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People Roundup, February 2013

February 1, 2013

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Mary Ann Naples has been named the new Publisher of Rodale Books. She was Chief Business Development Officer at Zola and previously VP Talent, Head of Curator Team at Open Sky.

Eric Price has been appointed Director of Sales, Marketing, and Publicity for Quercus‘ new US operation. He was most recently at Grove Atlantic.

David Boyle joins HarperCollins in the newly created role of SVP, Consumer Insight, reporting to Chief Digital Officer Chantal Restivo-Alessi. In his new role Boyle, formerly SVP, Insight for EMI Music, will work with all divisions of HarperCollins.

Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA)’s President, Florrie Binford Kichler, will retire June 30, 2013. A search for her successor is under way.

Carissa Hays has moved to Crown Publishing Group as VP Executive Director of Publicity. She was at S&S first at Free Press and briefly at Atria. David Drake has been promoted to SVP and Deputy Publisher and Michael Palgon, current EVP and Deputy Publisher, is leaving at the end of the month. Jill Flaxman has been promoted to SVP Director, Publishing Operations (reporting to Maya Mavjee).

Elisabeth Dyssegaard, Editor in Chief of Hyperion, announced that Ruth Pomerance has joined Hyperion as Senior Editor, focusing on the acquisition and development for the Disney/ABC Television Group businesses. Most recently, Pomerance served as Executive Producer for the feature film adaptation of Judy Blume’s novel Tiger Eyes and consultant to various entertainment companies. In a separate announcement, Kerri Kolen has left Hyperion to join Putnam as Executive Editor.

Margot Atwell has left Beaufort Books as Publisher. She may be reached at matwell@gmail.com. Beaufort President Eric Kampmann will be taking over as Publisher.

Caitlin Graf is leaving Basic Books to be the Publicity Director for the Nation magazine. She was Senior Publicist for Basic Books and Nation Books.

Hannah Rahill will leave Weldon Owen Publishing after 18 years as its Food and Drink Publisher. Executive Editor Jennifer Newens and Associate Publisher Amy Marr will now oversee Food and Drink.

Scott Parris will join Oxford University Press USA as Executive Editor, Economics. He held the same title at Cambridge University Press. Read More »

The Care and Keeping of Your Metadata: The Metadata Handbook

By Kimberly Lew

January 30, 2013

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PublishingTrends.com continues its regular column in which we review, explicate, and excerpt books that we think will resonate with people in the business of publishing and media.

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While there’s no shortage of innovation on the digital book front when it comes to new platforms and features, questions of the digital future inevitably seem to lead back to a discussion of discoverability and, by extension, metadata. Up close and personal with XML and tagging, metadata can be the key for expanding audiences and simply being found. Especially for trade publishers, the right metadata can get books into classrooms and retail spaces where they might not have been before. The trick, of course, is to understand how metadata is used and interpreted and to integrate its development into every stage of the workflow process. Keeping up with ever-changing technology and continually updating metadata for backlist titles may seem daunting, but that is why The Metadata Handbook (DataCurate 2012) by Renée Register, Founder of DataCurate and metadata specialist, and Thad McIlroy, epublishing analyst and owner of The Future of Publishing blog, hopes to help clarify what metadata is and why it is important.

For the metadata experts and enthusiasts, The Metadata Handbook doesn’t delve too much into the minutiae; rather, it focuses on giving a comprehensive lay of the land in the first three of five parts of the book, and then featuring interviews with publishing professionals about the future of metadata in the final two parts. The former tries to define current metadata practices and how we got there, while the latter addresses the biggest issues facing its use in the future. Most of the themes of the book echo what has been said at conferences for the past few years, but the authors seem intent on covering the basics that everyone in the publishing industry—not just metadata specialists—should know about metadata. Read More »

Posted in Book Reviews • Tagged Book Industry Study Group, Bowker, DataCurate, Jonathan Nowell, Len Vlahos, Nielsen Book, ONIX 3.0, Pat Payton, Renée Register, Thad McIlroy, The Future of Publishing, The Metadata Handbook

The Art Book Biz is Booming. Just Ask These Publishers.

By Lorraine Shanley

January 29, 2013

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The topic at a recent American Book Producer Association (ABPA)’s brown bag lunch panel – open to nonmembers for $20 – was art books, and three publishers spoke to the assembled group of packagers about what is working, where it’s selling, and what projects they‘re looking for. Thames & Hudson’s President/Publisher Will Balliett, National Geographic’s recently named VP Editorial Director, Janet Goldstein, and Rizzoli’s Associate Publisher Jim Muschett engaged the audience in a lively, surprisingly upbeat discussion of what makes a successful art book. It differed for the three: for NGS, it was something that fit the Society’s mission and offered “value at a moderate price”; for Thames & Hudson, a multilingual, high quality book that could be sold worldwide was important; and for Jim Muschett, special sales opportunities were a big part of the successful book’s formula.

