Kristin Ellison is joining INScribe Digital as director of business development reporting to Larry Norton. She was editorial director of WOWIO. Nadine Vassallo has joined the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) as project coordinator, working in support of BISG’s research, event and standards development portfolios. She has worked at the Penguin Speakers Bureau, Phaidon Press, and Borders. At Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Josh Dykstra has been promoted to inside sales representative, responsible for managing independent trade bookstore, art gallery and museum, and special market accounts. Edmison/Harper has been appointed the North American literary scout for Editora Planeta Brasil. Politics […]
Personnel
People: Johnson to Retire from Knopf
Knopf and Pantheon publishing director Pat Johnson has decided to “take early retirement, and pursue some long-held dreams,” Knopf president Tony Chirico writes in a staff memo. He notes: “Often Pat will describe her job to colleagues in this way: ‘I do the work Sonny and Tony like to avoid.’ And to be honest, she’s right. Because there are some things we do tend to avoid, even though they are essential to keeping a company running smoothly. So you could say that Pat has kept our company running smoothly for the last sixteen years…. It is a job she has […]
People, Etc.
Among the continuing changes at Sterling Lord Literistic, agent Ira Silverberg is leaving the agency in mid- to late-November and will join the National Endowment for the Arts as literature director, starting December 5. Silverberg wrote to colleagues in an e-mail: “After 26 years in book publishing, it was time for a change. This particular change will keep me very close to the field I grew up in. I’m honored to do this kind of government service and am thrilled that I’ll be able to help the community of independent publishers, literary journals, writing centers and writers who are supported […]
People, Etc.
Consultant and former Bowker ceo Michael Cairns has taken a full-time position at SharedBook after working with them to launch their AcademicPub product. Cairns is chief revenue officer for the company, and will continue to focus on the development of AcademicPub–an online platform that lets educators create fully-licensed custom coursepacks, pulling together licensable publisher content, personal materials from their own computers and information from the web through an online interface. Angus Killick is joining Macmillan Children’s in the new position of vp, associate publisher, reporting to president Jon Yaged. Killick will coordinate publishing programs across the group’s imprints, lead the children’s […]
People, Distribution, Etc.
Ingram Publisher Services is providing distribution for four new clients: business publisher The Planning Shop; home design and decorating/lifestyle specialist Moll Anderson Productions‘ forthcoming The Seductive Home series; Canada’s Dundurn Press; and Arundel Publishing, which specializes in YA, nonfiction, mysteries and thrillers. In personnel news, Joseph Calamia joins Yale University Press as an editor, reporting to the executive editor for science and medicine, Jean Thomson Black. Calamia recently earned a master’s degree in science writing from MIT and will acquire for the science list.
People: B&N CFO Lombardi Steps Down
Barnes & Noble’s chief financial officer Joseph Lombardi has resigned his position, and corporate controller Allen Lindstrom will act as interim CFO while the company conducts an executive search. Lombardi will stay on as a non-officer employee until the middle of next year “to assist in the transition.” CEO William Lynch says in the announcement, “We’ve built great bench strength and continuity in our finance department over the years, and everyone from the management team to the board of directors has the utmost confidence in Allen as he assumes the interim CFO position. We thank Joe for his service to […]