CEO of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Tony Lucki, 60, is retiring on April 15 according to an internal memo reported by the WSJ. Barry O’Callaghan, the 39-year-old genius who built the parent company with a mountain of over $7 billion debt will make himself ceo, while still running Education Media & Publishing Group. Lucki will keep his title as nonexecutive chairman of the publisher, and O’Callaghan says “he’s going to continue to be my publishing mentor.” “Our biggest challenge is the U.S. economy,” O’Callaghan tells the Journal. “Our biggest customers are the states of Florida and California, and we all know […]
May Indie Next List
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyBrooklyn by Colm ToibinThe Last Child: A Novel by John HartThe Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif LarsenThe Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else by Christopher R. BehaWoodsburner: A Novel by John PipkinSecret Son: A Novel by Laila LalamiDark Places: A Novel by Gillian FlynnThe Wildwater Walking Club: A Novel by Claire Cook Sag Harbor: A Novel by Colson WhiteheadValeria’s Last Stand: A Novel by Marc FittenOn the Divinity of Second Chances: A […]
People
Denise Oswald will take over as editorial director of Soft Skull Press and senior editor at Counterpoint on April 20, filling the slot vacated by Richard Nash. Most recently she was senior editor at Farrar, Straus. Bowker ceo Annie Callahan will now also serve as coo of ProQuest. Both units are owned by Cambridge Information Group. At Riverhead, Sarah Bowlin has been promoted to assistant editor.
PM Reports Record Traffic In Q1
We’ve been busy reporting everyone else’s quarterly numbers, so we thought we would share a few of our own. Most notably, Publishers Marketplace has been hitting all-time high traffic numbers for the entire quarter. For March our true page views (leaving out hundreds of thousands of views from search engines, spiders, etc.) were over 1.2 million–with both page views and unique visitors up 32.5 percent over a year ago. And traffic was building throughout the quarter; up 12 percent in January, and 16 percent in February, and 20 percent overall for the quarter. We think a lot of it is […]
ABA Stays the Course Naming Teicher New CEO
The ABA has picked longtime chief operating officer Oren Teicher to succeed Avin Domnitz as the organization’s CEO. President Gayle Shanks writes to members, “His encyclopedic knowledge of everything associated with ABA’s past and current programs, coupled with his thoughtful and insightful analysis of how ABA can meet our future challenges, combined to make him our clear choice.” Shanks also notes that “as recommended several years ago by our Governance Review Committee, details surrounding the new CEO contract will be made available to the membership after they are finalized. The Board wants to assure the membership that the terms of […]
Awards: IMPAC Shortlist
Here are the eight titles in the running for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DÃaz (Dominican / American) Ravel by Jean Echenoz (French) in translationThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (Pakistani / British) The Archivist’s Story by Travis Holland (American) The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles by Roy Jacobsen (Norwegian) in translation. The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt (American) Animal’s People by Indra Sinha (Indian / British) Man Gone Down by Micheal Thomas (American) The winner will be named June 11.