All agreed that social media is currently less important than reviews, or a book making a “best book of the year list.” Ebooks have not yet proven themselves in this category – despite each having worked with Apple, at its inception, to create iBooks. On the other hand, high quality design and manufacturing is increasingly important and, for Rizzoli and T&H, price (even above $100) is less critical than it once seemed to be. There were several reasons given for this, including decorators buying books for clients’ shelves – “books as staging,” one packager in the audience commented knowingly. And an appreciation for quality seems to go hand in hand with a willingness to pay luxury prices for it.

The publishers agreed it was important for packagers who want to do business with them to present a fully developed, well researched concept – “cook it a little more,” said Muschett, echoing an earlier comment from Goldstein – because with shrinking staffs, no one in house has the time to devote to creating a book from scratch. It’s important, too, that publisher and packager can work together to bring in the best book for the right price, which ABPA president Richard Rothschild referred to in his experience with NGS as “horse trading.” There was a lot of openness to the possibility of a packager supplying all components of the book, or just the design or editorial, and also surprising willingness to discuss which foreign rights might be retained or returned, if not sold within a reasonable amount of time.

Meanwhile, ABPA announced that its website is being revamped, and will soon have information about its thirty or so members that includes their subject category specialties, samples of their books, links to their URLs, and contact information. By the end of February, this will be available at their website, ABPAonline.org

Posted in Events • Tagged American Book Producer Association (ABPA), Apple, art book, Janet Goldstein, Jim Muschet, National Geographic, Richard Rothschild, Rizzoli, Thames & Hudson, Will Balliett

The Cairo Book Fair 2013: Traditional Business in a Revolutionary World

By Elisabeth Watson

January 24, 2013

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Official poster for the 2013 Cairo International Book Fair.

The 44th Cairo International Book Fair (CIBF), scheduled to run January 23-February 5, 2013, is the second held since the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, but the first since the election of President Mohamed Morsi and his cabinet. More specifically, the Fair’s coincidence with the January 25th anniversary of the Revolution inevitably ties it to questions about post-revolutionary Egypt. “Irrespective of how many times you might have been to the CIBF, the situation in Egypt is evolving at such a rate that the Fair of three years ago would be very different from the Fair of today,” said Dr. Nigel Fletcher-Jones, Director of the American University in Cairo Press. “What the spirit of this year’s CIBF will be is anyone’s guess.”

The “spirit” of the Fair has had its ups and downs in the past 40+ years. The first CIBF hosted 8 countries, with 262 publishers in 1969, reports Samir Saad Khalil, a Cairo-based publishing consultant and the Fair’s Director from its launch in 1969 until 2002. By 1991, the CIBF had grown to host publishers from 92 countries, an international scope nearing that of Frankfurt at the time. During the deteriorating Egyptian political situation of the mid-90’s the Cairo Book Fair began to fall from prominence. The Cairo Fairgrounds which had long hosted the Fair fell into such disrepair that all Halls and outbuildings were dismantled. Though there had been plans to rebuild, “the budget for reconstruction disappeared in governmental upheaval during the 2011 revolution,” said Khalil, “leaving the grounds empty of any buildings.” Tents were nevertheless erected last year and again this year, and will function in place of the missing halls.

The book industry in which the CIBF boomed and faded–and the one to which it is attempting to return–is one in which fairs play a pivotal role. “There is still no book distribution system in the Arab world,” says Cornelia Helle, Frankfurt Book Fair Sales Manager for the Middle East and Iran. “The publishers absolutely depend on…the many book fairs for the purpose of buying and selling. They have to go there if they wish to survive.” Samir Khalil points out that most countries in the region have two fairs per year (the second Egyptian fair is held in Alexandria): “I know a lot of Arab publishers who move directly from one book fair to another for seven to eight months out of the year” in order to adequately distribute their books.

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People Roundup, Mid-January 2013

By PT Editors

January 18, 2013

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Andrew Weber was named Global Trade Chief Operating Officer at Macmillan. He was most recently at Bonobos.com and had been at Random House as VP Ops and Technology. He is taking on many of the duties of Brian Napack, who stepped down as President of Macmillan in December 2011 (and then joined Providence Equity Partners). Weber reports to John Sargent.

