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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Search Press and Nosy Crow were both double winners at the Independent Publishers Guild Independent Publishing Awards 2015. Winners of the 13 categories were announced at a gala dinner hosted by author and publisher John Mitchinson at the IPG spring conference last night (5th March). Search... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Joel Richardson has been appointed as publisher at twenty7, the new digital-first adult fiction imprint of Bonnier Publishing. Richardson joins from Quercus, where he held positions including audiobook publisher and editor, where he worked with authors including Joel Dicker and Hester Browne. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Douglas & McIntyre, House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books, Greystone Books, and New Society Publishers will move distribution to the University of Toronto Press beginning in May. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ebury Press is to publish the memoir of Chrissie Hynde, frontwoman of The Pretenders, acquired in a “major deal”. Publisher and deputy m.d. Jake Lingwood bought world English and translation rights, excluding North America, while Gerry Howard, v.p., executive editor at Doubleday, Penguin Random... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Toby Mundy, the founder and former c.e.o. of Atlantic Books, is to become the first director of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction. Meanwhile submission deadlines for publishers will change to “accommodate the timelines and deadlines of the publishing calendar”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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South End Press, Boston-based press that folded last year, has struck a deal to have four of its stranded titles distributed by Duke University Press. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson has appointed a new chief financial officer (c.f.o.) after reporting a sales drop of 4% in 2014. The company has appointed Coram Williams to the role of c.f.o. from Penguin Random House, where he is currently holding the same title. He will start in the job on the 1st August, replacing... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon has hired former White House press secretary Jay Carney as senior v.p. for worldwide corporate affairs. Carney, who served as press secretary for US President Barack Obama for more than three years until 2014, will begin in his new job on Monday, Politico reported. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unnamed Press, a new publishing house based in Los Angeles, started out with a completely different name. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Quarto Group has acquired Lewes-based publisher Ivy Press for £1.3m, as well as taking on £200,000 of debt. Quarto subsidiary Quarto Publishing has entered into a conditional agreement for the purchase of Ivy Press' owner, Lewes Holding Ltd. The acquisition is conditional based on the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Children’s Books has hired Nia Roberts as art director, where she will be responsible for the cross portfolio design strategy. She will also develop the picture book list. Roberts is currently art director at Simon & Schuster where she has worked with authors and illustrators... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster will be reprinting 10,000 copies of revered 'New York Times' critic and columnist David Carr's 2008 memoir following his death last week. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tom Chicken has been appointed as Transworld’s sales director following Sarah Roscoe’s move to sales director for Penguin Random House Children’s. Chicken originally joined Penguin on the graduate business management scheme in 2002, going on to manage field and key account sales teams, as well... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Robson Press has signed the memoir of novelist and screenwriter Frederic Raphael. Publisher Jeremy Robson signed UK and Commonwealth rights to Going Up in a deal with Maggie Phillips at Ed Victor. The book follows Raphael from his schooldays at Charterhouse, through to his time at... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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 ]
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After becoming one of the press' s biggest sellers to date, Andrew Maraniss’s 'Strong Inside' has become the first title from the press to hit two 'New York Times' bestseller lists. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Nation Media Group, the International Press Institute and prominent African journalist Joseph Odindo support The EastAfrican, and say that e ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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'PW' catches up with director Scott Bonner for a wide-ranging talk about life in Ferguson, MO, and the library’s much lauded efforts following the shooting of Michael Brown. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The book business is strong in North Carolina as booksellers in the Tar Heel State come out of the economic downturn that wreaked havoc across the nation starting in 2008. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sam Husain is to retire from his position as c.e.o of Foyles in April after eight years at the helm of the bookseller. Former Hamleys c.o.o. Paul Currie will replace him. Husain will step down on his 68th birthday in April. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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