Chairman and ceo of Perseus, Frank H. Pearl, died early Friday at age 68. He had been recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of lung cancer. Pearl founded the Perseus Books Group in 1997 after investing in Counterpoint Press and Public Affairs and served as its chairman of the board. A longtime colleague of Pearl’s who has served on the publishing company’s board John Schwieters will fill his position as chairman of the board of Perseus Books. Perseus Books ceo David Steinberger wrote to employees today, saying: “Frank founded The Perseus Books Group with a vision for a different kind […]
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Liz Egan has joined Amazon Publishing’s New York imprint as senior editor, focusing on fiction, memoir, and parenting. Previously she was the books editor at Self magazine for seven years. Tattered Cover manager of operations Neil Strandberg is joining the ABA’s staff in the new position of director of member technology. Relocating to New York, he starts on May 7. Eric Brandt has joined Yale University Press as senior editor, Humanities. He was most recently senior editor at Harper One. At Random House Children’s, Dominique Cimina was named director of publicity and corporate communications; Casey Lloyd and Elizabeth Zajac have both moved up to […]
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At William Morrow, Peter Hubbard has been promoted to executive editor. Edward Benitez has joined Random House, Inc. as director, Spanish-language sales. Michele Karlsberg has joined Bywater Books as publisher. A recent winner of the Publishing Triangle’s Leadership Award, she was one of the founders of Amethyst Press and then ran Michele Karlsberg Marketing and Management. Jane Rogers‘ THE TESTAMENT OF JESSIE LAMB won the Arthur C Clarke award, the UK’s top science fiction prize. First published by independent Scottish press Sandstone, Harper Perennial is set to release a trade paperback (and ebook) in the US on May 15.
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At Macmillan, Dan Schwartz has been promoted to vp, digital product services, adding a variety of responsibilities to his current role managing the strategic and day-to-day operations of the trade ebook group, among them college ebook production and helping to set corporate digital strategy. The company says their ebook group now comprises a more than $100 million business. Workman Publishing has formally unveiled the Workman Speakers Bureau, which former Random House executive Carol Schneider has been building since last May. (Schneider ran the Random House portion of the Random House Speakers Bureau among her responsibilities there.) Workman has enrolled 17 of the house’s authors […]
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Chantal Restivo- Alessi has joined HarperCollins as chief digital officer, reporting to Brian Murray, and filling the position vacated by Charlie Redmayne when he joined Pottermore. She will also sit on the company’s executive committee. In her new role, Restivo-Alessi, most recently head of media corporate finance at ING Bank in London, will be responsible for leading the overall global digital strategy for the company, manage the commercial relationships with existing and new digital partners, and grow the digital revenues worldwide, working closely with all the divisions of the company worldwide. Leslie Hulse, svp digital business development, will report to […]
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Amber Guetebier has been promoted to editor at Red Wheel Weiser Books and Conari Press. She was formerly assistant editor. Chad Harbach won the Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction Award for The Art of Fielding; Tea Obreht won the Quality Paperback Club’s New Voices Award for her debut novel The Tiger’s Wife, and Conor Grennan received the QBPC’s nonfiction New Visions award for Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal. Author Toni Morrison is among the 13 new recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom–along with former University of Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt, whose latest memoir was just announced. […]