At Macmillan, Dan Schwartz has been promoted to vp, digital product services, adding a variety of responsibilities to his current role managing the strategic and day-to-day operations of the trade ebook group, among them college ebook production and helping to set corporate digital strategy. The company says their ebook group now comprises a more than $100 million business. Workman Publishing has formally unveiled the Workman Speakers Bureau, which former Random House executive Carol Schneider has been building since last May. (Schneider ran the Random House portion of the Random House Speakers Bureau among her responsibilities there.) Workman has enrolled 17 of the house’s authors […]
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At Artisan Books, Allison McGeehon has been promoted to director of publicity and marketing. At Holt, Melanie DeNardo has been promoted to associate director of publicity, reporting to Pat Eisemann. Former coo of Open Road Integrated Media Chris Lederer has joined AlixPartners as a director in its media practice division. Elly Weisenberg Kelly has joined independent book publicity firm JKSCommunications. She was most recently publicity manager at Grand Central. After a lengthy investigation, the Montana Attorney General concluded that author Greg Mortenson mismanaged the charity he established and helped to run, the Central Asia Institute, and found that he personally profited […]
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Editorial director of Book Business and Publishing Executive magazines Noelle Skodzinski has left the company, publisher Matt Steinmetz confirms to DBW. Palgrave Macmillan is launching a new imprint, Palgrave Pivot, that will blend journal and digital-short publishing models. At an average of 100 pages, they will publish works of a length “between the journal article and the conventional monograph” and “undertake to publish within 3 months of acceptance after full peer review.” The focus is on “new important research, or are a review of an area with broad appeal.” Publishing both digitally and on demand, they will sell titles individually as well as in […]
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Marysue Rucci will return to Simon & Schuster as vp, editor-in-chief on April 2. She was most recently editorial director at Putnam and originally worked at S&S from 1997 through 2010. “Marysue will be the leader and architect of Simon & Schuster’s fiction list,” said publisher Jonathan Karp in a statement. “She will supervise all our fiction acquisitions, build her own list of authors–both novelists and nonfiction writers–and provide counsel to our editors. Under her guidance we expect to be an industry leader, publishing novels of the highest quality and the greatest appeal. We are all delighted that Marysue is […]
Announced: Cambridge Uses Ingram for Logistics, and More
Cambridge University Press has a long-term logistics management agreement with Ingram Publisher Services to manage all warehousing and physical fulfillment of their U.S. inventory, effective June 1. Cambridge will continue to handle order processing and customer service. They already use Lightning Source for POD manufacturing. Cambridge coo Peter Phillips calls it “a key step in our own evolution as more and more of the content we provide moves from a physical to a digital format.” Pegasus Books will expand its publishing program to the UK, Australia, and New Zealand with the launch of their spring/summer 2012 list. Titles will be available […]
Briefs: Encyclopedia Britannica Discontinues Print Edition; Vieser Werlag Declares Bankruptcy; and More
Encyclopedia Britannica will no longer publish print editions after more than 244 years of doing so, the NYT first reported Tuesday with an advance look at the press release, with the 32-volume set published in 2010 deemed to be its last-ever. (That edition has sold just 8,000 copies, a far cry from Britannica’s peak in 1990, when 120,000 sets sold; there are another 4,000 copies of the 2010 edition still sitting in the company’s warehouse.) Instead Britannica will concentrate on its online business and a wide range of editorial products, including several different digital versions of Encyclopedia that has, to […]