Egmont USA has hired Literary Agent Andrea Cascardi from the Transatlantic Literary Agency for the new combined role of Managing Director and Publisher, effective immediately. Previous she was Associate Publishing Director at Random House Children’s for the Knopf and Crown imprints. Current publisher Elizabeth Law is leaving after five years with the company. In a separate announcement, Fiona Kenshole will join the TLA, representing children’s illustrators and authors. She was most recently VP of Development Acquisition at Laika Inc.

Allison Devlin has been appointed VP Marketing Director at Running Press, succeeding Craig Herman, who may be reached at craigmichaelherman@gmail.com. She has been Marketing Director at Crown, overseeing Potter Craft, Watson Guptill and Martha Stewart books, and had previously been at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, HarperCollins Children’s Books and DK Publishing. Devlin will divide her time between the Running Press office in Philadelphia and the Perseus office in NYC.

Random House Publishing Group announced that it has decentralized trade paperback publishing, with each imprint publishing its own paperback list, and that SVP Publisher Trade Paperbacks, Jane von Mehren, has left the company. She may be reached at janevonmehren@yahoo.com

Hyperion’s EiC Elisabeth Dyssegaard announced that Ruth Pomerance is joining the company as Senior Editor effective January 28, focusing on acquisition and development of new stories and author talent that will translate across the Disney/ABC Television Group businesses. Most recently, Pomerance was Executive Producer for the feature film adaptation of Judy Blume’s novel Tiger Eyes and a film consultant.

The Hachette Book Group announced it has completed the restructuring of its sales operation that began last October, appointing David Epstein as VP of Sales, Young Readers. Epstein was most recently Director of National Accounts for Disney. He will report to Chris Murphy, SVP of Retail Sales.

Jennifer Levesque, Abrams‘ Editorial Director, Adult Trade, has left the company and may be reached at jennifer.levesque@gmail.com

Brad Parsons has been hired for the new position of Director of Culinary Marketing at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, starting January 28. He was previously Associate Director, Online Marketing at Grand Central Publishing and had been Senior Books Editor at Amazon. Anne Hoppe is joining HMH/Clarion Books as Senior Executive Editor. She was previously Executive Editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books, where she spent 18 years.

Barbara Lalicki , VP Editorial Director at HarperCollins Children’s Books, will retire at the end of January. Lalicki came to Harper in 1999 during the merger with William Morrow, where she had been publisher of Morrow Junior Books.

Andrea Rogoff joined Picador as a publicist on January 8. She was most recently an Associate Publicist at S & S. Read More »

Posted in Book View • Tagged ABC Television Group, Agustina Casal, Allison Devlin, Amazon, Andrea Rogoff, Andrew Weber, Anne Hoppe, Barbara Lalicki, Bonobos.com, Brad Parsons, Brian Napack, Cassie Jones, Chris Murphy, Christopher Dufault, Clarion Books, Craig Herman, Crown, David Epstein, Disney, DK Publishing, Doris Cooper, Egmont USA, Elisabeth Dyssegaard, Elizabeth Law, Fiona Kenshole, Free Press, Gallery Books, Gallery/Pocket, Grand Central Publishing, HarperCollins Children's Books, HMH, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Hyperion, Jamie Raab, Jane Von Mehren, Jen Bergstrom, John Sargent, Knopf, Laika, Lance Fitzgerald, Lisa Keim, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Louise Burke, Macmillan, Martha Stewart, Maya Ziv, Paul O'Halloran, Perseus, Peter Carson, Picador, Potter Craft, Providence Equity Partners, Random House, Running Press, Ruth Pomerance, S & S, Scribner, The Hachette Book Group, Threshold, Tina Andreadis, Touchstone, Watson-Guptill

Sales Across Borders: International Ebook Sales at DBW 2013

By Elisabeth Watson

January 18, 2013

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The Digital Book World 2013 panels, “Sales Across Borders: Export” and “Sales Across Borders: Import” (back to back on Wednesday afternoon) were both concerned with the question of what new digital systems best allow books to travel across international boundaries—though their approaches were hardly two sides of one coin.

On the Export panel, there was more or less uniform agreement among the panelists (all of whom work for major US distributors) that successful digital export depends on three main components: globally integrated POD systems; platform agnosticism (referring here to a single system’s ability to distribute print or digital titles as needed), and good global partnerships with local etailers. In contrast, the Import panel focused on what made each panelist’s international ebook sales approach unique. Most ambitious is Bastei Lübbe’s International Digital department: since being founded in 2010, it has identified English, Spanish, and Chinese as its three target language markets, and is undertaking its own translations and negotiating sales relationships with etailers around the world. The next move, said Bastei Lübbe International Sales Manager Marion König, is to acquire original English-language content to sell around the world in the original English and in translation. A more hybrid approach is Open Road Media’s “publishing partnerships” with European publishers. While Open Road does the English-language marketing and distributing of various translated titles, translation and editorial remain the original publishers’ responsibility.

