At the Jeff Herman Agency, Tom Willkens has been promoted to literary agent. At the Free Press, Andrew Dodds has been promoted to publicist. Book Soup is holding a “celebration of the life of Glenn Goldman” this Friday evening. In other store news, Toronto’s Pages bookstore has had their lease renewed after fearing that they would need to close or move at the end of February. And a SF Chronicle article reminds readers that even with recently closures, independent bookstores comprise a significant and vital part of the market in the Bay Area, highlighting smaller neighborhood stores like Booksmith and […]
Personnel
Crown Announces Staff Adjustments as Palgon Rises
In a separate memo from Crown Group president and publisher Jenny Frost, she promises that “the new imprints joining our group each have their own distinct publishing identities and will continue to function with their own editorial, marketing, and publicity staffs.” Michael Palgon takes the new position of evp, deputy publisher of the Crown Publishing Group, reporting to Frost, overseeing what was Doubleday Business and is now called Broadway Business, still run by executive editor Roger Scholl, along with retaining oversight of Doubleday Religion and Waterbrook Multnomah. (Doubleday Religion editor-in-chief and associate publisher Trace Murphy and Waterbrook Multnomah president and […]
Knopf Group Completes Reorg; Announces New Titles and Reports
In two memos this morning, Knopf’s leaders outline a series of management realignments for the expanded Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Group spokesperson Paul Bogaards tells us “we are not making public the specifics of personnel issues, other than to say that there have been staff reductions as a result of our recent realignment, and that integration of our publishing group, which began late last year, is now complete.” Despite those reductions, Bogaards says that the planned annual “title count will remain the same at all of the imprints within our group.” On the editorial side of Doubleday, svp, publisher and […]
Anderson to Run S&S Children's
Running Press president and publisher Jon Anderson will join Simon & Schuster as evp and publisher of their children’s division on January 21. S&S CEO Carlyn Reidy says, “He is a truly original thinker who brings great creativity, financial and business acumen, and managerial skill to all his publishing endeavors, and he is the right person to build upon our rich legacy in children’s publishing. He is knowledgeable and experienced in every type of publishing in our Children’s Division, and we look forward to his leadership for this vital and important part of our overall business.” Earlier in Anderson’s career, […]
Nicolas Cheetham to Run New Atlantic Books Imprint; Quercus Cuts Salaries; Layoffs at Waterstone's
Editorial Director at Quercus Nicolas Cheetham will move to Atlantic Books in early February where he will be publishing director of Corvus, a new genre fiction imprint. Publishing approximately 15 titles a year and launching in fall 2009, Cheetham will focus on crime, thrillers and speculative fiction, building a list of around 15 books per year. B2B Cheetham’s position will not be filled at Quercus, and another unnamed employee has left the company. Quercus staff has “voluntarily taken a pay cut to avoid the need” for layoffs, the Bookseller reports. In other cutbacks in the UK, bookseller Waterstone’s is eliminating […]
BN.com Gets a President, and More People News
BarnesandNoble.com, which has been operating without a chief executive since Marie Toulantis left the position of ceo in August, is getting a new leader. Still with the lesser title of president, William J. Lynch, Jr. will take over on February 2. He was evp of marketing and general manager of HSN.com, and from 2004 to 2008, he was ceo and co-founder of gifts.com. Barnes & Noble ceo Steve Riggio says, “He has experience in product development, brand marketing, relationship marketing and direct marketing; he has managed both a technology start-up company and run large e-commerce organizations.” Sales fell 11 percent […]