Kim Anderson will re-join Chronicle Books as vice president of sales & marketing, overseeing the marketing, domestic sales, international sales, and subsidiary rights teams. Previously, she worked in the Chronicle Books sales department from 2003 to 2013, and has spent the past five years as a sales and marketing consultant for such companies as Insight Editions, Mrs. Grossman’s, becker&mayer, and Galison. Steve Marshall joined Ingram Content Group as vp, IT services. Prior to Ingram, Steve was the vice president of infrastructure at C&S Wholesale Grocers in Keene, NH. Claire McGinnis has been promoted to associate director of publicity at Riverhead. At Thames & […]
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Eamon Dolan will join Simon & Schuster Publishing Group as vice president and executive editor starting October 1. Dolan was most recently with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he ran his own imprint, Eamon Dolan Books, which was shut down in July. Simon & Schuster president and publisher Jonathan Karp says, “Eamon will continue to do what he has done so brilliantly for years: Identify, edit, and publish some of the best writers and thinkers in the culture – authors whose works are relevant to understanding our times and how they are changing, and capable of being just as meaningful in the […]
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At Putnam, Ashley Hewlett is promoted to senior publicity manager and Elena Hershey to publicity manager. Hannah Finne has been promoted to the newly created position of data manager at Holiday House, overseeing data, metadata, and digital assets.
Barnes & Noble Opens New Store In Maryland
After a long gap, Barnes & Noble opens another concept store — their sixth — in the mall in Columbia, MD today. The 17,000-square-foot store features a new design for their cafe, now at the front of the store without any walls or barriers, and the cookbook section is right next to it. As the local Patch report notes, “There are three community tables throughout the bookstore, a concept which is part of the new prototype.” (From the pictures, two of those are in that large open cafe.) Sales staff will have tablets to help customers find merchandise, and there are […]
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Longtime New York Magazine contributing editor Boris Kachka has been named books editor as parent company New York Media aims to triple book coverage across the magazine and their various blogs. Kachka says, “We haven’t really had someone overseeing books and it fell between the cracks too often. Books aren’t like a lot of other media; there’s the opportunity to seed them through lots of different sections.” NY Magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss adds: “Books have for years been pretty big areas of interest in our universe and on the site, according to all the metrics we have. We thought this was […]
Buzz Books Nominations
Please note that our seasonal email invitations have gone out to nominate titles for inclusion in the forthcoming Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer and Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Spring/Summer samplers. If you haven’t received yours for any reason, or for more information, please contact Robin Dellabough, robin@publishersmarketplace.com. The deadline for nominations is October 12. (Meanwhile, you can continue to enjoy the packed Fall/Winter 2018 editions.)