Mark Oppegard, ceo of bankrupt NBC Acquisition Corp.–the owner of Nebraska Book Co.–will retire after 14 years leading the company and 42 years of service in all. He will stay on as evp “during a transition period that’s expected to last several months.” COO since 1999 Barry Major takes over as ceo. SVP at the college store division’s Neebo brand Steven Clemente moves up to coo. He joined the company in 2010. Report While McGraw-Hill is in “the final stages” of their search for a new head for their education division prior to its spinoff at the end of the […]
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Jon Thurber, who has been books editor at the Los Angeles Times since 2010, his latest posting in over 40 years at the newspaper, is leaving “at the beginning of the summer.” The announcement does not name a replacement for position. Kathy Davis has joined Harlequin as acquisitions editor, supporting the newly acquired Heartsong Presents program. Peter Collingridge is the latest well-known epublishing recruit for Safari Books Online, where he will serve as vp of product development. He will work out of London initially, but will relocate to the San Francisco Bay area this summer. Laura Dawson will join Bowker on […]
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R. Todd Noden has joined Books-A-Million as cfo, replacing Brian White, who resigned from the company “to pursue other endeavors.” Noden was most recently cfo of Dobbs Mills and vp, accounting and financial analysis of Racetrac Petroleum. Scholastic svp, chief accounting officer Dennis Campagna will resign from the company on April 30 to pursue other opportunities, according to an SEC filing. He joined Scholastic only last December. Current evp, chief administrative officer and cfo Maureen O’Connell will once again act as chief accounting officer on an interim basis, as she did before Campagna was hired, until a permanent replacement is […]
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Jennifer LaBracio has joined Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as associate director of marketing. She was most recently senior marketing manager at HMH Children’s. At HarperCollins UK, Erin Roy has joined as marketing communications director and Rufus Weston has been named customer insight director. Roy was most recently associate publisher at IPC Media and Weston was previously head of digital insight at the BBC global news division. Bookmasters will distribute Pearson Mexico‘s educational titles into the US and Canada. Digital book manufacturer IBT Global has acquired Castleton, NY-based printer Hamilton Printing Company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, […]
People: Morrison to Lead Picador
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 […]
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 […]