Cambridge University Press has a long-term logistics management agreement with Ingram Publisher Services to manage all warehousing and physical fulfillment of their U.S. inventory, effective June 1. Cambridge will continue to handle order processing and customer service. They already use Lightning Source for POD manufacturing. Cambridge coo Peter Phillips calls it “a key step in our own evolution as more and more of the content we provide moves from a physical to a digital format.” Pegasus Books will expand its publishing program to the UK, Australia, and New Zealand with the launch of their spring/summer 2012 list. Titles will be available […]
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People: Schoenfelder Exits Mulholland to Oversee Development for Scott Rudin
Mulholland Books editor John Schoenfelder will be leaving Little, Brown to work for film producer Scott Rudin, where he will oversee the development department. His start date is May 1. In a brief telephone interview Schoenfelder told us he will continue to work with many of his authors on a freelance basis, though Mulholland is searching for a replacement. “It’s an exciting opportunity,” Schoenfelder said, “to work with one of the most tremendous shepherds of storytelling in our era.” Schoenfelder joined the crime & suspense imprint in December 2009 from Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s Press, where he was an assistant editor. […]
Klimo to Leave Random House Children’s; New Leaders for Writers House; Rinaldi Joins Harper To Lead New Health and Wellness Line
Publisher of the Golden Books Young Readers Group Kate Klimo is stepping down as of March 31, Random House Children’s president and publisher Chip Gibson announced internally on Friday. Klimo has worked at Random House since 1984, and spearheaded the acquisition of Golden in 2001. She will be director of creative development at Media Assets Management Associates, where she “will continue turning our books into great TV shows.” (Klimo helped develop The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! into a PBS Kids show and “has six other shows based on our books in development.”) Gibson notes, “she […]
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Publishing veteran Marie Coolman joins Bloomsbury as senior director of publicity and communications on March 19, reporting to Cristina Gilbert. Coolman comes to Bloomsbury from Hyperion, where she has overseen publicity and communications since November 2008. Sarah Freese at WordServe Literary has been promoted to associate agent. Lucy Abrahams has been appointed as literary scout for Metaichmio in Greece and Natur & Kultur in Sweden. BEA has announced its full slate of author breakfast appearances. Tuesday’s author breakfast, hosted by Stephen Colbert will feature Junot Diaz, Barbara Kingsolver and Jo Nesbo; John Green, Lois Lowry and Kadir Nelson will speak at […]
Sterling Gets Smaller As Leaver Heads to Quarto
The compression of Sterling Publishing that we indicated was likely when reporting that Barnes & Noble had been unable to find a buyer for the division has begun. Sterling president Marcus Leaver is leaving to return to England and join Quarto in the new position of chief operating officer, in line to succeed chief executive Lawrence Orbach when he retires, starting in April. Quarto had indicated in late February “the candidate has been identified, and will be announced shortly.” Leaver says in the announcement, “This is a fascinating time in publishing with abundant opportunity and Quarto’s global perspective is unique. […]
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At Goldberg McDuffie Communications, Kathleen Zrelak has been promoted to vp, director of publicity. Author of PLEASE LOOK AFTER MOM Kyung-Sook Shin has won the Man Asian Literary Prize, receiving $30,000. Translator Chi-Young Kim also received US$5,000. The Bancroft Prize for history is being shared this year by Anne Hyde’s Empires, Nations and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860; Daniel Rodgers’ Age of Fracture; and Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement. As part of the relocation of Bonnier’s Weldon Owen from Australia to London, Martina Challis has been […]