OverDrive has hired Brian Gurewitz as director of content sales. He was formerly president of library sales for Random House’s Books on Tape. Katie O’Callaghan is joining the Harper as associate director, marketing, working across all of the Harper imprints including Harper, Harper Business, and Broadside Books. She was most recently senior marketing manager at Ballantine Bantam Dell. The Los Angeles Times book review will no longer employ freelance book reviewers or non-staff columnists. LAT spokesperson Nancy Sullivan tells PW, “This was a cost-saving move, strictly related to our budget.” She said “staff writers from outside the book department will take […]
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Author and former agent and editor Jason Pinter will be senior marketing manager for Grove/Atlantic and their publisher’s Mysterious Press imprint, which they are relaunching this fall. Publishing Technology has hired Jon White as business development director for their expansion in Australia and New Zealand. Before becoming a consultant White was digital publishing director at Macmillan Education and digital licensing manager at Penguin.
Kania to Leave Harper, and Paperback Units Are Reintegrated
Senior vice president and publisher of It Books, Harper Perennial, and Harper paperbacks Carrie Kania (who also oversees the Harper Design imprint) will leave HarperCollins at the end of August. She is moving to London, where she will join Conville & Walsh as an agent. Kania joined Harper in 1999. In the wake of her departure, the paperback lines Harper Perennial and Harper paperbacks will be “realigned” within the Harper and William Morrow divisions. Harper division svp/publisher Jonathan Burnham will take over responsibility for Perennial, with Cal Morgan reporting to Burnham, as will Amy Baker and Erica Barmash. Publicists Anne […]
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Scholastic’s international division has hired Anne Boynton-Trigg as vp, export, and the former holder of that position Edie Perkins takes the new job of vp, international product development, working “across corporate divisions and international groups to strengthen and grow the Scholastic brand globally.” Boynton-Trigg was most recently svp, general manager, with Pearson Longman English Language Teaching. Both report to president of Scholastic International Growth Markets Shane Armstrong. The Guardian released their new Media Guardian 100 list, with only modest representation from book publishing. Penguin ceo John Makinson remains on the list, now at No. 88 (down from 76 last year), […]
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Hodder & Stoughton is expanding the editorial staff at their Sceptre imprint. Drummond Moir has been hired as editorial director, commissioning both fiction and non-fiction. He’s been at Heinemann for the past three years. Suzie Dooré will extending her role as editorial director at Hodder to acquire fiction for the imprint. (She already edits Chris Cleave, one of Sceptres’ bestselling authors.) Both report to Carole Welch. Writers House has learned that a series of fake emails claiming to be from WH agent Jodi Reamer have been circulating to self-published authors this week. “These emails, which contain a number of false […]
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Maggie Richards has been promoted to deputy publisher at Henry Holt, in addition to her current responsibilities as vp sales and marketing. Simon & Schuster UK senior commissioning editor Francesca Main will move to Picador on September 26 as editorial director, acquiring and publishing commercial literary fiction. RPG game designer Jonathan Tweet [stet] was hired in June by Amazon and is said to be developing a “social game”–indicated on his LinkedIn page, which indicates he is “doing social games with a crack team,” and confirmed by Tweet to IndustryGamers. Amazon purchased a downloadable gaming company Reflexive Entertainment in 2008, but […]