Connect Books has promoted Rob Moss to managing director of online bookseller Wordery, following the decision of current managing director and founder, Will Jones, to leave the business at the end of May. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with:
#connect books
Penguin Random House UK’s group commercial director, Nigel Waters, is to leave the business at Easter. The company is still working out where Waters’ team will report, and an announcement about some new roles and responsibilities is to follow in the coming weeks, PRH said. Ian Hudson, deputy... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#reluctantly agreed
#ian hudson
#coming weeks
#prh uk
HarperCollins' group digital director Nick Perrett is to leave the publisher later this month. Perrett, who began at HarperCollins in October 2012, will be leaving on 20th February to pursue a new opportunity. Executive children's publisher Ann-Janine Murtagh will now take on day-to-day running... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#digital team
#20th february
#current role
If you've written the book on making comics, what kind of comics do you make? For Scott McCloud, it's an ambitious graphic novel about creativity itself. The post The Guy Who Knows Everything About Comics Finally Made a Graphic Novel appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2015-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#scott mccloud
#ve written
Andrew Thrave, director of education at GL Education Group, has left the company after 10 years. Thrave, who joined when the company was still Granada Learning, and whose role has seen him oversee the company's print and electronic publishing as well as its strategy and partnership development,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#partnership development
#electronic publishing
Anne Enright has been appointed the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. The author receives €150,000 over the three-year term of her Laureateship, during which she will continue her own work as a creative artist, teach creative writing at University College Dublin and New York University, and... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#york university
#anne enright
#irish fiction
Ahead of an appearance at this year’s Changing Media Summit, Anna Jones talks to the Guardian about the future of magazines, Hearst’s role in the run-up to the 2015 general election and why the portrayal of women in Esquire is changingChanging Media Summit 2015 programmeIf a 169-year-old,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#enduring power
#hearst uk
Riccardo Cavallero is to leave the Italian publishing house Mondadori, according to Italian press reports. Cavallero, formerly director general of the trade books division of Mondadori, and c.e.o. of Einaudi, will leave at the end of the month. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#director general
German literary publisher Suhrkamp Verlag has completed a reorganisation it started almost two years ago, with a “stable financial and legal framework” for the publishing house now in place. As part of the changes, Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz, chairman of the board of Suhrkamp, will withdraw from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#legal framework
#supervisory board
TV rights to Jessie Burton’s bestselling novel The Miniaturist (Picador) have been optioned by the company behind the adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. London-based Company Pictures optioned the TV rights in a deal negotiated by Rich Green at ICM Partners on behalf of Juliet Mushens at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#agency group
#juliet mushens
#icm partners
#rich green
#deal negotiated
#wolf hall
#hilary mantel
The artist starts each image by finding an intriguing character, composition, or costume element. The post Trippy Kaleidoscopic Collages Made From Your Favorite Comic Book Heroes appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2015-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Penguin Publishing Group in the US is to shut two of its non-fiction imprints, and bring two further imprints under one leadership structure, as part of a reorganisation which includes two staff departures. Madeline McIntosh, president of the Penguin Publishing Group, told staff about the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#told staff
#madeline mcintosh
#staff departures
#leadership structure
Carol Evans is leaving Working Mother Media after helping to lead the company for more than 35 years. Evans grew WMM from a single magazine—Working Mother, launched in 1978—into a magazine, website, events producer and research institute, along with two companion associations. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#research institute
#events producer
With the public promiscuously hopping from one format to another, reports of the e-reader’s death look distinctly prematureWe have barely stumbled into 2015 and already some commentators are calling time on the ebook. The analysis was provoked by Waterstones’ managing director, James Daunt, who... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-01-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#digital market
#james daunt
#long live
EF Labs takes a colorful page from children's book illustrations for its employee manual.The company employee manual: Just saying those words is enough to lull you into a boredom-induced coma. And the idea of actually reading the content within—likely drier than the paper it's printed on—is... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Thames & Hudson head of publicity Rosalie Macfarlane is leaving the company after nearly six years. Macfarlane, who has been a publishing publicist since 1986, said she was now looking for "a complete change", and will not take up a role with another publisher. However she intends her next... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
In the comic book world, Marvel and DC characters were never destined to meet ... until now. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2014-12-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |
Ingrid Selberg, m.d of Simon & Schuster’s Children’s Division, is to leave the publisher at the end of this month. S&S said Selberg had resigned from her position after 11 years at the company for personal reasons, and that a replacement was being sought. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#personal reasons
#simon schuster
#ingrid selberg
Clare Reihill is leaving her role as editorial director of Fourth Estate after more than 10 years with the publisher. Reihill leaves to work full time at the T S Eliot estate, where she has served as a trustee for for several years. After starting at Fourth Estate in 2003, Reihill has worked... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-12-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | All news stories tagged with:
#harpercollins imprint
#nicola barker
#amy tan
#fourth estate
#clare reihill