At Disney Consumer Products, Andrew Sugerman has been promoted to evp of Disney Publishing, taking over running the division from Russell Hampton (who held the title of president). Sugerman joined the company in 2007 and built their Disney English learning business (with over 30 language learning centers in China) and he oversees all global English language learning efforts for Disney Publishing. Curtis Brown UK has promoted Jonathan Lloyd to chairman “following a strategic review and consultation period,” with Jonny Geller and Ben Hall acting as joint ceos “to spearhead the management of the company.” The partnership has also instituted “a new […]
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Publisher and longtime managing director at AP Watt Hilary Rubinstein, 86, died on May 22. He began his publishing career at Gollancz before moving over to AP Watt in 1965, rising to MD over a 27-year career at the agency. He continued to represent a select number of clients after his 1992 retirement and was also the founder and editor of the Good Hotel Guide, which produced editions between 1978 and 2000. Melanie Little is stepping down as senior editor, Canadian fiction at House of Anansi Press to focus on her writing. She will continue to edit a select number […]
Ingram CEO Prichard Leaving Company
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 […]