Preliminary (unaudited) data shows BookCon attendance nudging up to 21,500 people from 20,000 at past shows. The early number for Book Expo attendees — including media, but excluding exhibitors — was 8,260 (which usually includes about 1,200 press). But regular readers know we’ve been having a lot of trouble making sense of their numbers. We…
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At Simon & Schuster, Doug Stambaugh has been promoted to vp, director, strategic operations and business development, reporting to Dennis Elau. He will lead, integrate and coordinate efforts domestically as well as globally in support of business initiatives, future growth and day-to-day operations. Newly reporting to Stambaugh are Joe Bulger (vp, business development) and Frank…
Taddeo’s Three Women Tops July Indie Next List
Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women, the debut book from Avid Reader Press, is the No. Indie Next pick for July. The rest of the list, including three titles excerpted in Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer, marked with an asterisk, is as follows: *Stay and Fight, by Madeline ffitch The Most Fun We Ever Had, by Claire Lombardo…
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Lisa Erickson has joined Harper Perennial and Harper paperbacks as marketing director. She was previously at Crown. Jon Michael Darga has joined Aevitas Creative Management as an agent. He was previously an assistant editor at Crown. Madeline Jones has been promoted to associate editor at Holt. Sophie Christopher, 28, senior publicity manager at Transworld in the UK and co-founder of…
Andrews McMeel to Print Epic’s Digital Originals; Octopus Acquires Short Books
Andrews McMeel will publish a new line of printed children’s books based on digital originals from the children’s subscription service Epic!, which says it is “used by more than 10 million children in homes and schools.” (In March, Epic! said they had over 1.7 million subscribers.) Those Epic! Originals have drawn over 8 million reads…
AAP: Nadler Talks Tough On Tech Antitrust, and Judiciary Opens Investigation
Chair of the House Judiciary Committee Representative Jerry Nadler appeared at the Association of American Publishers’ annual meeting on Wednesday to accept their annual distinguished public service award. Nadler’s brief remarks came ahead of the announcement at the end of the day of the committee’s broad “bipartisan investigation into competition in digital markets.” The committee…