Francesco Sedita has been named vp, publisher of Grosset & Dunlap and Price, Stern Sloan, reporting to Penguin Children’s president Don Weisberg and starting September 29. Most recently he was executive creative director at Scholastic, where he worked for the past seven years. Weisberg says, “Francesco’s varied background in creative marketing, school book clubs, in addition to his involvement with the campaigns for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Brian Selznick’s award-wining The Invention of Hugo Cabret, makes him the perfect fit. For Grosset and PSS, I was searching for someone who is totally immersed in the trends of […]
Distribution
One-Stop eServices for Perseus Clients
Perseus has officially announced their program to help physical distribution clients and their own publishing units streamline participation in a variety of digital and ebook sales and promotion/visibility programs. In development for months and dubbed Constellation, Perseus calls it a “‘one-stop shop’ digital offering” to help “independent publishers exploit the sales and marketing opportunities created by the rapid developments of digital technology.” Participating publishers supply a single print-ready PDF file and then “will have complete control over what books they make available for what services.” Current choices from what will be an expanding menu of options include ebook sales through […]
Personnel, Bookstores, and Distribution
Mary Cummings, former administrator of the McKnight Award in Children’s Literature and organizer of the Festival of Children’s Literature at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, will be representing children’s books in association with Betsy Amster Literary Enterprises. Hollan Publishing’s principals Holly Schmidt and Allan Penn have joined with literary agent Lori Perkins to form Literary Partners Group, which is launching an online publishing company called Ravenous Romance. They will publish daily novel-length erotic romances, as well as lunchtime short stories, in e-book and downloadable MP3 format, starting December 1. Schmidt says in an announcement “we will succeed by producing […]
Distribution News: Trafalgar Square Adds Nine
Trafalgar Square is now distributing the following well-known UK publishers in the US market: The History PressOneWorld Classics/Calder PublicationsPiatkus Books along with: Alma BooksAngry PenguinCadmos BooksCapuchin ClassicsPushkin PressSpy Publishing Previously, MBI distributed select imprint from The History Press, as did NBN, which also distributed Alma, OneWorld, Piatkus and Pushkin. The other four have not been distributed in North America before.