While Amazon did not respond directly to our request for information for Kindle sales information for THE FOUR-HOUR CHEF, company publishing vp Jeff Belle claims in a letter (posted in full by PaidContent) that their total sale is over 60,000 units so far (or roughly 30,000 of those $4.99 ebooks in addition to the print sales we reported on Wednesday morning; the December 9 NYT bestseller lists show FOUR-HOUR CHEF at No. 4 on the advice, how-to and misc. list). Belle says the Ferriss book was the bestselling nonfiction title for the week, though their own list for all of […]
Personnel
People and Remembrances
At Berrett-Koehler, Zoe Mackey has been promoted to online marketing and international sales manager. Samantha Dighton has joined D4EO Literary Agency as an agent, based in Washington, D.C. She worked The Sagalyn Agency. Christina (Kit) Ward, 59, founder of the Christina Ward Literary Agency, most recently co-owner of The Ward and Balkin Agency, and formerly an acquiring editor at Little, Brown in Boston, passed away November 19 after a brief illness. Her colleague writes: “Kit was a brilliant editor and champion for her authors whose work ranged from bestselling literary fiction to gardening books and nature writing, to poetry. She was a […]
People, Etc.
Anna deVries joined Picador as senior editor earlier in November, acquiring both nonfiction and fiction hardcovers and trade paperback originals, while also assisting in the publishing of paperback reprints. Most recently, she had worked at Scribner for seven years. At Kobo, Pieter Swinkels has been promoted to vp, acquisition and “will be leading Kobo’s global publisher outreach and content acquisition team” from their Toronto headquarters. Julia Pastore has joined Demos Health as executive editor where she will help grow their list of trade health and self-help titles. She was a senior editor at Crown Archetype and Harmony Books.
Remembrances: Davis, Rosenblatt, Geiser and O’Connor
Chief financial officer of Random House Anne Davis, 50, passed away Monday after a battle with cancer. CEO Markus Dohle writes: “Anne was more than a brilliant CFO. She was our anchor, our heart, our inspiration. She not only made our company much more successful, she made it a better place to work, and for those of us who knew her personally, she made us better people.” She joined the company in 1995 as assistant controller. Hachette Book Group senior national accounts manager working with B&N Judy Rosenblatt passed away last weekend from ovarian cancer. A longtime member of the […]
People, Etc.
Ellen Holgate will move to Bloomsbury UK Children’s as editorial director for fiction in mid-January. She is currently senior editor at Hodder Children’s. Once again, the Obama family celebrated “small business Saturday” with a bookstore shopping trip. This time they visited One More Page Books in Arlington, VA, where the White House says President Obama bought 15 children’s books to give as gifts. (The president indicated he had prepared a shopping list that he consulted on his Blackberry while in the store.) Kensington and Chelsea became the second London borough to approve plans to demolish the Earl’s Court exhibition center […]
People, Etc.
The literary director of Albert Bonniers Forlag in Sweden Jonas Axelsson has elected to step down, effective immediately. Associate publishing director of Bonnier Group’s trade publishing division Jesper Monthan will take over on aa temporary basis while a search is conducted. Axelsson has also resigned from his other responsibilities within the Bonnier Group, including leading the Bonnier Group Agency. Frank Berrios has been promoted to editor for the Random House Children’s and Golden Books licensed publishing group, where Courtney Carbone has moved up to assistant editor. The Costa Awards shortlists were announced across five categories. Booker winner Hilary Mantel is […]