• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register

Publishers Lunch

The Publishing Industry's Daily Essential Read

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

Personnel

Personnel: New CFO for B&T

August 5, 2008
By Michael Cader

Following the announced departure of James Melton, Baker & Taylor has hired Jeff Leonard as their new cfo and evp, starting later this month. Most recently he was vp, finance and treasurer at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, prior to which he spent seven years at Hughes Supply.Release

Login to read full story

Alexander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89

August 3, 2008
By Michael Cader

His son Stepan Solzhenitsyn told the AP that the Nobel-winning author died late Sunday, “but declined further comment.”AP

Login to read full story

Pease's Eye for Talent

August 3, 2008
By Michael Cader

The Boston Globe focuses on editor Roland Pease’s consistently sharp judgment in discovering great fiction writers. He edited the US version of Rawi Hage’s DENIRO’S GAME, before Hage won this year’s IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. For 15 years at his own company Zoland Books, and now as an editor for Steerforth Press (which bought Zoland), Pease was the first publisher of Ha Jin; Peter Behrens’ Governor General’s Award-winner THE LAW OF DREAMS; AND MORE. “Four of his past five titles, including Castle Freeman’s Go With Me, were named to Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers series, said Chip Fleischer, […]

Login to read full story

Dickerman Leaves Bloomsbury; Gibson Moves Up; Krauss to Rodale, Too

August 1, 2008
By Michael Cader

Just promoted to publisher of the Bloomsbury after the departure of Karen Rinaldi for Rodale  as general manager and publisher of the books division, Colin Dickerman is now leaving the house to join Rinaldi again and serve as vp, publishing director at Rodale Books, overseeing the narrative non-fiction list, starting September 2. Dickerman was at Bloomsbury for 8 years. Walker & Company publisher George Gibson will take the position of publishing director for all of Bloomsbury USA. President Richard Charkin comments, “George has the experience and publishing skill to build further our author roster and our market position in the […]

Login to read full story

Personnel News and More

July 31, 2008
By Michael Cader

Sarah Melnyk has joined St. Martin‘s Minotau as a senior publicist.  She was previously at Harcourt. At Yale University Press, Jean Thomson Black has been promoted to executive editor.  She works in the areas of science, medicine, and technology. Distributor Consortium will offer free freight terms to trade accounts beginning August 1. With this change, accounts will receive the same discount terms when ordering from Perseus Books, Perseus Distribution Services (PDS), Publishers Group West (PGW), or Consortium.

Login to read full story

Personnel News

July 31, 2008
By Michael Cader

Overlook Press has hired David Falk as director of sales & marketing, reporting directly to publisher Peter Mayer and also “assisting him in numerous sales and publishing related activities.” Most recently he was director of national accounts at Houghton Mifflin, and prior to that he was a buyer at Baker & Taylor and a store manager at Barnes & Noble. Daisy Hutton will join Thomas Nelson as vp of international licensing in September. She has been rights director at Harvard Business Press. Publisher of management research books and journals Emerald Group opened a US subsidiary based in Cambridge, MA in […]

Login to read full story

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Go to page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 556
  • Go to page 557
  • Go to page 558
  • Go to page 559
  • Go to page 560
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 562
  • Go to Next Page »

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login


Forgot password
Quick Pass users click here to log in
Get Full Access
The publishing industry's essential daily read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • Oddsmakers Favor Chinese Author Xue or Haruki Murakami for Literature Nobel October 4, 2023 Guardian
  • New Contributing Writers to The Washington Post's Book World October 3, 2023 Washington Post
  • How Lester Del Rey "Invented Fantasy Fiction As We Know It" October 2, 2023 Dan Sinykin Excerpt, Slate
  • John Grisham's "Enduring Charm" October 2, 2023 Time
  • Michael Lewis Writes Sam Bankman-Fried "Was Told" Trump Wouid Drop Out of Presidential Race for $5 Billion October 2, 2023 Washington Post
  • If or When Amazon Wants to Identify Books Made By AI, Software Detection Companies Say They Are Ready September 29, 2023 Wired
  • Cundhill History Prize Shortlist Announced September 28, 2023 Prize site
  • Nobel for Literature to be Announced October 5 September 28, 2023 NYT
  • With Sales Down 30% on Book Bans, Levine Querido Authors Raise Over $100,000 In Auction September 27, 2023 PW
  • Taylor & Francis to Make Voluntary Separation Offer; Threatens Layoffs to Follow September 25, 2023 Bookseller
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.