Former publisher at Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Rebecca Saletan will join Riverhead in March. Saletan says, “I have long admired this publisher, and in a very challenging time in the industry I am so thrilled to be at a house that is a paragon of stability and foresight.” She will acquire “a broad range of narrative nonfiction, in such areas as science, travel, natural history, current affairs, the environment and food, as well as literary fiction,” according to the release. Publisher Geoff Kloske says “I’m very pleased to welcome an editor of Becky’s exceptional talent and breadth of experience to Riverhead’s […]
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Nelson Leaves PW in RBI Layoffs; Criticas to Stop Printing
Following the suspension of efforts to sell the company last December, Reed Business Information executed layoffs throughout the US division of company yesterday said to comprise 7 percent of employees. The company also is said to have imposed a salary and hiring freeze for 2009. (A separate UK report says that 35 employees were eliminated from that part of the company.) PW’s high-profile editor-in-chief Sara Nelson was among the people laid off. Other reported layoffs at PW include longtime executive editor Daisy Maryles, bookselling editor Kevin Howell, and director of business development Rachel Dicker. From within the same publishing group, […]
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Headline publishing director Harriet Evans is leaving her job to focus full-time on writing, with her fourth novel due for publication this fall. Correcting yesterday’s report, Victoria Stapleton‘s promotion at Little, Brown Children’s is to associate director, school and library marketing.
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Psychologist and author Dr. Stanley Fisher, husband of Newmarket Press president and publisher Esther Margolis, died on Tuesday of lung cancer, after a short illness. He was 81. His book DISCOVERING THE POWER OF SELF-HYPNOSIS was first published by HarperCollins in 1991, and in a revised and updated second edition by Newmarket Press in 2000. At Little, Brown Children’s, Andrew Smith has been promoted to deputy publisher. Victoria Stapleton moves up to manager, school and library marketing and Lisa Sabater is now publicity manager.
Next at Random House: The Sales Groups
SVP and director of Random House adult sales Jacqueline Updike announced this morning a revised sales management structure. Online and digital sales director Amanda Close takes over as group sales director for the Crown Group; former Doubleday Group sales director Janet Cooke becomes group sales director for the Knopf Group; and sales marketing director for the former Bantam Dell Group Cynthia Lasky will serve as group sales director for the Random House Group. Updike says “the chief responsibility of these executives is to develop and implement plans that achieve their group’s overall sales targets. Each will be charged with building […]
More Announcements: Perseus Goes Mobile, Awards, Personnel
Perseus Books Group has partnered with mobile technology company Incelligence to launch a handful of book-based reference products for mobile phones: The Wine Enthusiast Pocket Guide to Spirits; Quit: Read This Book And Stop Smoking; and Your Pregnancy Week by Week, in both English and Spanish versions. Incelligence’s distribution network includes such major carriers such as AT&T, Orange, SouthernLINC, T-Mobile, and Kajeet. They have a library of over 100 mobile apps. In awards, the Jerusalem Book Fair prize will be given to Haruki Murakami. French playwright Timothee de Fombelle’s TOBY ALONE won the UK’s Marsh award for children’s literature in […]