Both the WSJ and the NYT welcome new Barnes & Noble ceo James Daunt with profile pieces: The Journal’s article is shorter, but fact-based, while the Times’s piece is romantic and features various errors and misunderstandings. The WSJ has no trouble stating Waterstones’ fiscal 2018 results plainly: “An underlying profit of £16.32 million across its…
Krueger’s This Tender Land Tops September Indie Next List
The ABA named This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger as its No. 1 Indie Next pick for September. Also on the list are David Koepp’s Cold Storage, Soren Sveistrup’s The Chestnut Man, Meg Waite Clayton’s The Last Train to London, and Alex North’s The Whisper Man, all excerpted and available for download in our…
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Julie Buntin has been promoted to editor-at-large at Catapult. Alexandra Primiani has joined Avid Reader Press as publicity manager. Most recently, she worked at Melville House. Aurora Bell has joined the University of South Carolina Press as acquisitions editor, regional books and other titles. She was previously associate editor at Countryman Press. Sam Morgan has joined…
Elliott Advisors Officially Acquires Barnes & Noble
August 6 was the closing date for the tender offer for Barnes & Noble shares, and Elliott Advisors reports that approximately 82 percent of all shares outstanding were tendered. Those shares — and with it the entire BN — are paid for today, August 7, and Barnes & Noble has officially become a “privately held,…
People, Etc.: Toni Morrison Dies at 88
Toni Morrison, 88, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1988 Pulitzer for fiction, died on Monday night at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Robert Gottlieb, Morrison’s longtime editor at Knopf, said in statement, “She was a great woman and a great writer, and I don’t know which I will…
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Sarah New will join Knopf as publicist starting August 6. She was previously associate publicist at Bloomsbury. At Workman Publishing, Amanda German has been promoted to gift sales coordinator. Ally McNamara becomes sales coordinator within the trade sales department. Katharina Gadow has joined as national accounts manager, online sales. Most recently, she was national account manager at DK…