The Spring Girls by Anna Todd is the Costco Pennie’s Pick for April. Amazon‘s spotlight pick for the month is Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl and the featured debut is Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton. Also on the list are Lori Gottlieb’s Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and Meredith May’s The…
McGraw-Hill Reports 2018 Declines
McGraw-Hill reported its 2018 Q4 and full-year earnings and annual report today, with overall 2018 revenue of $1.6 billion. This is the fifth straight year of sales decline for the company, down from $1.83 billion in 2014. For the quarter, performance was “generally in-line with expectations,” with total billings down to $302 million from $340…
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Veronica Jordan has been promoted to executive vice president, general counsel of Simon & Schuster, reporting to president and ceo Carolyn Reidy. She succeeds Hazel-Ann Mayers, who moved over in February to evp, chief business ethics & compliance officer at CBS Corporation. Jennifer Weidman has been promoted to senior vice president, deputy general counsel. Reidy…
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The U.S. Copyright Office named Karyn Temple register of copyrights. Temple has been the acting registrar since 2016. Lilla Weinberger, 78, co-owner of Readers’ Books in Sonoma, CA died on March 24. She founded the store with her husband Andy Weinberger in 1991. HarperCollins Italia launched its first children’s list, beginning with 25 titles in…
Latimer and Urbahn’s Javelin Offers Trump World Figures an Exit
As government officials look to leave the “controversial precincts of Trump World” their job options are slimmer than usual. Many find their way to literary agents Matt Latimer and Keith Urbahn at Javelin who “have turned this professional abyss into their market niche,” the NYT Magazine writes. The right book deal provides money as well…
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Karen Murgolo has joined Aevitas Creative Management as an agent. Previously she was editorial director at Grand Central Life & Style. At Sourebooks, Heather Hall has been promoted to associate managing editor and Cassie Gutman to senior production editor. Twenty-First Century Books editorial director Domenica DiPiazza is retiring on March 29. She has been with the…