Hachette Book Group announced a new Rapid Replenishment Program, where all orders (subject to stock availability) received on Mondays by 3pm ET will be entered, picked, packed and guaranteed to arrive at accounts no later than Friday. Orders placed Tuesday through Friday will be entered, picked and packed within 24 hours and shipped standard method. This includes orders received into the Hachette system via electronic ordering platforms like Edelweiss. Perseus is partnering with FedEx on an agreement that will “significantly improve shipments to bookstores and other outlets across the US,” the company announced. Under the new agreement, which goes into […]
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People: Meyer “Reimagines” TWILIGHT for 10th Annniversary; and More
Stephenie Meyer announced on Good Morning America a “surprise” new novel in the Twilight series, LIFE AFTER DEATH: TWILIGHT REIMAGINED, released today as bonus content bundled with the original book’s 10th anniversary edition. (The publisher had billed the anniversary edition as offering hundreds of pages of unspecified “bonus content”; this is the bonus.) The new 442-page story is a “reimagining” which flips gender, where Bella is now Beau and Edward is now Edythe. Meyer said in the novel’s foreword that she wrote the story as a response to comments that Bella was a “damsel in distress,” saying: “My answer to that […]
People: Stein Resumes Editing for FSG; MacArthur Honorees; and More
Lorin Stein will once again edit books for Farrar, Straus, as editor-at-large — while continuing to work full-time as editor of the Paris Review, which he joined in 2010 after 12 years at FSG. The plan is for Stein to edit four to eight books, by such authors as Ben Lerner, Richard Price, Lydia Davis, and Donald Antrim. “I’m delighted to have a foot in the book business and to work on longer projects with writers and colleagues I admire so much,” Stein said in the announcement. “My commitment to The Paris Review, and for scouting out what is best and most […]
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Emily Griffin will join Harper as executive editor on October 19. Previously she was senior editor at Grand Central. Amanda Aleksey has joined Perseus’ international sales team as marketing and publicity manager. Previously she was marketing coordinator at Knopf. Chief executive of the Publishers Association in the UK Richard Mollet is leaving after five years to join Reed Elsevier as head of European government affairs. Heidi Hess Saxton will join Catholic publisher Franciscan Media as editorial director for the Servant imprint on October 12. Most recently she was acquisitions editor at Ave Maria Press. J.K. Rowling announced that the play Harry […]
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Michael Ballanco has been hired as Hachette Book Group’s as svp, chief information officer, starting September 28, filling the position vacated by Ralph Munsen. Ballanco was CIO at the Warner Music Group and prior to that at EMI Music. Caitlin McDonald has joined the Donald Maass Literary Agency. She was formerly an associate agent at Sterling Lord Literistic. At Grove Atlantic, Peter Blackstock has been promoted to senior editor. In addition, John Mark Boling moves up to senior publicity manager, Justina Batchelor has been promoted to publicity manager, and Becca Putman has been promoted to sales and marketing associate and academic marketing manager. […]
Hachette Book Group Consolidates Full US Distribution of Hachette UK
In a logical if perhaps overdue more, Hachette Book Group has announced that as of January 2016 they will handle full sales and distribution for Hachette UK titles in the United States. HBG has represented some Hachette UK lines — such as Octopus Books — for many years, and recently added others, like the Asterix line, in early 2015, along with acquired lines such Quercus, which was purchased by Hachette UK in mid-2014. And HBG has handled most Hachette UK titles in Canada since 2010. But other Hachette UK titles remained with Trafalgar Square for US distribution. HBG says that Hachette […]