Tag Archives: Scholastic

People Round Up, Early March, 2024

PEOPLE Co-Founders Madeline McIntosh, Nina von Moltke and Don Weisberg announced the launch of Authors Equity, a new collaborative book publisher.  McIntosh holds the title of CEO and Publisher, von Moltke is President and Weisberg is Senior Advisor. In addition Robin Desser has been named Editorial Advisor,  Carly Gorga is Chief Marketing Officer and Andrea…Continue Reading

People Round Up, Mid-December, 2023

Happy Holidays from the Editors  PEOPLE At Simon & Schuster, Judy Clain will be joining on January 16 as SVP and publisher of the relaunched Summit Books Imprint, reporting to CEO Jonathan Karp. She had been with Little, Brown & Company since 2011. Avery editor-in-chief Caroline Sutton has left Penguin Random House and will join…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Early December 2023

PEOPLE Marcus Leaver has announced the launch of his new company, Gemini Books Group. Gemini has acquired Imagine That!, Palazzo Editions, Ad Lib Publishers, Mardel Books, and Pimpernel Press. He previously was the CEO of The Quarto Group until 2018 and the co-founder of Welbeck Publishing Group until late 2022 where it was then sold…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid November 2023

PEOPLE Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch, is transitioning to the role of Chairman, and will be succeeded by Hachette UK CEO, David Shelley, who will take on both HBG and HUK roles.  Richard Kiston, deputy CEO of Hachette UK, will be taking on the same role for Hachette Book Group. COO Joe Mangan has…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Early November 2023

PEOPLE At Penguin Random House,  Roseanne Serra, VP and director of art and design and Paul Buckley, senior VP and executive creative designer have left Penguin Publishing Group. Sabrina Papas has joined Penguin Random House Canada as marketing and publicity coordinator. Alex Lu has joined Random House Children’s Books as editor for Random House Graphic,…Continue Reading

Top 5 Publishing Articles/Blog Posts of the Week 10/16- 10/20

Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. How will Simon & Schuster be affected by the sale to KKR?  Is Scholastic enabling book bans?  Why…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-August 2023

PEOPLE At Twelve, Publisher Sean Desmond has left the company and will join HarperCollins as VP, executive editor in September. The news came in a memo from HCCB President and Publisher, Suzanne Murphy. EVP, operations at HarperCollins, Larry Nevins, has decided to retire at the end of the year after 22 years at the company. …Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-July 2023

PEOPLE The National Coalition Against Censorship has named Lee Rowland, currently policy director at the New York Civil Liberties Union, to replace the retiring Christopher Finan as its executive director.  At Penguin Young Readers, VP, executive director, art & design Deborah Kaplan will retire in September. She has been at PYR for 31 years and…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-April 2023

PEOPLE At Penguin Random House, Carisa Hays will be leaving her role as publicity director. Following the retirements of Subsidiary Rights VP Leigh Butler and VPHal Fessenden, Tom Dussel will lead the team in the new role of VP, director, subrights, reporting to Allison Dobson at Penguin Publishing Group. Sabila Khan will lead the foreign…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Early April 2023

PEOPLE At Open Road Integrated Media, Robert Zaffiris has been named CFO/COO, succeeding Charles Gallagher. Zaffiris was previously DFO/COO, Consumer and Technology Group at HarperCollins. ReedPop President Lance Festerman is leaving the company. He was a former director of BookExpo America and New York Comic Con. At Macmillan, joins as VP of Strategy and Investments….Continue Reading