Kevin Doughten will join Crown as senior editor on September 24, focusing on non-fiction. He was most recently an editor at Viking. Olga Rogozina has joined the Van Lear Agency in Moscow as both a literary agent and contracts manager. Previously she was foreign rights manager at Astrel. Founder of Chicago’s 10-store Beck’s Bookstores, Bob Beck, 91, died last week at Northwestern Hospital. “Today, a marketing major would say he had a business plan. Back then, it was called an angle. He sold books at Beck’s for less than the college bookstores charged, and he paid more when the used […]
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Business Book Nominees; September Picks
The shortlist has been announced for the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson (Crown Business, Profile) The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust, John Coates (The Penguin Press, Fourth Estate) Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power, Steve Coll (The Penguin Press, Allen Lane) Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster; Little Brown UK) What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits Of Markets, Michael J. Sandel (FSG, Allen Lane) Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence, William […]
People: New Nonfiction Executives at Ballantine Bantam Dell; Burtenshaw Exits Reed
Ballantine Bantam Dell announced a realignment of its nonfiction publishing as well as new executive hires and promotions overseeing the department, similar to the division’s recent reorganization of its fiction publishing. Jennifer Tung will join BDD on September 17 in the new role of vp, editorial director, nonfiction, reporting to Libby McGuire. Tung was most recently deputy editor of RedBook, and she will work across all formats and acquire and edit narrative, prescriptive, and brand-focused nonfiction. Executive editors Pamela Cannon and Mamie Cochran will now report to Tung. In addition, Richard Callison will be promoted to associate publisher, nonfiction, also […]
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Ben Adams will join PublicAffairs as senior editor on September 24. Previously he was a senior editor at Bloomsbury. At Holt, Jason Liebman has been promoted to associate director of online marketing. Tal Goretsky will join Scribner as art director on September 17. He was most recently senior designer at Penguin Press. Mike Underwood has joined Angry Robot as sales and marketing manager. He was most recently at Wybel Marketing Group, representing publishers such as Dark Horse Comics, Night Shade Books, Felony & Mayhem Press, and more to trade and wholesale accounts across the Midwest. Tamra Tuller has joined Chronicle […]
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Executive director of publicity at Picador James Meader has also been named publicist-at-large at Henry Holt, effective immediately, formalizing an ongoing arrangement with the imprint on select hardcover campaigns. Meader will continue to report to Picador publisher Stephen Morrison and will also add “a dotted line” to Holt deputy publisher Maggie Richards. “James is creative and enthusiastic, a book lover with real insight into the fundamental dynamics of the marketplace. His experience and knowledge will be a great asset to Henry Holt,” publisher Stephen Rubin said in a statement. Also at Holt, Joanna Levine has been promoted to assistant editor. […]
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In further executive turnover at Lagardere Publishing, ceo of Hachette Australia and chairman of Hachette New Zealand Malcolm Edwards “has indicated his desire to retire at the end of 2013, after nearly 20 years at the helm.” He will be succeeded by current sales and marketing director Matt Richell, who for now becomes deputy managing director of Hachette Australia, reporting to Edwards. He will take over as ceo of Hachette Australia on February 1, 2013, reporting to Hachette UK’s Commercial Director. From February 2013 until the end of the year, Edwards will serve as part-time non-executive Chairman of Hachette Australia, […]