PEOPLE Gene Brissie, previously Editor in Chief at Prentice Hall Trade Publishing, has left to become a partner with Bert Holtje in the James Peter Associates Literary Agency. . . . Some changes in the S&S group: BJ Gabriel has been named VP National Accounts, with responsibility for sales of all S&S products, including adult…Continue Reading
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Vault.com is a web site used by job seekers to get the lowdown on what it’s really like to work for a company — in full, unexpurgated, and unsubstantiated glory. Many publishers aren’t even listed, including the entire Holtzbrinck group, while Norton gets little traffic and virtually no messages. Same with S&S, which has had…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Much news in the beginning of this year: Long anticipated, and widely reported (in some places, more than once), Sarah Crichton is out and Michael Pietsch is in at Little, Brown. In other TWP news, Time Life Books is closing and Neil Levin is heading the new group (down to a dozen or so…Continue Reading
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Tagged A Common Reader, American Greetings, Avalon, Baker & Taylor, Bantam, Barnes & Noble, Barnes & Noble Digital, Barrie Hitchon, Bell Sports, Bertelsmann, Beth Eller, Borders, Brian Murray, Broadway Books, Candy Lee, Carol Berkin, Carolyn Reidy, CDS, Chris Anderson, Chris McKenney, Constance Sayre, Craig Copetas, Craig Richards, Crown, Daedalus Books, Dan Green, David Fickling, David Lappin, Deborah Brodie, Deborah Raffin, Delacorte, Denny Hatch, Digital Pond, Dove Audio, ebrary, First Generations, Gary Rautenstrauch, Gilbert Perlman, Harcourt, Harmony, HarperCollins, Hill & Wang, Hyperion Children's, Ingram, Inside.com, Jane Isay, Jeanne Finestone, Jon Karp, Judith Curr, Judy Korman, Jupiter, Kaplan, Kate Jackson, Katherine Tegen, Katie Hall, Kay Lee Davis, Kit van Tulleken, Larry Ashmead, Larry Kirshbaum, Laura Nolan, Little Brown, Louis Baum, Marc Rich, Market Partners International, Maureen Egen, McClanahan Publishing, McGraw-Hill, Michael Ovitz, Michael Pietsch, Michael Viner, Mike Winton, Millbrook, Mitchell Beazley, Neil Levin, New Millennium Worldwide, North-South, Octopus Groups, Olga Vezeriz, Paul McLaughlin, Peter Dubuisson, Peterson Magazines, PGI, Pocket Books, PRI, Publishers Group West, Publishers Weekly, Random House, Rebecca Strong, Richard Willis, Rodale Trade Books, Rosamund Pilcher, S&S, Sarah Crichton, Scholastic UK, Scribner, Shaye Areheart, Simon Boughton, Simonne Waud, Steve Black, Susan Massey, Susan Reich, The Free Press, Therese Burke, Time Warner Press, Time-Life Books, Tom Dunne, Tom Haworth, Tom Turvey, Troll Communications, Two-Can Publishing, Viking, Wendy Lamb, YS Chi
PEOPLE Two Random House appointments: Beryl Needham, previously Dir. of Marketing for Little, Brown, has been named VP Dir. of National Accts. Children’s Books. And Adene Corns has been named VP Dir. of clubs and AMS. She was previously at S&S. Corns comes to Random with her full team . . . After 21 years…Continue Reading
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The Latest Truism: A Good Publicist Is Hard to Find Judging by reports of empty cubicles in publicity departments at several large publishing houses, it seems the latest truism in the book biz is this: a good publicist is hard to find. While entry-level publicity jobs have always had precipitous burn-out rates, it seems that…Continue Reading
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Frankfurt Forecast St. Martin’s ‘Starting Over,’ Harcourt’s ‘Algorithm,’ Plus Hansel and Gretel in Germany When the Buchmesse opens its doors on October 18, what are Sub. Rights Directors planning to pull out of their book bags as they cozy up to editors from Europe and beyond? Herewith, a sampling from some of the major players:…Continue Reading
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Tagged A Hole in the Universe, A Man's Journey to Simple Abundance, Albert Speer, Alice Randall, Amelie Nothomb, Amir Aczel, An Ocean Apart, Aristotle's Children, Benedict Spinoza, Bob Woodward, Brenda Segel, Carol Higgins Clark, Daniel Schacter, Dava Sobel, Deck the Halls, Don Brownlee, Ecco Press, Eminem, Eric Lax, fen Montaigne, Fermat's Last Theorem, Fred Reiken, Frederic Beigheder, Free Press, Frida Strindberg, Gail Tsukiyama, George V. Higgins, Harcourt, HarperCollins, Harvey Seifter, Houghton Mifflin, Ian Tattersall, Jack Lemmon, Jack Macrae, Jacquelyn Mitchard, James Brady, Jane Goodall, Jimmy Carter, Just for Fun, K.C. Cole, Kathy Reich, Kissinger, Linus Torvalds, Lost Legends of New Jersey, Lynn Schooler, Mark Beckoff, Mark Danner, Mary Higgins Clark, Metropolitan Book, Miramax, My Father's Daughter, New Directions, Oliver Sacks, On The Night Plain, Peter Duffy, Peter Economy, Peter Ward, Richard Rubenstein, Robin Pilcher, S&S, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Scott Ventrella, Scribner, St. Martin's, Stan Williams, Starting Over, Stephen Ambrose, Stephen Cannell, Surviving Galeras, The Advent of the Algorithm, The Artist's Wife, The Blue Bear, The Brothers Bielsky, The Ends of the World, The Mold in Dr. Florey's Coat, The Monkey in the Mirror, The New Yorker, The Power of Positive Thinking in Business, The Riddle of the Compass, The Seven Sins of Memory, The Tin Collector, The Wind Done Gone, Times Books, Tina Sinatra, Warning of the War
PEOPLE Rosanna Hansen has been named SVP, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Weekly Reader Corp. She left Reader’s Digest Children’s last month. . . Liz Maguire is leaving Free Press for Basic, where she will be Associate Publisher, Editorial Director. . . Since Abrams bought STC and Smithmark, there have been several casualties, including SVP Director…Continue Reading
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PEOPLE Kristina Peterson leaves Random Children’s to take over as President of S&S’s Children’s division. . . . Meanwhile Vivian Antonangeli has left Reader’s Digest Children’s, following the arrival of Harold Clarke — previously President of RH — as VP Publisher New Market Development for Global Books and Home Entertainment. Antonangeli, who had been GM…Continue Reading
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PEOPLE Mark Pattis, who had been CEO of Tribune Education, but left in March, right before the division was put on the market (it was just sold to McGraw–Hill), has become an investor. He is a partner in Next Chapter Holdings, a company that invests in a number of areas, including books, magazines, and digital…Continue Reading
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