Lisa Gallagher will join DeFiore and Company on November 3, after five years as an agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. In the Penguin Random House sales department, Lauren Monaco has the new assignment of vp, director of sales, paperback and Berkley/NAL, Penguin Publishing Group. Hank Cochrane serves as vp, director of sales development, trade paperback & Berkley/NAL. Jeff Weber will run the newly unified Penguin Random House adult online & digital sales team, as vp, director, online & digital sales. Kent Anderson is promoted to director, online & digital sales, Penguin Publishing Group and Michael Rotondo is promoted to director, online & digital sales, Random House adult. With the […]
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Abrams will launch a new gift and stationery imprint, Abrams Noterie, in February 2015. The line, which launches with four product collections and two journals, will comprise guided and blank journals, notecards, postcards, desk accessories, small gift books, and other inventive paper product formats. Overseeing Abrams Noterie is Karrie Witkin, who has the new role of editorial director, gift and paper products. (She has worked at Potter Craft and Metropolitan Museum of Art.) The creative team includes associate art director Hana Nakamura, who was at Mucca Design. CEO Michael Jacobs says in the announcement, “The addition of a stationery and gift imprint is […]
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Publisher of the Red Wheel/Weiser imprints since November 2000 Jan Johnson is stepping aside from day-to-day management responsibilities to become publisher emerita. Johnson says, “I’ve worked in book publishing since 1972, which kind of seems like the dark ages now. There have been so many exciting and unforeseeable changes over the past four decades. I’m looking forward to discovering new ways of doing things and finding new projects to pursue.” President Michael Kerber “will be taking a more direct role in the publishing program, along with Caroline Pincus and Greg Brandenburgh, associate publishers, who will continue and expand their roles […]
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Douglas Preston’s Authors United is taking their complaints over Amazon’s negotiation tactics with Hachette to the etailer’s board of directors, which accomplishes the primary goal of putting authors’ objections back in the headlines. The new letter notes: “Russell Grandinetti of Amazon has stated that the company was ‘forced to take this step because Hachette refused to come to the table.’ He has also claimed that ‘authors are the only leverage we have.’ …Amazon was not ‘forced’ to do anything. This is an obvious fact. We all have choices. Amazon chose to involve 2,500 Hachette authors and their books. It could […]
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Simon & Schuster Australia managing director Lou Johnson has resigned from the company in order to “seek challenges in her career outside of Simon & Schuster, and potentially beyond the traditional publishing environment,” the company said in the announcement, though she will stay “for the foreseeable future” to ensure a smooth transition as a search for her successor begins. Johnson joined S&S Australia in 2008 and has been managing director for the past four years, during which time responsibility for Australia shifted from the US to Simon & Schuster UK. CEO of S&S UK and International Ian Chapman said: “Lou and her […]
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Andrews McMeel Universal has hired Andy Sareyan as president and CEO, effective November 3, reporting to chairman John McMeel and vice chairman Hugh Andrews. After relocating to Kansas City, Sareyan will oversee all AMU operations, comprising Universal Uclick, Andrews McMeel Publishing, and AMUSE. Sareyn was most recently president of National Journal Group and executive vice president at Atlantic Media. Prior to that he was president and chief brand officer at Meredith Corporation, after 18 years to Time Inc. in positions including president of Entertainment Weekly and founding publisher of Real Simple. McMeel says in the announcement, “His exceptional experience and understanding of the worlds […]