Hachette UK announced the creation of a unified children’s division, Hachette Children’s Group, bringing together Hachette Children’s, Orion Children’s, Little, Brown Children’s and Orchard Books as of January 1. Managing director of Egmont UK Hilary Murray Hill will join the company to serve as CEO of the new division on January 13. Marlene Johnson will run the line as ceo until then, and will retire from Hachette at the end of January 2015. Clare Somerville will be deputy managing director. No other jobs are affected by the consolidation; the company says “the aim of the merger is to develop new strengths in children’s […]
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Julia Cheiffetz will return to HarperCollins as executive editor for Dey Street Books, starting October 6. She had been editorial director at Amazon Publishing until recently, prior to which she worked at Harper and Harper Studio. Another longtime Amazon executive announced plans to leave the company. Bill Carr, 47, has worked at Amazon for 15 years, and currently serves as head of digital music and video. He plans to leave at the end of the year. A spokesperson told the WSJ Carr wanted to spend time with family and “has other plans after that but not in the near term […]
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Andrew Kidd “has decided to leave agenting” and will depart Aitken Alexander at the end of October after 6 years there. The announcement says he will “pursue a new path in the book industry,” apparently to be announced in November. Eric Price has joined Melville House in the newly created role of vp, business development. Previously he was director of sales and marketing at Quercus US and before then was associate publisher and coo at Grove Atlantic. At Penguin Random House US, Akiko Iwamoto has been promoted to regional sales director, Asia, while Mike Zaug moves up to regional sales director, […]
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Perseus announced internally on Monday “several key changes” in their international sales and rights business to fuel their growth, including a number of new appointments. A newly created vp of international sales and marketing will oversee the London and New York-based international sales teams from New York once a search is completed. VP of international sales and business development Chitra Bopardikar “has decided to depart the company to pursue new interests.” The company has created a new international operations & communications department, with Agustina Casal leading the new unit as director, reporting to Carolyn Savarese in the role. (Casal continues to work on the Faber Factory […]
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Jim Childs will become publisher of Rowman & Littlefield’s trade publishing group on October 13, 2014. He is currently president of Time Home Entertainment and publisher of Oxmoor House, where he has been employed since 2007. Childs will oversee the growing portfolio which includes the Globe Pequot Press units acquired earlier in the year, working in their offices in Guildford, CT and New York. R&L ceo Jed Lyons says in the announcement, “He’s one of the savviest and most creative people in our industry. We are delighted Jim has decided to take on the challenge of running what is now the largest regional publisher of […]
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Eleanor Chang will retire at the end of this year after serving for 25 years as chief financial officer for the ABA. A search is underway for a replacement. CEO Oren Teicher says, “My predecessors and I have relied on Ellie to do so many things, and we are forever in her debt. She and I have worked together for 24 years, and not only has she been a valued and trusted colleague, she has also become my good friend. I will miss her. So will ABA.” At NYU Press, Eric Zinner has been promoted to associate director in addition […]