Ballantine Bantam Dell mass market publisher Scott Shannon is changing roles in a clear sign of where the market is headed. He is taking on the new position of svp, publisher, Digital Content for the Random House Publishing Group, though on the print side he will remain as publisher of Del Rey/Spectra. Shannon will report directly to Gina Centrello in his new role, and director of digital marketing strategy and product development Matt Schwartz will now report to Shannon. Publisher of Ballantine Bantam Dell Libby McGuire will take over leadership of the mass-market list, and associate publisher for mass market, […]
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Thomas Bouman has been promoted from associate editor to editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. At Simon & Schuster, Lesley Espenship and Erin Ortner have both been promoted to senior digital operations analyst. Also at the company, Erica White has been promoted to manager of business analysis. At Sourcebooks, Shana Drehs has been promoted to editorial manager for Sourcebooks Landmark; Danielle Jackson has been promoted to publicist for Sourcebooks Casablanca; and Valerie Pierce has joined the company as marketing specialist – retail & libraries. She was previously publishing coordinator for Allen Press. Alison McGeehon has been named associate director of marketing […]
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Philip Patrick has joined Amazon as senior leader, rights and licensing. He was most recently with Crown as publisher of Three Rivers Press and publisher of ebooks and digital content. Severn House, Canongate Books and Granta Publications will now be digitally distributed by Ingram‘s Coresource. The shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has been announced, with the winner to be named in late May: SERIOUS MEN by Manu Joseph (John Murray) COMFORT AND JOY by India Knight (Fig Tree) THE COINCIDENCE ENGINE by Sam Leith (Bloomsbury) THE NEWS WHERE YOU ARE by Catherine O’Flynn (Penguin) SUPER […]
Nelson’s Hyatt Steps Aside from CEO Job, and More People News
Thomas Nelson CEO Mike Hyatt “is stepping out of active management” though he will serve as chairman of the board. Current president and coo Mark Schoenwald is taking over as ceo. Hyatt will advise on company leadership and “represent the company by positively influencing authors, the media, and consumers while more actively pursuing his outside interests such as speaking and writing.” REDGroup Retail chairman Steven Cain has left the company for personal reasons, according to a spokesperson for the retail chain’s administrators. Replacing him is Gary Dunne, who joined in January. Group brand and strategy director Alison Smith has also […]
People: Freese Leaves NBN; Burtenshaw Moves Up at Reed; and More
National Book Network president Rich Freese has left the company. His last day was Friday, April 8. President of NBN parent company Rowman & Littlefield Jed Lyons told us over the weekend that Freese’s departure was “very amicable” and the result of NBN’s announcement back in January that they would reduce their number of distribution clients. “We’ve been talking about it for weeks,” Lyons explained. “Since Rich’s principal role was in working on new business development, it didn’t make sense for him and the company to continue working together.” Lyons said there will be no additional changes to NBN’s executive […]
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Random House is expanding the corporate communications team with the hiring of Claire Von Schilling as svp, corporate communications, reporting to Stuart Applebaum. She has been vp, corporate communications at Sony Music Entertainment since 2006, prior to which she worked at Bertelsmann, Inc.Ashley Hewlett has been promoted to associate publicist at Touchstone. Alyse Diamond has joined OpenSky as a talent business executive. Previously she was an editor at St. Martin’s. At Random House Children’s, Susan Chin has been promoted to associate manager, marketing design and production. Nick Canham has joined HarperCollins UK as editorial director, non-fiction, concentrating on the company’s […]