At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Devin MacDonald has joined as marketing manager. She was most recently brand manager for Harry Potter, Captain Underpants, and Dog Man at Scholastic. Audrey Gibbons has been promoted to publicity manager; Jill Hacking moves up to marketing operations and events associate; Amy Hendricks becomes marketing associate; Samantha Benson has been promoted to associate publicist; and Emily Hutton becomes associate director of sales. Kjersti Egerdahl has been promoted to senior editor at Amazon Original Stories. Patrick Crotty joins Random House Graphic as designer. He was previously publisher and co-founder of Peow. Morgan Vogt has joined Sourcebooks as marketing associate. Tina Wilson has been promoted […]
Bookstores
Bookselling: Indigo Opens in NJ, Shakespeare Opens in Philadelphia; McNally Jackson Searches for New Space
There are noteworthy new store openings to report. Canadian bookseller Indigo opened their first US store as planned, a 30,000-square-foot space at The Mall in Short Hills, NJ. It includes a Wellness Shop, a Paper Shop, Indigo Baby, Indigo Kids — and a piano. And in downtown Philadelphia, Shakespeare & Co. opened the first of three planned new stores, slightly behind the scheduled summer debut. The 2,800-square-foot space includes a cafe and an Espresso Book Machine. Separately, McNally Jackson‘s well-known 5,700-square-foot storefront on Prince Street in Soho has been put up for lease, following the store’s 14-year residence at the […]
People, Etc.
Karen Yates has been promoted to associate literary agent at Yates & Yates. Helen Richard has been promoted to associate editor at Putnam. At Harper Collins, Ashley Mihlebach has been promoted to the newly-created position of director, sales for general books, national accounts, Amazon. Yale University Press celebrates co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics William Nordhaus; they publish his books The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World and A Question of Balance. Briefs Barnes & Noble‘s monthly Book Buzz newsletter does not name a “book of the month” selection for October, but the chain does point […]
Barnes & Noble Shares Jump As Board Considers Sale
After adamantly denying that the company was interested in a sale, on Wednesday after the close of the market Barnes & Noble reversed itself and announced that the board “has decided to enter into a formal review process to evaluate strategic alternatives for the company.” They say that decision came after “expressions of interest from multiple parties in making an offer to acquire the company, including from the company’s chairman, Leonard Riggio.” The stock jumped by more than 25 percent in early trading on Thursday on the news but has been giving back some ground since, up about $1.10 a share or […]
Barnes & Noble Reiterates Make or Break Pledge to Fix Their Website
Barnes & Noble held its annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday morning, to a warm crowd of 50 or so rapt listeners, with a few hecklers reliably in the mix. (One gentleman guffawed both times CFO Allen Lindstrom said the word “innovation.”) Chairman Len Riggio kicked off the day by reiterating their celebration from early September of being named America’s “most reputable retailer” in the Reputation Institute’s 2018 US Retail RepTrak Rankings, moving ahead of Amazon, which Riggio called a “monumental achievement.” Riggio’s prepared remarks echoed themes from their early September earnings conference call, and he underscored that for the first […]
People, Etc.
At Harper Collins, Catherine Barbosa Ross has been promoted to director, foreign rights, and Maureen Cole has been promoted to director of publicity for the Morrow Group. Hachette UK’s Lucy Hale has been promoted to the newly created role of deputy ceo for Hodder & Stoughton, Headline, John Murray Press, and Quercus. Group ceo Jamie Hodder-Williams said, “She has a first-class commercial brain and a forensic knowledge of our markets at home and abroad. Working closely with our authors, she has demonstrated time and again that her peerless vision, her energy, dedication and enthusiasm in delivering campaigns ensures that every book reaches […]