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January 21, 2011By Sarah Weinman

People, Etc.

January 21, 2011By Sarah Weinman

Lynne Missen will join Penguin Canada as publishing director of children’s books on January 31. She has been executive editor at Harper Canada Children’s. Pamela Paul has been named children’s book editor for the New York Times Book Review, starting today. She is a journalist and book critic, the author of three nonfiction books, and is a columnist for the NYT‘s Style section. Her new position with the NYTBR is part-time. Pamela Clements has joined the United Methodist Publishing House as associate publisher for Abingdon Press’s Christian fiction program, and a new Christian Living line that debut in the spring of 2012, […]

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January 26, 2010By Michael Cader

From Digital Book World, A New Social Metric to Worry About; Poetry Site Helps Sales

January 26, 2010By Michael Cader

Razorfish executive and author Shiv Singh kicked off the presentations to a full room at the inaugural Digital Book World conference in New York this morning. It’s always interesting for people in the relatively inward-focused book publishing business to hear from outside experts, and yet usually, unless those experts bring some particular understanding of publishing or work hard to modify their pitch to publishers’ complex needs, the advice tends to fall flat. There’s no arguing with Singh’s basic thesis–that consumers now have all the control, and communicating brands to them isn’t as simple as it used be. But many of […]

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November 4, 2009By Michael Cader

Sourcebooks Hopes to Make Poetry Speak More Broadly Online

November 4, 2009By Michael Cader

Following the success of their line of Poetry Speaks books, Sourcebooks is moving to dominate–and more importantly grow–the poetry “vertical” with their PoetrySpeaks.com web site. While the beta version of the site has just launched, it represents over five years of development work and an estimated $250,000 of investment from Sourcebooks. As ceo Dominique Raccah says, “When I did Poetry Speaks [the book] I honestly didn’t know if I was going to sell 2,000, 20,000 or 200,000 copies. What I see as an entrepreneur is that engagement drives sales. And if we get people excited and participating, we’ll find a […]

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