Chantal Restivo- Alessi has joined HarperCollins as chief digital officer, reporting to Brian Murray, and filling the position vacated by Charlie Redmayne when he joined Pottermore. She will also sit on the company’s executive committee. In her new role, Restivo-Alessi, most recently head of media corporate finance at ING Bank in London, will be responsible for leading the overall global digital strategy for the company, manage the commercial relationships with existing and new digital partners, and grow the digital revenues worldwide, working closely with all the divisions of the company worldwide. Leslie Hulse, svp digital business development, will report to […]
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Amber Guetebier has been promoted to editor at Red Wheel Weiser Books and Conari Press. She was formerly assistant editor. Chad Harbach won the Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction Award for The Art of Fielding; Tea Obreht won the Quality Paperback Club’s New Voices Award for her debut novel The Tiger’s Wife, and Conor Grennan received the QBPC’s nonfiction New Visions award for Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal. Author Toni Morrison is among the 13 new recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom–along with former University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt, whose latest memoir was just announced. […]
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Sourcebooks has promoted Barbara Briel to svp, chief operating officer, “responsible for oversight of Sourcebooks’ daily operations, including driving performance measures and strategic planning activities throughout the company.” She joined the company in 2004 as accounting manager, and in 2007 was named vp, director of administration and finance. Additionally, Nick Martinelli has been promoted to web development manager; Danielle Jackson moves up to senior publicist; Jessica Zulli is now ebook production coordinator; Kristin Zelazko has been promoted to senior production editor for the Fire and Jabberwocky imrints; William Riley moves up to senior graphic designer; and Jodi Welter is now graphic […]
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R. Todd Noden has joined Books-A-Million as cfo, replacing Brian White, who resigned from the company “to pursue other endeavors.” Noden was most recently cfo of Dobbs Mills and vp, accounting and financial analysis of Racetrac Petroleum. Scholastic svp, chief accounting officer Dennis Campagna will resign from the company on April 30 to pursue other opportunities, according to an SEC filing. He joined Scholastic only last December. Current evp, chief administrative officer and cfo Maureen O’Connell will once again act as chief accounting officer on an interim basis, as she did before Campagna was hired, until a permanent replacement is […]
Tor/Forge to Go DRM Free
As you may know already, on Tuesday afternoon Macmillan division Tom Doherty Associates–comprising the Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen imprints–announced on their blog that their entire list of ebooks will be available DRM-free “by early July.” In a separate, following notice, Tor UK said that it will do the same. They added that “we are consulting with our authors at the moment and we will announce our plans in more detail in due course.” President and publisher Tom Doherty writes: “Our authors and readers have been asking for this for a long time. They’re a technically sophisticated bunch, […]
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At the Penguin Press, Lindsay Whalen has been promoted to editor. Chul R. (Charles) Kim will join the Museum of Modern Art’s department of publications as associate publisher on May 7. He was most recently director of publications and editor in chief at the Cooper-Hewitt. Prior to that he was editorial, publicity, and rights director at Welcome Rain Publishers. Lauren Lavelle has been promoted to assistant publicity manager at Scribner. McNally Jackson Books events coordinator Michele Filgate is leaving on May 3. She will work part-time as a bookseller at the Community Bookstore in Brooklyn, Shelf Awareness reports, and spend more time on her […]