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 […]
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Susan Canavan has been promoted to senior executive editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Alberto Rojas is joining Regnery Publishing as director of publicity on May 1. He was most recently senior director of publicity at Harper. Nathan Rostron has joined Bookish as editor, focusing on literature and fiction, mysteries and thrillers, and biography and memoir. He was most recently an assistant editor at Little, Brown. Former president and ceo of Bertelsmann Direct North America (which included the company’s book clubs) Stuart Goldfarb has joined Fullbridge at president. The Fullbridge Program is “a high-end boot camp that accelerates a successful transition between […]
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At Simon & Schuster, Colin Shields has been promoted to vp, director of digital sales. He will continue to have responsibility for the print business at Amazon.com, as well as digital sales for Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Sony, Kobo, and others. Ryan Doherty has been promoted to senior editor at Random House’s trade paperback unit. In addition, Kelli Fillingim moves up to associate editor. Stephanie Gorton has joined Open Road as acquisitions manager, reporting to Tina Pohlman. Previously she was an editor at Overlook Press. In addition, consulting editorial director Marjorie Braman will now become strategic advisor, author brands, […]
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Lisa Tomasello will join the Macmillan sales department as a national account manager for adult trade titles, calling on Costco, BJ’s, and their distribution partners, starting April 23. In her last job, she was in charge of the Walmart business for Simon & Schuster, where she worked for 8 years. Previously, she worked at Scholastic, Golden Books and Random House. At the Portfolio, Sentinel, and Current imprints, Amanda Pritzker has been promoted to publicity manager; Brooke Carey has been promoted to editor; Emily Angell has been promoted to associate editor; and Jacquelynn Burke has been promoted to associate publicist. At Simon & […]
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Tina Andreadis has been promoted to vp, senior executive director of publicity for Harper, Ecco, Amistad, Harper Perennial, Harper paperbacks, Harper Audio, and, effective immediately, It Books, and Harper Design. At Viking Penguin, Meghan Fallon has been promoted to publicist, and Rebecca Lang and Elaine Broeder both move up to associate publicist. Todd Mullins has been named national accounts manager, special markets at Chronicle Books. Previously he was vp, sales at Hero Arts. Adding to the voices on the Pulitzer Prize controversy is fiction judge Maureen Corrigan. Writing in the Washington Post, she says: “Like everyone else, we three jurors […]