Ingram ceo and president Skip Prichard will leave the company on June 8 after more than five years, in a abrupt announcement somehow trying to hide itself on the Friday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend. Current chairman John Ingram will assume the duties of ceo when Prichard departs. In a statement John Ingram said that Prichard “rebranded and refocused our efforts within Ingram Content, and through a well designed strategy, hard work and energetic leadership repositioned our companies to succeed in the fast changing publishing environment.” Prichard indicates, “I now will do some consulting and then look for a new […]
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Maris Kreizman will join Barnes & Noble as director of editorial content for BN.com on June 4. She was most recently audiobooks editor at eMusic. At S&S Children’s, Bridget Madsen has been promoted to managing editor and Ellen Grafton moves up to assistant managing editor. In addition, Jenica Nasworthy moves up to senior production editor, and Craig Adams has been promoted to production editor. Author, publishing consultant, music producer, and co-founder of the Rock Bottom Remainders Kathi Kamen Goldmark, 63, died Thursday morning of cancer. She founded Goldmark Media Escorts in 1983, which handed more than 500 authors touring the […]
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Sterling Publishing continues to empty out, as editorial director of Sterling Children’s Splinter imprint Cindy Loh moves to serve as publishing director of Bloomsbury Children’s (including the Walker Books line) starting June 4. Emily Easton, promoted to publishing director of Walker Children’s, and Michelle Nagler, editorial director of Bloomsbury Children’s, will report to Loh, as will creative director Donna Mark and senior managing editor Melissa Kavonic. At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Alyson Heller has been promoted to associate editor. Literary critic and cultural historian Paul Fussell, 88, died Wednesday in Medford, OR of natural causes in a long-term care facility, where he’d spent […]
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At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Angela Zurlo has been promoted to production manager for the Books for Young Readers and Paul Wiseman imprints, effective June 1. Navah Wolfe and Julia Maguire have been promoted to associate editor, BFYR. In addition, Richard Ackoon moves up to executive coordinator, Laura Roode has been promoted to associate art director, and Krista Olsen moves up to design associate. Knopf announced that in six weeks, they have sold over 10 million units (in all editions) of EL James’s three FIFTY SHADES books. They have printed 9.5 million books so far, available in 15,000 physical retail […]
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Jessica Zimmerman has joined S&S’s adult trade imprint as senior publicist. She was most recently a publicist at Center Street. Danny Yanez has joined Franklin & Siegal Associates as literary scout. He was previously at Vintage/Anchor. Jimmy Fallon has been added to the lineup for the BEA Author Breakfast on Thursday morning (June 7), making a “special ‘guest appearance,'” to promote his THANK YOU NOTES 2, which publishes today. Canongate rights director Polly Collingridge will leave to the company to relocate to San Francisco (as her husband Peter Collingridge joins Safari Books Online). She has been with Canongate for 11 years. […]
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Cambridge University Press chief operating officer since 2010 Peter Phillips moves up to chief executive of the publisher, taking over from Stephen Bourne as he gives up the top position as planned though continues to work with the Press. Phillips had previously been on the board of UK communications and media regulator Board of Ofcom, and served as coo for BBC News and director of business development for the BBC in the past. For Neil Young‘s high-profile interview at BEA on Wednesday, June 6, it has been announced that author and musician Patti Smith will be the one asking the questions. (Seating at the lunchtime […]