Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has announced a realignment of the Trade and Reference Group’s sales & marketing division. Laurie Brown, previously SVP of Sales, has been named Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing, reporting to Gary Gentel. SVP, Director of Marketing Bridget Marmion, who has been at HMH for eleven years, will be leaving after company.John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s 2012 presidential campaign book will be published the following year by Penguin Press, which Crain’s reports paid about $5 million (after HarperCollins, which published Game Change earlier this year, dropped out of the bidding earlier this week.)Crain’s New York Former Poet […]
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Langenscheidt Publishing Group President Marc Jennings has resigned from the company, effective immediately. He is replaced by John Muchnicki, who is being tasked with streamlining Langenscheidt’s stateside operation and positioning the company for new growth going forward. Sonya Safro has joined Twelve as an Associate Publicist. Previously she was at Knopf, where she was an Associate Publicist. Harold McGraw, Jr., who began at McGraw-Hill as a sales rep in 1947 and was elected president in 1974 and CEO a year later, died at his home in Darien, Ct. at the age of 92.NYT obit Ai Ogawa, the National Book Award […]
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Barnes & Noble has named Dan Gilbert as Executive Vice President, Operations and Customer Service, responsible for managing the company’s warehousing and fulfillment to its retail and digital operations. Previously he was Vice President of Customer Operations for Cisco Systems. Liz Querio has joined Sourcebooks as a marketing manager. She was most recently was most recently a senior marketing specialist with OfficeMax. Stephanie O’Cain has been promoted to associate marketing manager at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.NBN International will move to a new 80,000 square feet facility in Plymouth, England later this summer, a move made necessary by sales […]
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The Random House Publishing Group has announced a number of promotions: Barbara Fillon has been named Deputy Director, Publicity for Little Random, Spiegel & Grau, and The Dial Press, reporting to Sally Marvin. London King and Jynne Martin have been promoted to Associate Director, while Ashley Gratz-Collier has been named Associate Publicist. Susan Corcoran has been named Deputy Director, Publicity for Ballantine Bantam Dell, reporting to Theresa Zoro. April Flores, Diana Franco, Alison Masciovecchio and Joe Scalora have all been promoted to Publicist. John Brodie has joined Grand Central’s Business Plus imprint as Executive Editor, effective April 5, reporting to […]
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Curtis Riskey has been appointed Executive Director for CBA, effective immediately, after serving in an interim position since November 2009. Previously he was the Association’s strategic solutions executive. ReleaseSimon Juden has left his post as Chief Executive of the Publishers Association for Pearson, where he will be Head of Public Affairs. The Bookseller Chronicle Books announced a slew of promotions across the company. Sarah Billingsley has been named Assistant Editor, Food & Drink, while on the Children’s side, Melissa Manlove has been promoted to Editor, Mary Colgan to Assistant Editor, Eloise Leigh to Designer, and Amy Achaibou to Senior Designer. […]
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Melissa Possick will become associate publisher for Random House Trade Paperbacks on April 5, reporting to Jane von Mehren, as Kim Hovey focuses full-time on her role as associate publisher for Ballantine. Possick, who began her career at Random House, is currently director of marketing at Workman. Katy Hershberger has been promoted to senior publicist at St. Martin’s.