Posted in Events, International • Tagged Bastei Lübbe, Chitra Bopardikar, Cyrus Kheradi, DBW, Digital Book World Conference and Expo 2013, export, import, Ingram, International sales, Kelly Gallagher, Marion König, Open Road Media, Perseus, Random House

The Kids Are All Right: Insight from the 2013 Publishers Launch Children’s Publishing Goes Digital conference

By Kimberly Lew

January 16, 2013

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At DBW’s Publishers Launch: Children’s Publishing Goes Digital, there was no shortage of words like discoverability or access, both necessities in helping new digital kids’ products find their audiences. But as a Bowker study presented by Bookigee founder Kristen McLean and Bowker executive Carl Kulo showed, ebook adoption among kids remains modest with ebooks being the preferred format of only 10% of teens. And with the influence of libraries and bookstores dropping with every annual survey, the challenge for publishers to have their digital products discovered becomes all the more difficult.

So what do children’s publishers need to reach and realize their core audience through the ether? Many platforms attempted to answer that question, from wildly popular storytelling quest site Poptropica to Scholastic’s accessible reading platform Storia, from nostalgic app from RRKidz to interactive preschool channel Magic Town. All platforms presented great environments for readers to discover and play and even Simon & Schuster’s Mara Anastas talked about how third party websites helped make series Dork Diaries a hit. But the competition among them for publisher partnerships was palpable, leading to Idea Logical founder Mike Shatzkin’s astute question of the day: are these platforms ideal collaborators or are they ultimately competition? Kate Wilson, Managing Director of Nosy Crow, tackled the question by comparing platforms to bookstores; publishers have always had to choose between retail channels, it’s just about finding options that will lead to “leaders of influence.” Karen Lotz, President and Publisher of Candlewick, said that the tenuous relationship between these third party sites and publishers pinpointed why Candlewick was following a strategy of “leading by not going first” and waiting to see where the marketplace goes.

Another theme of the day in regards to helping kids discover digital books was that publishers must redefine what exactly a “book” is. During a panel on publishers creating their own original intellectual property, Eric Huang, Director of New Business and IP Acquisitions for Penguin Children’s UK, argued that publishers have the same storytelling power as Hollywood studios– they just need to be able to see how a book fits into the greater world of a franchise concept. The idea that kids’ definition of a book is changing was backed by Bowker data revealing that most kids consider books just as important as other types of media (less so among boys) and Darien, CT librarian Gretchen Caserotti’s observation that parents’ definition of a “book” (often referring to novels) differs greatly from kids’ (which can include various genres and formats). Read More »

Posted in Digital, Events, Featured Articles • Tagged Bookigee, Bowker, Brain Hive, Candlewick, Carl Kulo, children's publishing, DBW, Dork Diaries, Eric Huang, Gretchen Caserotti, Idea Logical, Karen Lotz, Kate Wilson, Kristen McLean, Learning Resource Metadata Initiative, Magic Town, Mara Anastas, Mike Shatzkin, myON, Neal Goff, Nosy Crow, Penguin Children’s UK, Poptropica, Publishers Launch: Children’s Publishing Goes Digital, Random Buzzers, RRKidz, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Storia

Publishing Trends Annual Contact Sheet 2013

By PT Editors

January 10, 2013

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For more than 15 years, Publishing Trends has published a range of annually updated contact sheets, focusing on everything from Freelance Publicity and Scouting, to more recent additions, like the App Developer Roundup. However, none of our contact sheets is as popular as our general US publishing industry contact sheet, which features publishers large and small, accounts, trade associations, and more. This year, we are proud to offer our most comprehensive version as a free PDF download. Click the image below to download the Publishing Trends Annual Contact Sheet 2013.

Click on the image of the chart above for a full PDF version of the 2013 Annual Contact Sheet.

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People Roundup, January 2013

By PT Editors

January 7, 2013

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Charlie Conrad will be joining Gotham Books as Executive Editor; he was previously Vice President and Executive Editor at Crown Trade, a division of Random House.

Allison Devlin has been appointed VP Marketing Director at Running Press, replacing Craig Herman. She has been Marketing Director at Crown, overseeing the Potter Craft, Watson Guptill and Martha Stewart brand publications.

Amber Qureshi is joining Seven Stories as Associate Publisher and Executive Editor. She was most recently an Executive Editor at Viking.

