nominate for election to the retailer’s board at the upcoming annual meeting. The record date for eligibility to vote at the annual meeting is July 29. Earlier this month, Bay Capital filed suit in Delaware to put forward their board nominees, after the company […]
Bookselling: Another Amazon Store, and a Replacement Barnes & Noble
Further to our report earlier in July that Amazon is hiring staff for a new, unspecified physical store in Detroit (either a Books store or a 4-Star outlet), the company is now similarly hiring for another new store in Houston. Separately, in line with earlier indications, Barnes & Noble has opened a new roughly 14,000-square-foot store at Cityplace in Woodbury, MN, taking the place of a larger, nearby store that closed on Tuesday.
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Kendra Levin will join Simon & Schuster Children’s as editorial director on September 1. She was most recently an editorial director at Penguin Children’s. Heidi Sachner has left her position as vp of books at F+W Media. Sachner will be working with the Penguin Publishing Group on a consulting basis to assist with the integration through the end of the year and can be reached at hsachner@optonline.net. Filipe Silva has joined Macmillan as international sales manager, reporting Devin Luna, vp, international sales & marketing. Silva will be responsible for sales in Macmillan’s open market territories, with direct sales responsibilities for […]
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Callie Garnett has been promoted to editor at Bloomsbury. Jessica Gilo has joined The Monacelli Group as marketing and publicity director. She was formerly the assistant marketing director, culinary & lifestyle at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. George Hodgman, 60, author of memoir Bettyville, and former editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Holt and Simon & Schuster died on Saturday. He was found in his apartment in New York, and the cause of death is pending. Bookselling Chicago’s Pilsen Community Books, which opened in 2016, is for sale. Owners Aaron Lippelt and Mary Gibbons, who also run The Dial bookshop, wrote in an […]