News and opinion on the changing world of book publishing
February 2007
PEOPLE Beth Davey has gone to Rodale as VP Director of Public Relations. She was at Inkwell Management and before that, at Little, Brown. Andrew Malkin has left Ingram International to return to NY and Rodale, where he will be VP, Trade Book Sales, working closely with Holtzbrinck as their distribution client. And, Leigh Haber [...]
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July 2004
People June was a relatively quiet month, though that doesn’t guarantee a quiet summer, judging from the increase of job listings on industry job boards and murmurings around town: Harold Augenbraum is leaving The Mercantile Library to become Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, effective July 12. A search committee has been formed to [...]
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April 2004
PEOPLE Neil Ortenberg, EVP of the Avalon Publishing Group and Publisher of Thunders Mouth/Nation Books has resigned. He may be reached at (917) 620-4435. Becky Saletan is joining Harcourt as Editor in Chief in June. She was Editorial Director of North Point Press. Tina Pohlmann is also joining as Senior Editor, Harvest. She was Senior [...]
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March 2001
Industry Ad Spending Holds Steady, But Media Choices See-Saw As reports of widespread layoffs ricochet along Madison Avenue, and billboards still bear Christmas greetings downtown, the prospect of an advertising biz downturn has highlighted the fact that book publishers’ advertising habits — in terms of fact-based, industry-wide data — remain among the great unknowns of [...]
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