Robin Richardson will join Tommy Nelson as senior director of marketing starting December 18. Previously she was vice president of digital for RFD-TV. The Noble Prize site has posted the text of Olga Tokarczuk‘s Nobel Lecture. The Book Industry Study Group released their 2019 update to the BISCAC codes (the detailed genre/subject codes that tell trading partners and their machines how to categorize your books). Penguin Random House ceo Markus Dohle shares his annual year-end letter of thanks to company staff. Among the company’s notable accomplishments in 2019 was a string of acquisitions and investments: “As one major priority, we long […]
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Macmillan Learning ceo Ken Michaels has announced plans to resign at the end of January, after running the company since April 2015. General manager Susan Winslow will lead the company after he departs along with the group’s senior leadership team, and all four will report to Macmillan CEO John Sargent. (Update: Following our query the company clarified that Sargent will lead Macmillan Learning going forward, with the four-person management team all reporting to him in that role.) Sargent commented, “Ken has done a great job leading Macmillan Learning, especially in this quickly evolving market. He is a driven leader, a constant […]
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Todd Noden has been promoted to president at Books-a-Million. He was chief operating officer and chief financial officer, and now he adds leadership of the company’s store operations group to his other responsibilities. James Meader left his position as vp, associate publisher at Picador last week and will join Vintage Anchor on December 16 as executive director of publicity and social media, reporting to Suzanne Herz. Register of Copyrights Karyn Temple will leave her position on January 3 to join the Motion Picture Association of America as global general counsel. At Scholastic Trade, Zachary Clark becomes senior editor. Rachel Matson […]
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Executive director of publicity, Knopf and Pantheon Paul Bogaards has been promoted to the additional role of deputy publisher, reporting to Tony Chirico. He will have additional responsibility for overseeing marketing for Knopf and Pantheon while continuing to serve as group spokesperson and lead publicity liaison. Newly reporting to Bogaards is svp, associate publisher, Knopf and Pantheon Chris Gillespie. Robyn Bender has been promoted to senior vice president, business operations and strategy at Penguin Children’s. Adam Kane will join Naval Institute Press as director. Previously, he was editor-in-chief at University of Oklahoma Press. The American Library Association sold their longtime […]
Remembering Susan Kamil
Random House executives and a formidable roster of authors provided a rich, heartfelt and inspiring celebration of the exuberant life of Susan Kamil, who died in September, on Thursday afternoon at the New York Times Center. Random House publishing group president and publisher Gina Centrello said emotionally, “If I am successful at all today, it is due in large part to Susan’s guiding hand.” As Centrello recalled, “About 15 years ago, I was appointed publisher of Random House. Prior to this, all of my experience in publishing was in commercial publishing. Literary publishing was a different world; a very different […]
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George Witte has been promoted to senior vice president and editor-in-chief of the St. Martin’s publishing group. Tina Jordan has been promoted to deputy editor at the New York Times Book Review. David Kelly become managing editor. Elizabeth Egan joins as preview editor; she was previously Glamour’s books editor and worked at Workman and Simon & Schuster. Lauren Truskowski has joined Gallery as associate director of publicity. She previously worked at Penguin and HarperCollins. In the UK, Ebury will focus on nonfiction, and publishing director Gillian Green will leave in spring 2020 as a result after 12 years there. The […]