Sarah Harrison Smith has been named children’s editor at the New York Times Book Review. She was most recently on the paper’s metropolitan desk. Scholastic unveiled the new cover designed by Kazu Kubuishi for HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, which will be published on August 27 (along with the other redesigned books in the series) at BEA Thursday morning. At the Audiobook Publishers Association’s Audie Awards ceremony last night at the New-York Historical Society, Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair (read by Colin Firth, Audible) was named named Audiobook of the Year and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (multi-voiced […]
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People, and Natan Award’s First Winner
Sourcebooks ceo Dominique Raccah was honored at the opening of BEA on Wednesday with their Industry Ambassador Award. Former IPG distribution executive Mark Suchomel has joined Perseus Books Group’s distribution client services group and will run a new division based in Chicago, Legato Publishing Group. It will operate as “an affiliate” of PGW, “leveraging some of PGW’s scale and best practices in serving independent publishers.” The Random House Publishing Group announced a number of promotions in its publicity department. Maria Braeckel has been promoted to assistant director of publicity, while Greg Kubie moves up to publicity manager. In addition, Michelle Jasmine has been promoted […]
Miller to Start Nonfiction Division for Macmillan, and More
Bob Miller will launch a new, standalone nonfiction division for Macmillan. He will start July 8, and hire “a small editorial staff” (he tells the WSJ he will have two editors), and aims to publish 36 books a year starting in early 2015. Miller says in the announcement, “I couldn’t be happier to return to my roots on 23rd Street, where I learned so many of the publishing values I’ve aspired to ever since. I’m very grateful to John and my Macmillan colleagues–new and old–for this chance to do what I love with such enthusiastic support.” Macmillan ceo John Sargent […]
People, Etc.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially has declared Tuesday as “G.P. Putnam’s Sons Day,” in recognition of the publisher’s 175th anniversary. Bloomberg said: “The story of G.P. Putnam’s Sons has it all – entrepreneurship, determination, romance, big dreams. It is a classic New York City story, and on this wonderful occasion, today, we join Putnam’s extended family and many readers across the world in looking ahead to the next exciting chapter.” Michael Foster, who bought control of the UK agency PFD and merged it with his MF Management in 2010 to form The Rights House, has sold his shares back […]
Another Chance at Frankfurt, As PLC Moves to Tuesday (October 8)
Even before TOC abruptly closed their business, we were already planning to move our Publishers Launch Frankfurt conference to Tuesday, October 8 — the main pre-Frankfurt conference day — after a successful run on the slightly-too-early Monday, so that more FBF attendees can make our event a regular part of their Frankfurt calendar. Last year’s remarkable PLC Frankfurt featured 11 c-level executives from publishers and retailers all over the world and this year’s program will include the same unique, high-level strategic and operational analysis of issues faced by trade publishers globally transitioning to a more digital world. We’ll continue the […]
Your Quick Guide to BEA
It’s almost here, so one more time, our links and resources to help you prepare for BEA (whether you’re going or not): – Our handy master BEA Schedule provides a comprehensive, day-by-day, hour-by-hour schedule of all the special events and educational sessions — and just a few selected signings– in a single file, which you can even download to your own computer. Share it with colleagues with this easy short link: publun.ch/BEA2013Sched BEA‘s own version of the schedule is here, and here. After today, we may dispatch Lunch at a non-lunch time of day, depending on what happens and how quickly we write […]