As we did around Thanksgiving, we are opening up PublishersMarketplace.com for a brief free trial, lasting through January 1 — which will be the last opportunity like this for quite some time, so feel free to share if you wish. And, as we noted before the holidays, PM members can load the simple PM News App on…
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One more pre-holiday message. As usual, Publishers Lunch will be suspended for a bit, while PublishersMarketplace.com remains open all the time and will be logging deals, news, jobs and other items as they come in, albeit at a more leisurely pace. (14 new jobs were posted this week alone if you are in the market…
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Mike Evans will join McGraw-Hill on January 1 as chief financial officer. He was chief operating officer and CFO at Renaissance, which specializes in pre-K-12 learning analytics. Longtime associate art director at Knopf Peter Mendelsund has been named creative director of The Atlantic, and his frequent design partner Oliver Munday will become senior art director, with…
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At Lerner Publishing Group, Rachel Zugschwert has been promoted to vp, marketing, and Greg Hunter to editorial director, Graphic Universe, both effective January 1, 2019. Forthcoming Zadie Smith‘s first short story collection GRAND UNION will be published by Penguin Press in fall 2019, and in the UK by Hamish Hamilton on October 3, 2019. It will contain ten…
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Jennifer Barth has been promoted to senior vice president, Harper. At Simon & Schuster Children’s Rebecca Vitkus has been promoted to production editor. Lisa Lauria has joined as editor for Simon Spotlight; she was most recently in the marketing and advertising department at Toys ‘R Us. Cassie Malmo has joined as publicity manager; she was most recently senior publicist at Disney Publishing Worldwide. Lauren Carr will join…
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We recently marked the 17th anniversary of PublishersMarketplace.com for our site members, though we have been too busy with end of year news to properly note the occasion for our wide audience of free newsletter readers as well. (Publishers Lunch is older by about a year and half, though we didn’t know we were starting…