PEOPLE At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Mike Evans joins as Chief Revenue Officer on September 16. He was most recently Chief Financial Officer at McGraw-Hill Education. Rachel Sanders, most recently Marketing Director at ReaderLink, joins as Director, Field Sales and Events. Additionally, Debbie Engel has retired as VP, Subsidiary Rights. Jackie De Leo, formerly VP of…Continue Reading
The slide has been slow, but inexorable: Subsidiary Rights, once one of the biggest profit centers in publishing, has retreated over the years to a marginalized — though still essential — role in most houses. leaving foreign rights as the focus of many departments. With this reconstitution and reconfiguration, those in the business are finding…Continue Reading
Never known for its glamor, the permissions department has been getting a facelift and slowly gaining status as the legitimate, income-generating department it has always been. Its doing its fair share to boost the collective, otherwise sagging coffers of rights departments that have been hit by the retrenchment and subsequent mergers of book clubs as…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Harcourt reports that Laurie Brown has been hired as SVP, Director of Trade Sales and Marketing for Adult and Juvenile Publishing. She formerly held that position at FSG. Lori Benton rejoins Harcourt as VP Publisher of Children’s Books, replacing Louise Pelan, who has taken early retirement. She comes from Holt, where she was Associate…Continue Reading
