Devin Kirk will join Macmillan on April 14 as vp, international sales and marketing, succeeding Judy Sisko, who is retiring next month after more than 46 years in publishing and 22 years at Macmillan. Kirk was previously senior director, international sales for Penguin Random House. At Penguin Random House, Kim Shannon has been appointed to newly created position of vp, director, adult retail sales, Random House. Adult retail sales at Penguin continue to be overseen by John Lawton and Norman Lidofsky. At Sterling Lord Literistic, Caitlin McDonald and Mary Krienke have been promoted to associate agents, while Nadyne Pike moves […]
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Penguin Random House Merges Publisher Service Groups
On the tenth anniversary of Random House Publisher Services, its sales and distribution activities for third-party publishers will be brought together with Penguin’s distribution businesses under the unified management of Jeff Abraham, who now continues as president, Penguin Random House Publisher Services. Kristin Feehan, director, distribution clients, who leads the team dedicated to managing the Penguin client relationships, now will report to Abraham, as does the staff supporting the Random House clients. All other current Penguin and Random House internal and client-reporting relationships will stay unchanged, as will sales reps’ selling responsibilities. Penguin’s distribution clients include Overlook, Kensington, the Library […]
People, Etc.
Publishing Technology will promote chief operating officer of their online division Michael Cairns, who joined the company a year ago, to CEO, as of April 1. George Lossius had announced recently that he would step down as chief executive as the business “focuses more on business development and implementation.” Publishing Technology chairman Martyn Rose says in the announcement, “His market knowledge and expertise in digital publishing are unquestionable and his appointment gives the business continuity and a leader who will drive the business to deliver the next phase of our strategy.” The Robbins Office has appointed Aitken Alexander Associates in London as […]
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Next month the London Book Fair will present agent Deborah Rogers, ceo of Rogers, Coleridge & White, with their annual lifetime achievement award. In the announcement, chair of Penguin Random House UK Gail Rebuck comments: “Deborah Rogers is a legendary agent who has made an unsurpassed contribution to a thriving publishing business. Her entrepreneurial spirit in setting up an agency in the 1960s and seeing it grow successfully, adding brilliant new agents over the years is beyond compare. Deborah is equally known for nurturing the careers of an enviable list of authors where her genius has been not only to […]
Announcements: Microsoft Moves to Pearson; Amazon Publishing in Germany; and More
Microsoft Press will work with Pearson for global distribution of their print and ebooks as of April 1. They will also jointly launch microsoftpressstore.com the same month. Microsoft had been distributed by O’Reilly Media, as part of a broader strategic relationship between the two. Last September, Microsoft Press announced that they were taking back editorial and publishing functions for the business from O’Reilly but continuing to work with them on marketing, sales and distribution. Amazon Publishing is expanding their connection to the German market, led by publisher Sarah Tomashek and a Munich-based team, which is acquiring German-language fiction. The spring 2014 launch […]
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Julia Kardon joins Mary Evans as a foreign rights director and agent. Previously she was an agent at Sterling Lord Literistic. At Hachette Book Group, Sophie Cottrell has been promoted to svp, corporate communications. Amanda Englander has joined Clarkson Potter and Potter Style as associate editor. Previously she was an editorial assistant at Grand Central. At Chronicle Books, Ben Laramie has been promoted to senior industrial designer; April Whitney moves up to senior publicist, Entertainment; and Lisa Tauber has been promoted to associate editor. Bloomsbury UK’s director of trade marketing and publicity Katie Bond has “taken voluntary redundancy and [is] […]