Holt has reached beyond traditional circles to hire Jill Lamar as their new editor in chief, starting March 14, reporting to division publisher and president Steve Rubin. (Lamar will oversee the Henry Holt imprint; other Holt imprints such as Metropolitan Books and Times Books will continue to be run separately.) As Rubin said to us, “why just reshuffle the deck again?” He notes, “Jill has been universally respected as the director of Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers program since 1999 and was the driving force behind B&N Recommends.” Prior to her 13 years at BN, in the mid-90s […]
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Phil Revzin is resigning from his position as senior editor at St. Martin’s to become editor at large for Bloomberg News, covering the international financial markets.Emma Hopkin is leaving her position as managing director for Macmillan Children’s Books UK on April 21st “to pursue an exciting new challenge elsewhere in children’s publishing.” She first joined the company as a marketing director of Pan, moving to the children’s division two years later, where she was appointed m.d. in 2005. At Interweave’s book division, Elisabeth Malzahn has been promoted to marketing director, and Erica Smith joined the united as an editor. She […]
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John Evans of DIESEL Bookstores in California and Matt Norcross of McLean & Eakin Booksellers in Petosky, Michigan have been nominated to join the ABA board for three-year terms, and Ken White of San Francisco State University Bookstore has been put up for a second term. Becky Anderson of Anderson’s Bookshops will take over from Michael Tucker as ABA president and Steve Bercu of BookPeople will serve as vice president/secretary. Gonzalo Ferreyra will join Weldon Owen in San Francisco as director of marketing, print and digital on February 14. Previously, he was vp of sales at VIZ Media and director […]
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Diane Cox has bought Whittier, CA’s The Little Old Bookshop and will reopen it this week as Half Off Books. Item Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse in La Cañada Flintridge, Calif., will re-open Monday in an expanded location. The store will have an Espresso Book Machine and host events.La Canada Online But The Muses Bookstore in Morganton, NC is closing after 40 years, calling the rise of ereading the “last nail” in the coffin. Item And Seattle bookshop Twice Sold Tales will relinquish its store in the city’s University District and sell books exclusively online.Seattle P-I
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Lia Ronnen joined Artisan Books as executive editor and associate publisher. She was executive editor at Melcher Media for 10 years. Millicent Bennett will join Free Press as a senior editor on February 22. She has been at Random House for the past 3 years. Digital Book World community leader Guy Gonzalez is leaving F+W Media at the end of the month. Matt Mullin, who worked on DBW among his assignments, will move over from the F+W events team to serve as DBW community relations/marketing manager. In the UK, Sam Humphreys will leave Picador to become publisher of the Serpent’s […]
IPA Officer Under Attack In Egypt
The International Publishers Association reported in an e-mail this morning that the organization’s vice president Ibrahim El Moallem “is under attack, physically,” right now. “Ibrahim says that the people on the street have gathered before his publishing house, Dar El Shorouk. They are defending him.” The IPA will post bulletins via @ipasecretary on Twitter.