Donald Linn will take over as director of the University of Chicago Press’s Chicago Distribution Center, replacing the recently retired Donald Collins, starting July 16. Linn was owner and ceo of Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, and most recently worked with Firebrand Associates in their consulting division. University of Chicago Press director Garrett Kiely says, “He brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to this position. The CDC does a great job of serving the needs of its clients and the market, and Don will help to position us for the future.” UK sales and marketing head of DK Catherine Bell will become […]
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People, Etc.: Bloomsbury Buys Appled Visual Arts
Bloomsbury has acquired Switzerland’s Applied Visual Arts Publishing for approximately £1.73 million in cash in three annual installments. The company publishes 20 to 30 books a year by academics for students and professionals in the applied visual arts and recorded sales of £1.82 million in 2011. Bloomsbury’s head of visual arts Kathryn Earle will run the line as part of their Academic & Professional division. The company promises synergies with other recent acquisitions such as Fairchild Books and the forthcoming Fashion Photography Archive as well as the existing Berg and Visual Arts list. Indiana University has established a new Office of […]
Hue-Man Bookstore In Harlem to Close, For Now
Harlem’s Hue-Man Bookstore told customers by e-mail that it will close on July 31, the end of their lease. The store staff tries to position the move as a new beginning rather than an ending: “Closing the existing format of Hue-Man is forward thinking on our part and as we take pause to re-imagine the future of books and how to ensure that their purpose of entertaining, imparting knowledge and honing creativity is preserved, we find no viable alternative but to go back to the drawing board. Closing our beloved bookstore, I assure you was a very hard decision for […]
With Spinoff Official, Harper UK ceo Barnsley Anticipates “More Clout” While Morrow Restructures Publicity and Marketing Departments
With News Corp making the spinoff of its entire publishing business official, it remains to be seen how the newly formed company will operate over the next few months, pending approval, and afterwards, presuming regulatory bodies give the OK for the split. The new business will start life with cash reserves and without any debt, and Rupert Murdoch, talking to Bloomberg Thursday, was appropriately bullish: “Our publishing business is more valuable than people give us credit for…There are great digital opportunities in publishing, and net-net, around the world, we’ll be increasing our numbers and increasing our costs and hopefully increasing […]
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Matthew Ballast has been promoted to acting director of publicity for Grand Central Publishing, replacing Jennifer Romanello, who recently departed the company. Rachel Burley has been appointed vp, director of open access at Wiley, where she will facilitate the identification of open access opportunities and lead the development of products, policy, technology, processes, sales, and marketing initiatives necessary to provide support to authors. She has been at the company for five years, most recently as vp, publisher for current protocols. At S&S Children’s, Jacqui Hudson has been named ebook developer and specialist for the Free Press, Aladdin, Simon Spotlight, Paula […]
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At Ten Speed Press, Lisa Westmoreland has been promoted to senior editor. Jeff Olson has been promoted to executive editor, Business at Apress, a division of Springer Science+Business Media. Marc Visnick has joined Callisto Media as director of sales. He was most recently director of sales, North America for Lonely Planet. Claire Kelley has joined Melville House Books as director, academic and library marketing. She was most recently marketing manager at Free Press. In addition, Dustin Kurtz has been named marketing manager, responsible for the company’s bookseller outreach programs and marketing for its series publications. Previously he was a buyer […]