News and opinion on the changing world of book publishing
May 2006
PEOPLE Betsy Groban has been named VP Publisher of Children’s Books at Houghton Mifflin. She had previously been at WGBH and prior to that, at Little, Brown. Earlier this month Linda Magram was promoted to the new position of Director of Marketing for the entire children’s book group, adding responsibilities for such imprints as Kingfisher [...]
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February 2006
Rarely a week goes by without a PW or Publishers Lunch announcement of a newly formed, merged or expanded literary agency. Larry Kirshbaum‘s well-publicized move from TWBG to form LJK Literary Management last fall drew attention to publishers-turned-agents, and both Gawker and MediaBistro consistently blog about who’s merging with whom to spawn the newest so-called [...]
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September 2005
PEOPLE It seems as though anyone who wasn’t on vacation or sabbatical this month was busy changing jobs: Liz Perl has been named VP Publisher of Rodale, reporting to Tami Booth Corwin. She was previously Associate Publisher of Penguin‘s Riverhead, Perigee, HP, Portfolio and Sentinel lines and Director of Marketing and Executive Director of Publicity [...]
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February 2004
When F+W Publications mines an enthusiast vein, it goes deep. No retailable nugget of esoterica, it seems, is too recondite for the Cincinnati-headquartered magazine, book, and book club empire, which publishes such über-niche offerings as Aggressive Whitetail Hunting and Raw Edge Appliqué. It operates Camp Memory Makers, the weekend scrapbooking retreat, and The Fantasy Football [...]
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