Simon & Schuster has created a director of global digital and online sales role based in the US to apply a global approach to sales and marketing across its businesses worldwide. Colin Shields, who headed up the publishers’ digital sales, has been promoted to the newly created position of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frankfurt Book Fair and the World Cookbook Fair have entered into a long term agreement to work together to bring publishers and authors in the culinary sector to Frankfurt in 2015. Juergen Boos, director of FBF, and Edouard Cointreau, vice president of the World Cookbook Fair, signed the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sensing the changing tides in the industry, iPad magazine designer Joe Zeff is bringing his talents to the enterprise world.You may not have heard of Joe Zeff before, but if you've picked up an iPad edition of PC Magazine, Fast Company (full disclosure!), or Time's 9/11 memorial, you've likely... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2014-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
As the gulf between Amazon and Hachette widens in their publisher-versus-retailer heavyweight fight, frustrated authors caught in the middle have begun to weigh in—some in better spirits than others. In the spoof video above, Outliers author Malcolm Gladwell meets with Amazon's vice president of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2014-07-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Online audiences are oohing and ahhing over Netflix's New York Times branded content on women inmates, tied to the hit series Orange Is the New Black. While this is one of the first pieces created out of the Grey Lady's T Brand Studio, Netflix isn't new to the native advertising. And a source... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst Magazine Digital Media has named Lee Sosin as senior vice president. He was formerly the vice president of strategic solutions for Yahoo!. Peter van Roden has been appointed as senior vice president of global experiences and events at the National Geographic Society. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Suzy Draddy Jacobs has been named publisher of Capitol File magazine. Most recently, Jacobs served as vice president of the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast region for The Week. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hearst Magazines Digital Media has appointed Tom Kirwan to the new role of vice president, national sales and key accounts. Kirwan was previously vice president of digital sales for Time Inc. Branded Solutions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury executive director Richard Charkin has been selected as the vice president of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kate DiCamillo and David Levithan were among the 10 authors who made the first-ever long-list of finalists for the National Book Awards, part of a new nominating process that prize organizers hope will lead to increased attention and sales.Ms. DiCamillo and Mr. Levithan were nominees in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2013-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Malcolm Campbell has been hired as vice president of business development at The FADER. Previously he had worked for more than five years as publisher at Spin Media. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2013-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
The romance with the printed word shows no signs of abating. Despite the rapid growth in ebook sales in recent years, print book output in 2011 grew by 6%, to 347,178 titles, compared to the prior year. The preliminary numbers released Tuesday by bibliographic database Bowker are "the most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Today, Hearst Magazines announced that two new senior executives would be joining its U.S. magazine division. Debi Chirichella, former chief operating officer at Condé Nast Digital, will join as senior vice president, chief financial officer; while Grant Whitmore, former chief operating officer... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2011-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Mon, 26/09/2011 - 08:50 Oxford University Press has appointed Casper Grathwohl to the newly-created role of senior vice-president, group strategy. Grathwohl, who is currently vice president of reference and digital publishing within OUP's... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Embattled media companies Yahoo and Gannett are getting even cozier. Facing revenue declines, the Internet giant and the countrys biggest newspaper publisher are hoping they can boost their bottom lines with an expanded local advertising partnership. The companies initially launched a tie-in... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 10/08/2011 - 10:39 Marcella Berger is retiring from Simon & Schuster US from her position as vice president, director of subsidiary rights, after 35 years with the publisher. Among the titles and authors Berger sold rights to are journalist... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 05/08/2011 - 08:20 Borders US has "terminated" the employment of its president Michael J Edwards and executive vice president and chief financial officer Scott D Henry. The company's senior vice president, restructuring, Holly Felder Etlin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Social reading app Flipboard has struck a deal with Condé Nast to display full-page ads in several of the publishers titles. Starting today, readers of the New Yorker on Flipboards iPad app will begin seeing branded content from American Express throughout the virtual magazine. In October, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Mon, 04/07/2011 - 12:29 Amazon.com has reached an agreement to acquire The Book Depository, the fast-growing online retailer founded by Andrew Crawford in 2004. Greg Greeley, Amazon's vice president of European Retail, said: "Customers in more... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-07-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Maybe Apple isnt so untouchable after all. The device maker, which has been locked in a battle with publishers, made a surprise concession recently, dropping a pricing requirement for its App Store that irked publishers. Before, publishers couldn't undercut the subscription price they offered... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]