(Bloomberg) - Barnes & Noble Inc. named former cable television executive Michael Huseby chief financial officer as the largest U.S. bookstore chain shifts toward becoming more of a technology company. Mr. Huseby, formerly chief financial officer at Cablevision Systems Corp., will oversee Barnes & Noble's capital structure and help boost its digital business, the New York-based company said Monday in a statement. Mr. Huseby replaces Joseph Lombardi, who resigned in October. Allen Lindstrom had been CFO on an interim basis. While Barnes & Noble operates about 700 retail locations and more than 600 college bookstores, its future growth lies in electronic books. The company started its digital business in 2009 by selling ebooks and releasing the Nook e-reader. The company projects the Nook business to generate $1.5 billion in sales in the fiscal year ending April 30, accounting for about 20% of its total revenue. The retailer sells the second most ebooks in the U.S. after Amazon.com Inc. Barnes & Noble has had to sacrifice profits by spending on developing devices, advertising and building boutiques in stores to showcase the Nook. It posted a net loss of $70.6 million in the 12 months through January. The losses and concern that the retailer won't be able to maintain spending to compete with Amazon and Apple Inc., which sells ebooks through devices such as the iPad, has weighed on shares. Barnes & Noble has declined 7.5% this year through March 9, when it... Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
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Helen Garnons-Williams is leaving HarperCollins to join Penguin General as publishing director for Fig Tree. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-22 14:02:50 UTC ]
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Elsevier and Reed Exhibitions owner RELX has appointed former Sage PLC c.e.o. Paul Walker as chair to succeed Sir Anthony Habgood. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-22 13:56:02 UTC ]
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Oxford University Press has appointed Lisa Attenborough as its new group communications director. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-02 03:02:21 UTC ]
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The storied culinary media brand lands a, well, seasoned publishing pro at a critical juncture. Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2020-08-27 17:16:47 UTC ]
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Boldwood Books is marking its first birthday with three new authors and two extra team members, including the arrival of Emily Ruston as editorial director. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-28 19:18:14 UTC ]
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Carcanet Press has appointed Irish poet John McAuliffe associate publisher, for a period of six months. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-28 13:40:05 UTC ]
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Costa Award-winning author Christie Watson, who worked a registered nurse for 20 years before her writing career, has been appointed professor of medical and health humanities at the University of East Anglia (UEA). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-27 23:05:45 UTC ]
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Wayne State University Press, which endured three weeks of internal chaos in February after three senior employees were fired but later reinstated, announced that Stephanie Williams has been appointed director. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-07-08 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Katie Bond is departing her role as publisher at the National Trust to become publisher at The Quarto Group's Aurum imprint. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-02 20:04:25 UTC ]
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As the delayed 2020 Digital Content NewFronts finally arrive today in their new virtual format, Adweek assembled its annual NewFronts roundtable to discuss this wild year. Several industry execs weighed in on many of the marketplace's biggest issues going into NewFronts, including Jim Keller, vp... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2020-06-22 12:41:43 UTC ]
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Welbeck has appointed Kim Brown, formerly of Parragon Books, as vice president of sales and marketing for North America. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-18 18:08:56 UTC ]
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Samira Nasr, a former Vanity Fair fashion director, is leaving Condé Nast to take a key job at Hearst Magazines. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2020-06-10 01:35:04 UTC ]
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Independent press Broken Sleep Books is to appoint an editorial board, in a move that expands the company. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-03 22:08:53 UTC ]
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Alex Beecroft, formerly HarperCollins UK’s director of corporate development, has been appointed m.d. of Collins Learning. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-01 04:28:42 UTC ]
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Gunn, who will remain as editor of the Weekend Australian, began her career as a cadet journalist at the News Corp titleThe weekday Australian has appointed its first female editor in its 56-year history in Michelle Gunn, the editor of the Weekend Australian since 2012.Editor John Lehmann is... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-05-15 05:41:11 UTC ]
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News Corp announced today the appointment of Almar Latour as the new Chief Executive Officer of Dow Jones and Publisher Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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Pan Macmillan sales and brand director Anna Bond is leaving the publisher after 17 years to join Hachette UK as managing director of Octopus Publishing Group. She replaces current Octopus chief Alison Goff who is stepping down later this year after 21 years with the company. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-15 11:53:12 UTC ]
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Diamond Distributors founder Steve Geppi outlined the terms under which the distributor of comics, graphic novels, and prose books would resume payments to publishers and other vendors. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-04-07 04:00:00 UTC ]
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DK c.e.o. Ian Hudson is leaving the firm after three-and-a-half years at the helm, with Carsten Coesfeld appointed as his successor. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-03 05:39:52 UTC ]
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Jenny Ridout has been appointed the new managing director of Bloomsbury's Non-Consumer division. She succeeds Jonathan Glasspool, whose imminent retirement in July after 20 years with the publisher was announced last year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-28 05:26:28 UTC ]
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