Setting aside any doubts about Macmillan’s committment to Picador, the company has hired Stephen Morrison as vp, publisher for Picador Books starting April 30. He will report to both Jonathan Galassi and Stephen Rubin. Morrison is currently associate publisher and editor-in-chief at Penguin. His “mandate is to make Picador one of the industry’s most undaunted, aggressive marketing machines, culling books from all of Macmillan’s divisions, including St. Martins, FSG and Holt.” Reporting to Morrison will be vp, sales and marketing Darin Keesler; executive director of publicity James Meader; senior editor David Rogers; creative director Henry Yee; and managing editor Kolt […]
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Bowker Merges US and UK Consumer Research Brands; Random House Adds “Ideas Exchanges”
Following their previous acquisition of UK-based Book Marketing Limited, Bowker is merging that unit’s work with their US-based PubTrack Consumer research line under the new global banner of Bowker Market Research. That moniker will now incorporate their consumer research around the world, industry statistics, the UK’s Book Marketing Society, and their ISBN-driven bibliographic statistics in the US. UK-based Jo Henry will run day-to-day operations, reporting to vp Kelly Gallagher in the US, who will “continue to set the overall business intelligence strategy.” Random House’s distribution division RH Publisher Services is providing their client publishers with an “ongoing series of workshops, seminars, and collaborative […]
Announced: Cambridge Uses Ingram for Logistics, and More
Cambridge University Press has a long-term logistics management agreement with Ingram Publisher Services to manage all warehousing and physical fulfillment of their U.S. inventory, effective June 1. Cambridge will continue to handle order processing and customer service. They already use Lightning Source for POD manufacturing. Cambridge coo Peter Phillips calls it “a key step in our own evolution as more and more of the content we provide moves from a physical to a digital format.” Pegasus Books will expand its publishing program to the UK, Australia, and New Zealand with the launch of their spring/summer 2012 list. Titles will be available […]
Klimo to Leave Random House Children’s; New Leaders for Writers House; Rinaldi Joins Harper To Lead New Health and Wellness Line
Publisher of the Golden Books Young Readers Group Kate Klimo is stepping down as of March 31, Random House Children’s president and publisher Chip Gibson announced internally on Friday. Klimo has worked at Random House since 1984, and spearheaded the acquisition of Golden in 2001. She will be director of creative development at Media Assets Management Associates, where she “will continue turning our books into great TV shows.” (Klimo helped develop The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! into a PBS Kids show and “has six other shows based on our books in development.”) Gibson notes, “she […]
People, Etc.
At Goldberg McDuffie Communications, Kathleen Zrelak has been promoted to vp, director of publicity. Author of PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM Kyung-Sook Shin has won the Man Asian Literary Prize, receiving $30,000. Translator Chi-Young Kim also received US$5,000. The Bancroft Prize for history is being shared this year by Anne Hyde’s Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860; Daniel Rodgers’ Age of Fracture; and Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement. As part of the relocation of Bonnier’s Weldon Owen from Australia to London, Martina Challis has been […]
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Former Macmillan president Brian Napack will join media private equity firm Providence Equity Partners as a senior advisor. He will also join the board of educational software company Blackboard, Inc. Napack “will work with Providence to identify and manage new investment opportunities in education and media and to support the firm’s existing portfolio companies.” He left Macmillan at the end of 2011. Managing Director and head of Providence’s education practice Peter Wilde says, “Brian has an exceptional track record of launching and leading businesses operating at the intersection of technology and media, education and entertainment, an area where we are […]