Personnel News Justin Loeber has been appointed svp, executive director of marketing and publicity for Regan Media, starting in early January. (Paul Crichton left the imprint recently.) Loeber has been director of publicity for Atria and Washington Square Press since last year, but previously worked at HarperCollins as publicity director for Harper and Ecco. Also at Harper, Sandee Roston will be join the children’s book division as executive director of publicity in early December. She was associate publisher at Avalon. Nicole Winstanley will join Penguin Canada as senior editor of fiction and narrative non-fiction in mid-February 2006, reporting publisher David […]

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The Gobble Gap Please expect no more regular Lunch until next Tuesday, except for the weekly deal round-up. News and news clips will be posted at the PublishersMarketplace.com home page, so check in there if you like. As always, all the other site functions — deals, job board, databases, etc. — will continue at their usual pace. Have a happy thanksgiving. Personnel News Following the departure of Jean Feiwel, Scholastic has hired Andrea Davis Pinkney as publisher, hardcover and early childhood, starting in early December and reporting to Trade Publishing and Book Fair president Lisa Holton. (Pinkney was publisher of […]

Sheehan’s Book Lands This Week “Peace mom” Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq who has drawn attention for her campaign against the war, has written a book that is being issued by Hawaii’s Koa Books on Wednesday. It’s the first book from the press, which says they have printed 20,000 copies to start. Founder Arnie Kotler (also the founding director of Parallax Press) intends to focus on books “on personal transformation, progressive politics, and native cultures.” The AP reports, “Sheehan, who met Kotler through a mutual friend, said she accepted Kotler’s offer rather than work with […]

Monday, November 21 If for some reason this has reached you even though you are not a paying member of PublishersMarketplace, please visit the link below to join us all the time for complete deal reports and more. Click to register http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/register.shtml Deal Reports Just e-mail to deals@PublishersMarketplace if you aren’t using the online form linked below. Report a deal using the online form The Key As usual, the handy key to our Lunch deal categories. While all reports are always welcome, those that include a category will generally receive a higher listing when it comes time to put them […]

BAM’s Loss Is As Expected Books-a-Million (BAM) lost under $1 million in their fiscal third quarter, a slight improvement over a year ago, on sales of $108 million, which were up just 0.6 percent on a same-store basis compared to a year ago. Ironically, though the company blamed the bad hurricane sales for weak performance when downgrading projections in late September, they still benefited from “insurance recoveries for three stores that were permanently damaged by hurricanes during last fiscal year.” BAM release BN Leads Big Chains for Third Quarter For their third quarter, Barnes & Noble slightly exceeded previous projections […]