Due to “the changing nature of the market place,” Simon & Schuster is reducing and reorganizing its staff of field sales reps, eliminating nine salespeople and leaving a new structure of just seven field reps: John Muse (MA, CT, RI and parts of NY); Tim Hepp (parts of PA, NJ, VA, MD and Washington, DC); Leah Hays (IL, OH, WI, MN); Michael Smith (Hastings, other select retailers); Amy Schoppert (WA, OR, CO); Kelly Stidham (CA, AZ); Laura Webb (LA, SF, UT). They will work under director, field sales, Michael Croy. Sales and marketing evp Michael Selleck says the “new field […]
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Lubeck Takes Over at BISG, and More People News
Book technology veteran Scott Lubeck has taken over as executive director of the Book Industry Study Group. Most recently vp of technology for Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional and Education, Lubeck has worked at Harvard Business School Publishing, Newsstand, Perseus Books Group and National Academy Press. Kate Rados is joining Chelsea Green in the new position of director of digital initiatives, shaping overall digital strategy from web/mobile development, to digital publishing, to digital marketing and social media. She was most recently director, digital markets for Sterling. At Grand Central, Evan Boorstyn was promoted to deputy publicity director; and Tracy Martin and […]
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Steve Rosato has been promoted to event director of BEA after serving in various roles for the show since 1998, most recently as director of industry development & strategic accounts. Editorial director of digital publishing for Morrow/Avon/Eos Margot Schupf will move to Sterling as vp, publisher Sterling Innovation starting January 25. Frances Gilbert has been promoted to vp, publisher of Sterling Children’s, which includes the imprints Sterling Children’s Books, Sandy Creek Press, Begin Smart and Flash Kids. And Harold Lee joins the company this week as vp, finance. At Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, agent Stacey Glick has been named […]
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Dan Angus started today as Borders new vp, customer loyalty, reporting to svp of marketing Bill Dandy. Angus is in charge of loyalty marketing programs and initiatives, “including directing the development of customer relationship marketing strategies as well as enhancing and growing the Borders Rewards loyalty program. Most recently, he was vp, customer relationship marketing for Guitar Center. Elsewhere in Borders, the company will eliminate approximately 100 jobs from their LaVergne, TN distribution center in March, when the plan to relocate their returns center to Pennsylvania.Local news station Retiring managing director of Penguin UK Helen Fraser was among those on […]
Remembering Joyce Engelson, Paul Nathan and Mark Gates
Richard Marek reports to us that longtime book editor Joyce Engelson died on Christmas of pneumonia. In her long career she was editor-in-chief at Abelard Schuman, executive editor of The Dial Press, editor-in-chief of Richard Marek Publishers at St. Martin’s and Putnam, editor-in-chief of Dutton, and editor at large for Crown. Among the hundreds of authors she edited were Richard Condon, Samuel Shem, Norman Cousins, Heywood Hale Broun, Irving Howe, Gael Green and Ishmael Reed. Marek writes: “Known for her fierce honesty with authors – young editors at Richard Marek Publishers used to stand by her office door when she […]
People: Gray to Leave Ingram
Ingram Content Group’s chief strategy officer James Gray will leave the company at the end of the year. He has been at Ingram since 2006, when they purchsed his company Coutts Information Services and MyiLibrary (which provide print and ebook distribution services to academic libraries the world over). Gray had been ceo of Ingram Digital up until that unit was integrated as a component of the merged Ingram Content Group in June. His position expires with his departure and will not be filled. Spokesman Keel Hunt notes it was “a position that was established for James.”