At Random House, Vintage Espanol publishing manager Jaime de Pablos will take over the position of director being vacated by Milena Alberti as she joins the company’s corporate development team. de Pablos will report to Vintage and Anchor publisher Anne Messitte. Milkweed Editions has received underwriting from Amazon.com for the publication Fancy Beasts by Alex Lemon and Extra Indians by Eric Gansworth. OverDrive has launched their first audiobook for Apple devices, which allows library patrons to download audiobooks from participating libraries as well as purchase from retailers. (Library audiobooks expire automatically.) They already have BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Mobile. Penguin […]
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BEA's CEO Panel Will Open Conference Day
BEA has rescheduled their “CEO Panel” discussion to make it the opening session on the morning of Tuesday, May 25 (the conference day before the show floor is open to all). For the first time, it will be the opening event for both the American Bookseller Association’s day of meetings as well as BEA’s own Big Ideas conference, bringing booksellers and the rest of the trade together in the room. Farrar, Straus publisher Jonathan Galassi will moderate a discussion of the Value of A Book, featuring: New Workman group publisher Bob MillerICM evp Esther NewbergIngram ceo Skip PrichardPenguin USA ceo […]
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Colin Fox will join Hyperion as executive editor next week, focusing on investigative journalism, politics, sports, pop culture, business, adventure, humor and general narrative nonfiction. He has been a senior editor at Simon & Schuster. Juliet Grames will join Soho Press as an editor on May 3. Most recently she was an editor at The Overlook Press. Random House announced three corporate appointments today. To fill Nina von Moltke’s old position they have promoted Ranjana Wingender to director, corporate development, continuing to report to ceo Markus Dohle. (She has been director, corporate projects.) Moving up in the same department is […]
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Nigel Roby, managing director of UK trade magazine The Bookseller, has reached an agreement “in principle” to buy the property from Nielsen. The magazine says that “negotiations are expected to conclude at the end of April. All the editorial, sales and marketing and events teams will remain in place.” At Wiley, Steve Miron is being promoted to svp of the STMS (scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly) division, effective May 1. He has been chief operating officer there since the announcement last October that Eric Swanson will retire in October 2010. Until that time, Swanson will serve as svp, government relations […]
Bookselling: Fire Destoys Wisconsin Store; Potential Buyers for Toronto Landmark
Cover to Cover Books & Gifts in Tomahawk, WI was destroyed by a fire yesterday morning. Fire officials said the cause was unknown, and the store owners could not be reached for comment by the local paper.Wausau Herald On the brighter side, Toronto Women’s Bookstore will remain open longer than planned, at least until the end of May, after two potential buyers emerged.Quill and Quire Also of interest to independent booksellers, today Google announced the renaming of their Local Business Center to Google Place, now with extra features. In certain cities you can pay to add prominent “tags” to your […]
New Penguin Initiative Provides Free Online Kids' Books and Donates Printed Books to Worthy Causes
Penguin Group and the Pearson Foundation have launched an online reading initiative, We Give Books, that simultaneously promotes reading with your kids and provides free physical books to non-profit literacy organizations. Every time you read a digital Penguin children’s book online at the site, the company will donate a physical to the charity that you select from a list of participating organizations. They note on the site, “one of the aims of We Give Books is to encourage the conversations with your child that will better ensure he or she becomes a life-long giver. As you consider the non-profit organizations […]