Hilary Redmon will move over to the Random House imprint on December 14 as executive editor, reporting to Andy Ward. Redmon has been at Ecco for the past four years, and will acquire and edit history, science, religion, memoir, and narrative nonfiction titles. At Penguin Random House’s international sales & marketing group, Filipe Silva is named associate director, Latin American and Spanish-language sales. At Sourcebooks, Anna Michels is being promoted to editor, and Liz Otte is being promoted to national accounts manager – gift and regional. At Open Road, Rachel Krupitsky has been promoted to senior marketing manager, overseeing marketing of […]
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At Catapult, Jennifer Abel Kovitz has been promoted to associate publisher and director of marketing, while Julie Buntin moves up to director of writing programs. The Costco Pennie’s Pick for December is Danielle Steel‘s Precious Gifts. This year on American Express Small Business Saturday, the Obama family visited Washington’s recently-opened Upshur Street Books. They purchased Purity, by Jonathan Franzen; Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, by Salman Rushdie; Elske, On Fortune’s Wheel, and Jackaroo, by Cynthia Voigt; A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd; Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli; Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, by Jeff Kinney; and Dork Diaries […]
People: Tamblyn Named Kobo CEO; Wheaton Appointed COO of Penguin Random House Canada; and More
Kobo has promoted Michael Tamblyn to chief executive officer, effective January 2016, as well as vice executive manager of the Rakuten Global eBook Business (which includes Overdrive and Aquafadas). He succeeds Takahito Aiki, who remains with the company as chairman of Kobo and managing executive officer of the global ebook business. Tamblyn said in the announcement: “I am looking forward to my role in ensuring our parent company, Rakuten, achieves its vision of enriching every stage of a reader’s life. Together with OverDrive and Aquafadas, we want the best possible reading experiences for schools, libraries, institutions, corporations and consumers, enabling readers to buy […]
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At Perseus, Leslie Jobson has been promoted to senior manager, field sales, while Louisa Brody has been promoted to senior manager, group marketing. Interim director of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Stan Jantz will formally become executive director of the organization as of December 1. Caitlin Ellis has left HarperCollins, where she was most recently manager of domestic rights, to move to Boston. She may be reached at caitlin.ann.ellis@gmail.com. Longtime editor at Prentice Hall and later co-founder of Winthrop Publishers, Paul E. O’Connell, 90, died November 14. Amazon has leased distribution space at the “massive” Liberty View Industrial Plaza in Brooklyn‘s Sunset Park for at least […]
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Doug Foot is retiring from Penguin Random House Canada, where he was evp, chief financial officer. Succeeding him, effective immediately, is chief operating officer Barry Gallant, who will oversee the finance, contracts, and information technology departments while keeping responsibility for publishing and sales operations, as well as warehouse and office administration. Foot, who first joined Random House of Canada in 1993, will staying through March 2016 “to assist with year-end and ongoing projects.” Newly reporting to Gallant are Cheralyn Wheeler, controller; Samantha North, director, contracts; and Ed Brooks, director, I.T. Melanie Britton and Donna Miller and their teams, as well as James Rowan, […]
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Mysteries & thrillers editor Dennis Drabelle has retired from the Washington Post after more than 31 years at the paper, Book World editor Ron Charles posted on Twitter. Former vp of books, digital strategy and chief product officer at Barnes & Noble College Jade Roth has joined Flat World as svp, strategy and content. Additionally, former chairman of Pearson Higher Education in the US and Canada Bill Barke has joined the company as executive chairman of the board of directors. Once known as Flat World Knowledge and pitched as an open source textbook developer, the company now calls itself an “enabler of competency-based learning and digital […]