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 Bob Woodward's books from The Final Days onwards, Good as Gold by Joseph Heller, Chronicles by Bob Dylan, Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Living History by Hilary Clinton and Contact by Carl Sagan. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2011-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Malcolm Margolin, founder of Berkeley-based Heyday Books, will step down on December 31 after 41 years. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-10-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sydney Davies, the Booksellers Association’s head of trade and industry, is retiring after 26 years. The BA has appointed Giles Clifton, a non-practising barrister, to the new role of head of corporate affairs following his departure. Clifton will begin in October and focus on lobbying for the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Random House’s group UK sales director Garry Prior is to retire at the end of the year. Prior has worked for Penguin Random House companies for 35 years, starting his career in publishing in 1980 as a marketing assistant at Transworld’s Corgi Books. During the 1980s he moved between... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jean-Luc Morel, sales manager for Penguin in France, is to retire from the company after 25 years. Morel’s last day will be 22nd September. In the coming weeks he will hand his work over to existing members of the Penguin Random House international sales team: Pauline Konink, sales manager for... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The long-time executive director of one of the country's largest regional trade associations will retire prior to the Fall Discovery Show in mid-October. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Meredith Corp. said Gayle Butler, who helped expand the magazine’s digital reach, would be replaced by Stephen Orr, the executive editor at Conde Nast Traveler. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2015-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bantam Press publishing director Sally Gaminara is to retire this year. Gaminara’s publishing career has spanned nearly 40 years, and she joined Transworld’s Corgi imprint in 1987 from Penguin Books. She moved to the Doubleday team in 1989, where she published Prince Charles' book, A Vision of... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The retirement of David Young and an expansion of the role of David Shelley are among a number of significant moves announced today by Hachette UK. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dominic Knight, Palgrave chairman and executive director of change programmes at Macmillan Science and Education, is to retire at the end of 2015 after 38 years with the company. The news has emerged hard on the heels of completion of the merger between the bulk of Macmillan Science and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Steve Smith will be retiring, due to medical reasons, as of June 1. The company's board has elected current executive v-p and COO Mark Allin as his successor. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Linda Evans, senior editorial director at Transworld, is to retire in April after 23 years with the company. Transworld publisher, Bill Scott-Kerr, paid tribute to her in a message to the company in which he called her “wonderful” and “redoubtable”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After 50 years in book publishing, Ted Heinecken, who started his career in 1963 as a Midwest sales rep for Oxford University Press, will retire from Fuji Associates on February 28. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Anne Louise Fisher is to retire from the scouting business she founded just over 30 years ago. Catherine Eccles, who has worked alongside Fisher at Anne Louise Fisher Associates for the past nine years, will take over the company with immediate effect. The firm, set up in April 1983, will be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Barnes & Noble’s retail c.e.o Mitchell Klipper is to retire from the role in May after 28 years at the company. Klipper will step down as the chief executive of the Retail Group at the end of Barnes & Noble’s fiscal year, but will act as a special advisor on real estate and other... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mitchell Klipper, who during his 28-year career at Barnes & Noble oversaw many of the company’s store initiatives, including its launch of superstores, will retire May 2. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At Hachette Book Group, Tom Maciag, executive v-p and chief financial officer, and Gerry Cummings, senior v-p for distribution, will be retiring in the coming months. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Peter Booth Wiley, chairman of the board of John Wiley & Sons, plans to retire as chair at the end of his current term in September 2015. Matthew S. Kissner has been recommended to succeed him. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Susan Reich has announced that she will be retiring as president of Publishers Group West, the distribution arm of Perseus Books Group, effective March 31, 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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