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At Bloomsbury, Rachel Mannheimer has been promoted to editor, and Melanie Sankel has gone from associate director of sales for Fairchild Books to director, adoption sales at Bloomsbury Academic. After...

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Brendan Cahill has returned to traditional publishing, joining Random House, Inc. as vp, corporate projects. The company says he "will be working with departments across the company on a variety of...

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Awards and More

Benjamin Alire Saenz, 58, became the first Latino writer to win the PEN/Faulkner Fiction Prize on Saturday, for EVERYTHING BEGINS AND ENDS AT THE KENTUCKY CLUB. Published by Cinco Puntos, it's a...

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Joe Perez has joined the Random House Publishing Group as senior art director. Previously he was art director at Portfolio. At Atheneum, Emma Ledbetter has been promoted to assistant editor. Kerri...

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People, Awards, Etc.

Wiley has hired John Kritzmacher as evp, chief financial officer, starting July 1. Current cfo and chief operations officer Ellis Cousens, who previously announced his retirement at the end of fiscal...

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People, Etc.: Levesque, Gersh + Diversion, Lehrer Returns?

Jennifer Levesque will join Rodale Books on June 17 as editorial director, reporting to Mary Ann Naples. Previously Levesque was editorial director of adult trade books at Abrams. "Over the past 20...

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People, Etc.

Phoebe Yeh will join Random House Children's Books as vp, Publisher, Crown Books for Young Readers on June 21, reporting to Barbara Marcus. Yeh was most recently editorial director at HarperCollins...

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Editor-in-chief at School Library Journal Rebecca Miller has been promoted to editorial director of Library Journals, with added responsibility of LJ as well.  Current editor-in-chief of LJ Michael...

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Beth Lamb will join Vintage/Anchor on June 19 in the newly created position of vp, associate publisher, reporting to Anne Messitte. Previously she was associate publisher, trade books at Rodale....

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Senior marketing manager at Grove/Atlantic and Mysterious Press Jason Pinter will leave the company on July 19 to launch Polis Books, a digital publishing startup focusing on new and backlist fiction...

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Barnes & Noble Increases Historical Earnings, Pays Lynch Severance, and...

Barnes & Noble filed restated historical financial statements with the SEC after concluding that they had "overstated certain accruals for the periods prior to April 27, 2013, as a result of...

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Briefs: More Funding for Open Road; Commonwealth Book Prize Discontinued; And...

Open Road Integrated Media announced it has received $11 million in Series C funding led by private equity group NewSpring Capital (whose technology fund NewSpring Growth Capital III supplied $8...

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People, Etc.: Elmore Leonard Dies, and More

Elmore Leonard, 87, author of more than 40 novels who helped redefine the crime genre over the past four decades, died Tuesday morning at his home outside of Detroit from complications of a stroke he...

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Briefs: On Aiken, Black, and More

The Authors Guild announced that longtime executive director Paul Aiken, 54, was diagnosed with early-stage ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). Aiken is currently in remission of symptoms due to steroid...

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Bigger and Broader, Digital Book World 2014

The big fifth annual Digital Book World Conference has officially opened for registration, convening at the Sheraton Hotel in New York City January 13 - 15, 2014. DBW now stands alone as largest book...

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Goodreads Creates Controversy

Goodreads has attracted considerable attention -- and controversy -- for recent moves to limit readers and authors attacking each other on their site. In simplest form, Goodreads is getting stricter...

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Amazon Announces Third Line of Kindle Fires

Amazon announced their updated line of third-generation Kindle Fire tablets early Wednesday, continuing to expand the basic specs, content features and other extras. Now called Kindle Fire HDX, they...

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At Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Andrew Smith has been promoted to svp, deputy publisher, executive director of New Business Development, focusing on building the company's licensing program...

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Penguin Random House has formed a cross-company audio group in the US. Amanda D'Acierno will run the group as svp, publisher, Penguin Random House Audio, Fodor's, and Living Language. Patti Pirooz is...

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Melina Gerosa Bellows has been promoted to publisher of National Geographic Books, adding responsibility for sales, marketing and distribution to her current role as National Geographic's chief...

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