PEOPLE Rodale’s Publisher, Karen Rinaldi has left the company following a reorganization. She may be reached at karen.rinaldi1@gmail.com. David Zinczenko and Steve Perrine will take over the book group. Top executives Ken Citron and Gregg Michaelson, along with Senior Director Operations Bill Siebert, will also leave the company. Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) has hired Michael…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Judy Hottensen is resigning as Publisher of Weinstein Books to return to Grove/Atlantic, where she worked from 1992 to 2005. She will become Associate Publisher, taking over duties from Eric Price (whose departure was announced last month in PT). Elisabeth Schmitz has been promoted to VP, Editorial Director and Deb Seager has been promoted…Continue Reading
Frequent flyers of all stripes are heading for the hangar, as book fairs and other conventions suffer dampened numbers if not dowsed spirits. Sources tell PT that attendance at the Salon du Livre was off 20%, despite extra ebullience from the Canadian contingent, after young Quebecer Marie Hélène Poitras took home the third annual Prix…Continue Reading
As globalization and its discontents continue to rumble across European book markets, among those nations bidding earnestly for a share of multinational manna is that one-time world titan, Greece. Casting its former Hellenocentric viewpoint to the Aegean winds, this nation has set a steady course for cosmopolitan literary exchange — or at least that’s the…Continue Reading
As the year drew to a close in Germany, so did the long-running speculation about who would pick up the venerable Heyne Verlag, which for years was subject to rumors about an imminent sale to one of the four major players in the country: Bertelsmann, Holtzbrinck, Bonnier, and in the end the winning bidder for…Continue Reading
