Tag Archives: WME

People Round-Up, Early June 2023

PEOPLE Sasha Quinton has been named EVP and president of Scholastic’s School Reading Events, the newly formed division that combines the book fairs and book clubs businesses.  Emily Graff has joined Simon Element/Marysue Rucci Books as executive editor. She was previously senior editor at HarperCollins.   Onalee Duane has joined as a demand planning analyst, backlist…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-September 2022

PEOPLE Jeff Mathews joins Scholastic as EVP, Corporate Development and Investor Relations. Previously he was Managing Partner at Gagnier Communications. At Timber Press, VP and Publisher Andrew Beckman will retire effective December 16. He will be succeeded by Kathryn Juergens, presently Associate Publisher and Director of Marketing and Publicity. Jennifer Benka is departing her position…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Early September 2022

PEOPLE At Scribd, Ariana Hellebuyck joins in the newly-created role of Chief Marketing Officer. Most recently she was VP, Marketing at Life360. At HarperCollins, Abby West joins Amistad as VP and Editorial Director on September 12. Previously she was Director of Inclusive Content Programming at Audible. At HarperCollins Children’s Books, Katie Boni, formerly Publicist at…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-April 2022

PEOPLE Paula Amendolara joins Sourcebooks as SVP of Sales. She was most recently VP and Director of Sales, National Accounts at Simon & Schuster. At Sourcebooks Fire, Karen Masnica joins as Associate Director of Marketing & Publicity; she was previously Senior Marketing Manager at Simon & Schuster. At Diamond Book Distributors, Rich Johnson joins as…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-September 2017

PEOPLE Mark Warren has joined Random House as VP, Executive Editor. He was previously Editor at Esquire for two decades and is the coauthor of former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s memoir, The Good Fight. At WaterBrook & Multnomah, Helen Macdonald has joined as Production Editor. Jim Dassise has left his role as West Coast…Continue Reading

Our Ebooks, Ourselves: What’s Happening with Our Ereader Data?

In October of last year, news broke on The Digital Reader that Adobe Digital Editions was taking a significant amount of user data and sending it back to their servers. Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) is a program that allows readers to put ebooks onto their reading devices from retailers and libraries alike. The program’s terms…Continue Reading