Sandi Kirshner has been named chief marketing officer at Cengage, working out of the company’s Boston office. Previously she was evp, higher education policy at Pearson. Quarto has entered into a number of distribution agreements with Hachette UK and US for several of its imprints. Quayside Publishing Group will be distributed by Hachette US effective January 1, 2014, and Hachette UK subsidiary Littlehampton Book Services as of July 1. Littlehampton will also distribute Aurum Publishing Group titles as of September.
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Knopf Doubleday has announced a number of promotions in the division’s publicity department. Michiko Clark has been promoted to director of publicity, Pantheon & Schocken, while Michelle Somers moves up to associate director of publicity. Josie Kals has been promoted to publicity manager, Knopf & Pantheon, while also taking on added responsibility for the division’s poetry program. Elizabeth Lindsay and Erica Hinsley both move up to publicist, while Erinn McGrath has been promoted to associate publicist. Separately, Sara Eagle has been named marketing manager, effective July 8, having most recently been a senior publicist, and Lena Khidritsaya is leaving the […]
The Defense Rests, As Judge Cote Says “The Issues Have Shifted”
Just after 2:30 PM on Wednesday afternoon Apple rested its case in the ebook price-fixing trial. Expert witnesses Michelle Burtils and Kevin Murphy, as well as head of the iBookstore Robert McDonald, completed their testimony and closing arguments will take place Thursday. As previously reported, the government and Apple are each allotted two and a half hours each to make concluding remarks (and answer any final questions Judge Cote has.) Different accounts over Apple’s ebook market share continued as McDonald disagreed with Eddy Cue. His written testimony, which he stood by, indicates, “While it is difficult to obtain definitive information on […]
In Court: BN’s Theresa Horner Testifies
Sandwiched between the concluding testimony of one of the defense’s expert witnesses and the initial testimony of a second expert for Apple was Barnes & Noble’s vp, digital content Theresa Horner. As a witness for Apple, she was called to show that the bookseller had already been contemplating alternatives to the wholesale model as early as April 2009, before they launched their ebookselling business. (Horner’s earlier deposition was introduced into court as direct testimony; what transpired Tuesday was cross-examination and redirect.) The company understood, per an internal ebook pricing document brought to attention by Apple’s Orin Snyder, that “in the […]
Springer Sold To BC Partners After All For 3.3 Billion Euros
The longstanding efforts by private equity owners EQT and the Singaporean sovereign-wealth fund to sell Springer Science has come to an end after another late-game twist. Just five days after announcing they would walk away from BC Partners’ recent offer to buy the company and pursue a long-contemplated IPO, Springer’s owners closed the deal with BC for approximately €3.3 billion euros. Sources told Reuters that EQT and the Singaporean fund “would keep a stake of about 10 percent in Springer between them, with BC Partners confirming the minority stake. The purchase, which also depends on Springer’s future performance, will be backed […]
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Anna Knutson has joined Barer Literary as foreign rights director. Knutson was previously a senior literary scout at Maria B. Campbell Associates. Stephanie Kim has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as senior publicist. Previously she was public relations coordinator at Hulu. Sara Grubb has joined the Irene Goodman Literary Agency full-time to manage the agency’s audio rights. Karen Li will join OwlKids as editorial director on July 15. Previously she was a senior editor at Kids Can Press. Simone Garzella Literary Scouting has been appointed US literary scout for Massolit Forlag in Sweden and KRP in Turkey. Award-winning journalist for Rolling […]