While Editorial Director of Amazon Publishing, Julia Cheiffetz had a baby and got cancer, only to have her insurance cancelled and her responsibilities cut. The post Amazon+Baby+Cancer+Book Editor = Epic Fail appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2015-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing may have scaled back its plans to have a major New York City trade publishing presence since the departure of Larry Kirshbaum in early 2014, but the company still continues to expand its overall operation. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing has acquired three books by Leigh Russell, who has previously been published by independent No Exit Press. Russell’s Journey to Death and two further titles will be published by Thomas & Mercer, Amazon Publishing’s crime imprint. Senior editor Emilie Marneur bought world... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing has expanded into France, internally hiring Clément Monjou, formerly of its Kindle and Appstore units. The development of Amazon Publishing Europe has already seen the e-commerce giant set up publishing arms in the UK and Germany, while it has also advertised for positions in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Edwards and Louise Voss have signed another deal with Amazon’s Thomas & Mercer imprint. Emilie Marneur, senior acquisitions editor for Amazon Publishing, signed world rights to a new crime novel by the co-writing pair and a solo thriller by Mark Edwards through agent Sam Copeland of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-03-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has won a six-figure auction for Dark Matter by Blake Crouch, an author previously published by Amazon Publishing. Editorial director Julie Crisp acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to the book from Alexis Hurley at Inkwell Managements, after seeing a 140-page partial. The book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon senior v-p Russ Grandinetti was genial and a bit elusive while fielding questions on author discontent and Amazon Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing plans to grow its list of UK titles and authors “substantially” in 2015, Eoin Purcell, UK head of Amazon Publishing, has told The Bookseller. The publisher is also “constantly looking to create new platforms to connect authors and readers”, Purcell said. Amazon Publishing UK,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Daphne Durham, publisher of adult trade and children's at Amazon Publishing, will be leaving the company on January 16, and will be succeeded by Mikyla Bruder, current head of global marketing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Patricia Cornwell has released an essay as a Kindle Single via Amazon Publishing’s crime imprint Thomas & Mercer. Chasing the Ripper, which costs 99p on the Kindle store, documents her investigation of Jack the Ripper for her 2002 book Portrait of a Killer (Little, Brown). In the book... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing has released an essay by bestselling author Patricia Cornwell, which documents her investigation of Jack the Ripper for her 2002 title, 'Portrait of a Killer.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
AmazonCrossing, the translation imprint of Amazon Publishing, announced a commitment to publish Finnish crime fiction in English through 2015. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dominic Myers, previously managing director of Waterstones in the U.K., became head of Amazon Publishing in Europe effective September 22. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing's Thomas & Mercer imprint has acquired the first solo thriller by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing and Alloy Entertainment have partnered on a new digital-first imprint called Alloy Entertainment. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing in the US has partnered with Alloy Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros, to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jet City Comics, Amazon Publishing’s graphic novel and comics imprint, has released the cover art for the first three issues of "Wool: The Graphic Novel," the comics adaptation of author Hugh Howey’s bestselling, self-published science-fiction novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
On the heels of last week's announcement about its new German-language publishing program, Amazon has said, in an internal memo from Jeff Belle, that the company plans to hire 70 more staffers for its publishing programs. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-03-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon Publishing is launching a German language programme, after being "delighted"... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Catherine Ryan Hyde has written 24 novels, most of them published by Big Five houses. One of her works, Pay It Forward (S&S, 1999), was adapted into a (fairly successful) Hollywood film. She’s been invited to the White House to talk about her writing. More recently, she’s dabbled in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]