PEOPLE Founder and Owner David R. Godine will step down as Publisher of his eponymous company at the end of the year, ahead of its 50th anniversary in 2020. The new owner is William N. Thorndike, Jr. A new management team will come on board in July. Craig Popelars is joining Tin House Books as…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Mauro DiPreta has joined the William Morrow Group as SVP, Executive Editor. Previously he was VP and Publisher at Hachette Book Group. Lonely Planet has named Luis Cabrera its President and CEO. He joins from BCG Digital Ventures, where he was Partner. Berrett-Koehler’s board of directors has selected David Marshall as the company’s new…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has hired Jack Lynch as President and CEO. L. Gordon Crovitz will continue as interim CEO while Lynch wraps up his work as CEO of Renaissance Learning and relocates to Boston. Cal Morgan has returned to publishing as VP, Executive Editor of Riverhead. He was previously Editorial Director for Harper Paperback…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Lisa Lucas will become the Executive Director of the National Book Foundation in Mid-March, taking over for Harold Augenbraum. She is the Publisher of Guernica magazine and a nonfiction co-chair for the Brooklyn Book Festival. Mary Ann Naples will become VP, Publisher at Disney Book Group in Mid-March. She was previously SVP, Publisher at…Continue Reading