Roger Cooper is launching a publishing consulting firm, Roger Cooper Associates; he was formerly the Publisher at the Vanguard imprint at Perseus. In his new venture, he will be working with publishers and literary agents with ebook publishing programs to acquire digital content, and with business authors and companies to develop print and digital properties. He can be reached at rcoopernyc@gmail.com.

Brendan Cahill has stepped down as CEO of NatureShare/Green Mountain Digital and will remain an advisor to the company’s Chairman. He can be reached at brendanjcahill@yahoo.com.

Andrea Vuleta will become Executive Director of the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association in mid-January, Shelf Awareness reports. Most recently she was Store Manager at Mrs. Nelson’s Toy and Book Shop in La Verne, CA.

Barbara Lalicki, Senior VP and Editorial Director at HarperCollins Children’s Books, will retire at the end of January. Previously she was Director of Children’s Publishing at the National Geographic Society, Editorial Director at Macmillan’s Books for Young Readers, and Editorial Director at Bradbury.

Esi Sogah has joined Kensington as Senior Editor. She was most recently Associate Editor at Avon.

Jacks Thomas, currently joint CEO of Midas Public Relations, has been appointed as Senior Exhibition Director on The London Book Fair replacing Alistair Burtenshaw.

Publicity firm, Media Connect (formerly Planned Television Arts) has 2 new staff members: Steve Matteo arrives as a Publicity Manager. Steve worked for nearly 11 years as the Publicity Manager for Barron’s. In addition, we’re joined by Associate Publicist Nicole Martineau in our Washington, DC office.

Emma Patterson and Emily Forland, formerly of the Wendy Weil Agency, will be joining Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents as Agents.

Jennifer Garza has joined the Simon & Schuster Publicity Department as a Publicity Manager. She most recently worked at Media Connect.

At Penguin Group‘s Portfolio, Sentinel, and Current imprints, Kristen Gastler has been hired as a Senior Publicist. She had been at Doubleday previously. Margot Stamas has moved over to the group as a publicist from Putnam and Riverhead; Christy D’Agostini has been promoted to Senior Publicist; and Jacquelynn Burke has been promoted to Publicist.

Matt Shatz has left his position as Head of Content Relations at Nokia.

Director of Digital Publishing David Schiffman has left Yale University Press and will work on “several key” university projects. Kate Brown assumes direct responsibility for all business development and product development activities at the Press.

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Small Language Publishing in 2012

By Elisabeth Watson

December 27, 2012

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As we took stock of 2012’s publishing milestones and discussed what 2013 held in store, we thought it would be an ideal time to get a global view of what the year was like for publishing in “smaller” languages—for our purposes here, those languages spoken by fewer than 100 million native speakers worldwide.

Publishing Trends last covered smaller language publishing in June 2011, when we explored the trend of original publishers doing their own full English-language translations as a way to encourage rights sales. This year, we asked small language publishing professionals from around the world to share what their thoughts on the most important (or surprising) trends and events in their countries’ book industries this year. We’ve collected their responses on the map below, and wish all our readers another year of great publishing, no matter the language or location.

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Further resources on book publishing in the countries highlighted on this map:

ESTONIA: Varrak Publishers; Estonian Publishers Association

FAROE ISLANDS: Vitra, Faroese ebook platform; FarLit, an organization for the promotion of Faroese literature

GREECE: Nikos Dimou, author of On the Unhappiness of Being Greek; Ersilia Literary Agency

ICELAND: Portfolio, the newly-launched publisher of Iceland’s 2012 bestseller; Sögueyjan Ísland, the Frankfurt 2011 site on Icelandic publishers and literature

ISRAEL: “Publishing in Israel: A Snapshot Overview” on Publishing Perspectives; Kinneret Zmora Dvir Publishing House; The Book Publishers Association of Israel

ROMANIA: Editora Univers; Romanian Publishers Association (AER)

SLOVENIA: Mladinska knjiga publishers; Slovenian Association of Book Publishers

TURKEY: “Ayşe Kulin ranks first in Forbes Turkey list of top-earning authors”, in Today’s Zaman; Ayşe Kulin’s author website; Turkish Publishers Association

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People Roundup, February 2013

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The Care and Keeping of Your Metadata: The Metadata Handbook

The Art Book Biz is Booming. Just Ask These Publishers.

The Cairo Book Fair 2013: Traditional Business in a Revolutionary World

People Roundup, Mid-January 2013

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Sales Across Borders: International Ebook Sales at DBW 2013

The Kids Are All Right: Insight from the 2013 Publishers Launch Children’s Publishing Goes Digital conference

Publishing Trends Annual Contact Sheet 2013

People Roundup, January 2013

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