At McGraw-Hill Professional, Knox Huston has been promoted to senior editor in the Business Group. The Bent Agency is opening a UK branch, run by Molly Ker Hawn, who will be representing authors of YA and middle grade fiction exclusively for both the UK and US markets. She has had editorial roles at Chronicle and Dial and was national programs director for the Children’s Book Council. Rachel Fershleiser has joined Tumblr, where she specializes in outreach to authors, publishers, and literary organizations. She was previously community manager at Bookish. Anne Tyler has won the 2012 Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, […]
The 2012 Winter Institute Books Preview
The ABA’s Winter Institute convenes this week, and each year the number of attending authors and books being touted grows ever larger (this year more than 70 writers are taking part in various luncheons and evening receptions over the three-day event.) As part of our coverage of Wi7, and repeating what we did for last year’s Winter Institute, we’ve culled a list of what we think are the most notable forthcoming Winter and Spring adult trade titles being touted in New Orleans this week to ten — offering a mix of reviews of those we’ve already read with “scouting reports” […]
McGraw-Hill Said to Have Second Pairing with Apple
You can expect the steady stream of speculation over Apple’s “education announcement” on Thursday at the Guggenheim Museum in New York to continue unabated. The WSJ cites a person “familiar with the matter” who says that McGraw-Hill “has been working with Apple on its announcement since June.” The paper notes that Cengage Learning, which has worked with Apple in the past, will attend Thursday’s event, though we imagine most educational and textbook publishers will as well. Ironically, the Journal doesn’t seem to recall that McGraw-Hill was supposed to be one of the marquee launch partners when the iPad debuted in early 2010, […]
eNews: Tracking Kobo; Coliloquy Launches “Active Fiction”
Kobo’s evp of business development Todd Humphrey reiterates to Publishing Perspectives that both Brazil and Japan are “likely” markets for the ebook company in 2012, among “ten plus countries” Kobo has in their sights for 2012. Indeed ceo Michael Serbinis said late last year when the Rakuten purchase was announced that, “We expect to be in Japan early into the new year; we expect to be in Brazil next year and this is all possible now. We did a handful of countries this year and we’ll do a couple dozen next year.” But Kobo said last April that they expected […]
Corporate News: Bloomsbury Holds Steady; Bertelsmann Invests In Higher Ed
Bloomsbury released a non-specific “interim management update” for the final four months of the year on Monday that, true to the form, highlights everything good that happened and declares it a “strong” period. Others have hailed the declaration that “ebook sales grew significantly with the quarter ended December 31 being up 38 percent year on year,” but we thought that sounded weak next to most other year-over-year comps, particularly given that the UK market is supposed to have been growing at a faster rate than the US as it catches up. (Note that for the 6 months ending August 2011, […]
People, Etc.
Betsy Mitchell will work for Open Road as strategic advisor for sci-fi and fantasy, and will “spearhead” their acquisition and publishing of backlist sci-fi and fantasy titles. Mitchell retired from her position as editor-in-chief at Ballantine Bantam Dell’s Del Rey Spectra in December. She started her own editorial services company. At Norton, Alane Mason has been promoted to vp, executive editor. She has been an editor for the company since 1999. Barnaby Dawe, marketing communications director at News International, is moving over to corporate sibling Harper UK, in the new position of chief marketing officer. He will report to Victoria […]