We had a big launch on Friday for the latest editions of our free ebook samplers, BUZZ BOOKS 2015: Spring/Summer and BUZZ BOOKS 2015 Young Adult: Spring — with national press, thousands of downloads, and excited reviews from the fan base of passionate readers who look forward to these previews. As a reminder, you can get the complete “trade versions” of Buzz and Buzz YA directly from our site as EPUB files, or if you prefer, both titles are “read now” downloads at NetGalley — and you can find each one on Edelweiss. Or to get the consumer version on any platform (and share with readers and fans), both […]
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In Italy, general manager of Mondadori’s trade book division (as well as ceo of Einaudi, interim head of Mondadori publishing and chairman of Harlequin Mondadori) Riccardo Cavallero is leaving the company by the end of January. Last week, Mondadori Libri announced a number of new management appointments: CEO Ernesto Mauri is also chairman of the board; Enrico Selva Codde was promoted to managing director of Mondadori trade, working with vice chairman Gian Ferrari; and Antonio Porro was named managing director for education. Mauri says in the announcement: “The scenario of the publishing market is still declining and this means that we need to increasingly keep our […]
Early Looks At Over 60 of 2015’s Discovery Books
Today we publish new editions of our popular free ebook samplers, BUZZ BOOKS 2015: Spring/Summer and BUZZ BOOKS 2015 Young Adult: Spring. (The last time around we experimented with a separate YA collection and it was a clear hit, so Buzz Books YA is a standing part of the line going forward.) With 65 pre-publication excerpts between them, they are great preparation for next month’s Winter Institute 10 (over a dozen WI authors are sampled) as well as the full publishing season ahead. Most Lunch readers will want the full “trade versions,” which include detailed marketing and publicity info on […]
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At Paper Lantern Lit, Tara Sonin has been promoted to marketing associate. Liz Button has joined the ABA‘s content team as a writer/researcher for Bookselling This Week, and Naya Moss is a new hire on the booksellers’ association’s technology team, providing general technological assistance to ABA staff. Author or co-author of 21 books and well-known Jesus scholar Marcus Borg, 72, died on Wednesday. Harper One publisher Mark Tauber said in a statement, “His life and his work have been a challenge, a comfort and an inspiration to literally millions of readers and students over the years. Marcus was unafraid to follow the […]
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Agent Sara Megibow, who recently left the Nelson Literary Agency, is joining KT Literary. At Farrar, Straus, Brian Gittis and Steve Weil have both been promoted to assistant director of publicity. In addition, Sarah Scire has been promoted to publicist, and Lis McAvoy moves up to assistant publicist. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Stephanie Kim has been promoted to publicity manager. Rick Pascocello will leave his position as vp, executive marketing director at Penguin Random House at the end of the month after 23 years in publishing, mostly at Penguin. He can be reached at rpascocello@gmail.com. Imprint News: Carole Tonkinson‘s new inspirational lifestyle imprint at […]
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Vook co-founder Matt Cavnar has joined Broadway Video Ventures as general manager. Steve Quinn joins the Perseus Books Group in the newly formed position of assistant director, specialty retail sales on January 26. Previously he was specialty sales manager at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Quinn will report to senior director, gift sales Eric Green out of Perseus’ Boston office. At Crown/Hogarth, Alexis Washam has promoted to executive editor, while Nate Roberson is promoted to associate editor and Sarah Bedingfield moves up to assistant editor. Matt Inman has been promoted to senior editor for Crown Archetype and Three Rivers Press. At Little, Brown […]