Crown has announced rollout plans for 41: A PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER by former president George W. Bush . CBS News will broadcast the first interviews, conducted by Bob Schieffer, on Sunday, November 9 — first on “Sunday Morning” and then on “Face the Nation.” The Today show will feature the author on November 10, and the author and his father interview by Jenna Bush Hager on November 11. Crown has additional broadcast appearances and says, “President Bush will conduct a number of public book signings in the weeks to follow, with details for those events to be announced at a later date.” […]
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Steady Trade Results in June and July
The AAP released monthly sales statistics for both June and July, which remained consistent with the pattern from earlier in the year, though perked up in July. Most of the year’s growth is coming children’s and young adult books, which have been up year-over-year for all seven reported months, though you can see in our chart below that those gains faded in June and July. Meanwhile, adult sales turned around in July — gaining $13 million, or 3.7 percent — after falling for four straight months, mostly on weaker hardcover sales. (Even in July, adult hardcover sales were down $5.1 million, […]
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Michelle Aielli has been named executive director of publicity for Hachette Books. She moves over from Little, Brown, where she was most recently publicity director. At Simon & Schuster, Jennifer Grojean has been promoted to director, national accounts for special markets, while Bianca Johnson moves up to manager, adult custom & proprietary sales. In addition, Alex Maurer has joined as manager, children’s custom & proprietary sales. Previously she was senior coordinator, custom & proprietary sales at Penguin. At HarperCollins Children’s, Nellie Kurtzman has joined as director of integrated marketing. Previously she was marketing director at Little, Brown Books for Young […]
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Margot Schupf has been promoted to publisher of Time Home Entertainment, effective immediately, succeeding Jim Childs, who left earlier this month. Schupf joined the division as associate publisher in June. She reports to svp, consumer marketing + revenue Jeff Blatt. Reporting to Schupf are TIHE editorial director Steve Koepp and Oxmoor House editorial director Leah McLaughlin, well as executive director, business development Suzanne Albert, executive director, marketing Susan Hettleman, and executive director, production & project management Carol Pittard. Linda Scalissi has joined 3 Seas Literary Agency as an agent, looking to represent women’s fiction, thrillers, young adult, mysteries and romance. We Need […]
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Pearson chief financial officer for the past eight years Robin Freestone has told the board “he would like to step down…before the end of 2015 to explore a range of other interests.” A search is underway for a replacement and Freestone will remain in the job until a successor is named. At Penguin Random House, Christopher Dufault has been promoted to the newly created position of vp, director, Penguin hardcover sales development. At Macmillan Children’s, Molly Brouillette has been promoted to associate director, publicity while Mary Van Akin moves up to senior publicist. At HarperCollins Children’s, Christopher Hernandez and Stephanie Stein […]
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Media and entertainment industry executive Lauren Zalaznick has been appointed as the first independent board member of Penguin Random House. Zalaznick currently publishes The LZ Sunday Paper, a newsletter about women in business, media, and culture, and previously held a variety of leadership positions during a 12-year career at NBCUniversal, including president of Bravo Media; president of NBCUniversal Women & Lifestyle Entertainment Networks (including Oxygen and Telemundo); and evp, chairman of entertainment, digital networks and integrated media. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is creating HMH Labs, an incubation effort “designed to fuel innovation and growth in education through the ideation, experimentation and rapid […]