Bloomsbury appoints Derek Stordahl

Bloomsbury has appointed Derek Stordahl to the newly created role of head of sales, Americas.... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-17 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Rowan Yapp joins Bloomsbury after a decade at Vintage

Rowan Yapp will join Bloomsbury as publishing director to run the cookery and illustrated non-fiction lists after more than a decade at Vintage. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-09 14:28:13 UTC ]
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B&NE Appoints Financial Adviser

Barnes & Noble Education hired Morgan Stanley to serve as its financial adviser as it looks for ways to increase shareholder value in a fast-changing college material market. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-01-09 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Informa Moves to Replace Longtime Chairman Derek Mapp

Informa plc announced Tuesday that it has begun the process of replacing Derek Mapp, chairman of the London-based B2B publisher and exhibitions giant since 2008, with a successor expected to be installed by the end of the year. Mapp first joined Informa's board as a non-executive director in... Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2020-01-08 19:41:38 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury pre-empts Lisa Harding's 'beautiful' portrait of addiction

Bloomsbury has pre-empted Lisa Harding’s second novel about a failed actress struggling with motherhood and addiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-01-07 02:13:45 UTC ]
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Maria Strong Appointed Acting Register of Copyrights

Strong will step in while a permanent replacement is sought for Register of Copyrights Karyn Temple, who announced last week that she is leaving the Copyright Office to accept a new position at the Motion Picture Association. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-18 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Audible Appoints New CEO

Audible founder Don Katz will turn over the position of CEO to former IDG and Dun & Bradstreet executive Bob Carrigan on January 2. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2019-12-17 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury wins five-way auction for 'modern masculinity manifesto'

Bloomsbury Continuum has won a five-way bidding war for a “manifesto for modern masculinity” by Book of Man founder Martin Robinson. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-15 15:29:43 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury buys Oberon Books in £1.2m deal

Bloomsbury has bought London-based theatre publisher Oberon Books in a £1.2m deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-10 04:13:11 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury scoops McMullan’s debut novel

Bloomsbury will publish journalist Thomas McMullan’s debut novel The Last Good Man in November 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-03 21:48:31 UTC ]
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Ben Bailey Smith's three middle-grade books go to Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Children’s Books has acquired three "game-changing" middle-grade books by Ben Bailey Smith. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-02 18:08:52 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury enters China's domestic market

Bloomsbury is entering China’s domestic market in a joint venture with state-owned China Youth Publishing Group (CYPG) and its subsidiary Roaring Lion Media (RLM). Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-01 13:35:55 UTC ]
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Idris Elba snares Derek Owusu's book for film and TV

Idris Elba's production company Green Door Pictures has secured film and TV rights to #Merky Books' forthcoming title Teaching My Brother To Read by Derek Owusu. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-25 07:05:06 UTC ]
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MoneySuperMarket’s Maitra appointed HUK communications director

Doyel Maitra has been appointed Clare Harington’s replacement as Hachette UK’s new group communications director from March 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-21 16:56:32 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury to sell Whitaker’s Almanack

Bloomsbury is selling reference guide Whitaker’s assets, including the current edition, the online database, and backlist editions dating back to 1869. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-19 07:38:43 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury to publish Henry Scowcroft's memoir

A memoir billed as a "popular-science detective story" by science writer Henry Scowcroft has gone to Bloomsbury imprint Green Tree, focusing on his fiancée’s experience of advanced bladder cancer. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-12 03:00:09 UTC ]
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Arifa Akbar appointed as the Guardian’s chief theatre critic

Katharine Viner congratulates ‘wonderful’ arts writer who is already a vital contributor to the paperArifa Akbar has been appointed as the Guardian’s chief theatre critic. Akbar, who will take up the role in the new year, said she was “honoured, utterly thrilled and immensely excited” by the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2019-11-08 10:52:21 UTC ]
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#Merky Books to expand as Lindsay-Prince appointed commissioning editor

Stormzy’s Penguin Random House imprint is set to expand, with Lemara Lindsay-Prince appointed to the newly created role of commissioning editor for #Merky Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-25 01:15:20 UTC ]
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PRH appoints Chantal Noel as group rights director

Chantal Noel has been appointed group rights director for Penguin Random House UK, after 11 years as rights director for Penguin. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-23 20:57:31 UTC ]
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Frahm's take on rise and fall of Assyria goes to Bloomsbury

​Bloomsbury has signed a book from Yale professor Eckhart Frahm for the first comprehensive non-fiction account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world’s very first empire: Assyria. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-23 07:38:23 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Kids bags diverse series trio

Bloomsbury Children’s has made three acquisitions centred around diversity which will "up-end the content stereotypes of series for young readers". Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 18:04:27 UTC ]
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