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Caroline Sun will join Penguin Children’s as a senior publicist, on March 15. She was most recently a senior publicist at Macmillan Children’s. At Touchstone Fireside, Shida Carr has been promoted to publicity manager after ten years of rising through the ranks. Stacy Lasner has been promoted to publicist. Sherri Vanderveen has joined Toronto’s Helen Heller Agency, specializing in literary fiction. Improbable as it may seem, Hachette Book Group says that parent company Lagardere made an error in their posted investor presentation yesterday. While Stephenie Meyer’s “official guide” to the Twilight books is on the way, the announcement of a […]

Among the many things Barnes & Noble and investor Ron Burkle have been fighting over is the company’s assessment of how many shares are controlled by the Riggio family and company directors, management and other executive officers.” On February 17 the company told Burkle that insiders controlled “approximately 31 percent” of shares. But in their quarterly SEC 10-Q filed today, they say Len and Steve Riggio alone are “beneficial owners of an aggregate of approximately 32.4% of the company’s outstanding capital stock as of January 31.” (Online data indicates that other company officials and directors hold approximately 1.5 percent of […]

Harper is creating a new New York-based unit, HarperCollins Digital, which will “work ever more closely with our operating divisions to create content, marketing reach, products, communities, and consumer knowledge that has direct and measurable benefits for our authors and the sales of their work.” The Digital group, under chief digital officer Charlie Redmayne, will feature three teams, focused on author services, consumer products, and business development. Carolyn Pittis will become svp, HarperCollins Digital, global author services, “focused on establishing and building an industry-leading author services proposition, for all divisions of our company.” Redmayne writes in a memo the company […]

Carolyn Reidy at Simon & Schuster shares the first of the traditional year-end letters to employees, celebrating the company’s resolve in performing well during a difficult year, even as “we have every reason to expect that this coming year will bring its own set of difficulties for us to face.” On the positive side, “our future is limited only by the resolve we bring to the task, the imagination we apply to the art, and the skill that we bring to the science of publishing.” More practically, she notes “anticipating that the bookselling climate might not recover at any point […]

Having turned the Crown Publisher Group into a sprawling empire of lines, Random House ceo Markus Dohle announced today that “we believe that both our overall publishing interests and those of our respective imprints, authors, and our colleagues, will now be best served by splitting off the current Crown Publishing Group into separately structured and distinct groups: one comprised of the Crown trade-publishing imprints; the other with the Random House Audio Group and the Random House Information Group.” Current president and Publisher of the Crown Publishing Group Jenny Frost is “stepping down effective immediately…bringing to a close a distinctive quarter-century […]