Amazon’s Spotlight Pick for March is Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid and their Featured Debut is The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell. The rest of the list: The Impossible Climb, by Mark Synnott The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe The Lost Night,…
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Macmillan is restructuring its sales team “to more closely align with the needs of Macmillan’s customers and its publishers.” Their separate major account teams will be eliminated, with a single, unified trade team under John Edwards, promoted to the new position of vp, trade and Canada sales. Svp, online digital sales operations and analysis Tom…
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San Francisco Chronicle books editor John McMurtrie announced on Twitter on Wednesday, “I got laid off.” He added, “The bright side? More time for reading.” (Separately, arts and entertainment editor and Sunday datebook editor Leba Hertz tell us she is retiring at the end of the week, by her choice.) We queried editor-in-chief Audrey Cooper…
Silicon Valley Foundation Crankstart Is New Booker Prize Funder
The flicker of false (and you might say falsely-targeted) hope in the UK trade that a new sponsor for the Booker Prize might let them remove Americans from contention has probably been extinguished — since the new sponsors live in California. (The Booker Foundation insists, “A sponsor or funder has no say over the rules.”)…
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Erin Simpson has been named director of the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau, reporting to Brian Belfiglio. Along with the appointment, the company is transitioning the speakers bureau into an in-house venture, effective April 1. Since it was founded in 2008, their speakers bureau had been operated by Greater Talent Network on behalf of the…
People: NYRB Names New Editors, and More
The New York Review of Books named two new co-editors, Emily Greenhouse, 32, and Gabriel Winslow-Yost, 33, to succeed Ian Buruma, who left last September. Greenhouse was most recently the managing editor of The New Yorker, but was an assistant at NYRB in 2011 and 2012. Winslow-Yost has worked at NYRB since 2009, most recently…