At Atlantic Books, Margaret Stead will join the company in late April as editorial director. She was previously editorial director of The Harvill Press. Current editorial director Caroline Knight has resigned, by will continue to work for the company after relocating to Kent. Barnes & Noble announced the winners of the 2009 Discover Great New Writers awards: Playwright Victor Lodato‘s debut novel MATHILDA SAVITCH (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), and Dave Cullen‘s COLUMBINE (Twelve). Daniyal Mueenuddin won The Story Prize for his collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. Chicago’s citywide reading program is still going strong, naming Colm Tobin‘s BROOKLYN as […]
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Understanding the Digital Divide for Smaller Publishers
The rise of digital publishing and the coming of the agency sales model raise all kinds of urgent issues for publishers of all sizes. What applies to the biggest publishers may not be the same for smaller companies. Earlier this month Perseus surveyed its approximately 300 distribution clients (over 100 of whom use their digital distribution service Constellation) to learn more about their digital views. The approximately 70 responses provide an interesting glimpse of the “digital divide” between large and small publishers. One big, unanswered strategic question for the company is how to deal with the agency sales model. Will […]
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Rebecca Sears has joined Oxford University Pressas editor for the Grove Art/Oxford Art Online program. She was formerly at Art on Paper magazine, and the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York. Macmillan president Brian Napack has joined the board of LibreDigital. Canadian book publishing pioneer Georges Laberge passed away on Saturday, 78, after a long battle with cancer. He developed the Garneau bookstores, a network of French language bookstores in Canada, created the first National Book Week, and acquired the distribution company that became Diffulivre, which then founded the publishing house Ãditions du Trécarré. Laberge obit Amazing People Club, available […]
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May Wuthrich will join Rob Weisbach Creative Management as a senior associate, developing her own clients as well as contributing to the company’s efforts for their other clients. Wuthrich has worked in film development, scouting, and electronic business initiatives. Barbara Marcus, whose one-year consulting arrangement with Penguin Children’s was already extended for six months longer than planned, will move on at the end of this month. Judy Pray is now a senior editor at Workman’s Artison Books. She was at Clarkson Potter. Michael McKenzie has been promoted to senior publicity director at Ecco. At F+W Media, Tim Langlitz has moved […]
Random House Publisher Services Repeats as Amazon's Distributor of the Year
For the second year in a row, Amazon has honored RH Publisher Services, the company’s third-party distribution service, “for its exemplary work in helping Amazon.com build a world-class customer experience through operational excellence.” The selection criteria listed include “short and consistent receive lead times to make tens of thousands of books available to ship within 24 hours; increasing the percentage of books available in digital format to Amazon Kindle customers; leveraging print-on-demand technology; and providing high-quality and authoritative ONIX data.”Release
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Peterson will move sales and distribution of their titles from Simon & Schuster to Hachette Book Group as of June 1. Peterson’s president Stephen Clemente says “we have forged a relationship with an industry leader who shares our vision and is committed to helping our organization expand into new and emerging markets.”