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Marco Ausenda will step up to chairman of the board of both Rizzoli International Publications and Rizzoli Bookstores, and will relinquish his position as president and ceo at both companies.

Stefano Peccatori will succeed him as president and ceo. Peccatori will also continue in his roles at Rizzoli’s Italian parent company Mondadori Libri, where he is general manager and publisher of Sperling & Kupfer, Piemme and Mondadori Electa.

Lauren Monaco expands her responsibilities in the new role of svp, sales director, for both the Penguin and Knopf Doubleday Publishing Groups. (She has overseen Penguin sales for the past 8 years.) VP, imprint sales director Andy Dudley, who will continue to report to Monaco, will also now work with the KDPG imprints in addition to the Penguin group lines.

Chrissy Helaine is promoted to vice president, director of national accounts, Penguin Publishing Group and DK Adult.

Dan Berkowitz has been promoted to executive director, paid marketing.

Jennifer Jackson has been promoted to executive vice president.

Juliet Annan joins on February 27 as publishing director, reporting to Jenny Lord. She left Fig Tree, which she founded, in 2020 to pursue a Master’s degree.

Longtime staff members senior reviews editor Peter Cannon and senior news editor Calvin Reid have retired.

Franklin & Siegal Associates has been appointed US scout for Planeta in Brazil and Storyhouse Egmont in Croatia.

The company will add print-on-demand book manufacturing to its distribution center in Chambersburg, PA. As a result of that expansion, they will retire their facility in nearly Allentown, PA in October 2023, and integrate that print business into the upgraded Chambersburg plant. Ingram says it “will maintain the capacity to continue to fulfill all new and existing orders without a break in service or turn-around times.”