North America

Ballantine
Anika Streitfeld will join Ballantine as senior editor in the beginning of August, primarily acquiring fiction.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

Doubleday
Bill Barry is returning to take the new post of publisher of Doubleday Religion, starting August 1.
(Publishers Lunch)

F&W Publications
F&W Publications, which has been on the block since late winter, has been acquired by Abry Partners, a private equity firm based in Boston.
(Publishers Weekly)

The Gernert Company
Former managing director of the William Morris Agency’s UK office Stephanie Cabot will join The Gernert Company next week.
(Publishers Lunch)

Harper
Kathy Schneider will be associate publisher of the Harper imprint.
(Publishers Lunch)

Houghton Mifflin
Has promoted associate publisher of children’s imprint Clarion Books Dinah Stevenson to publisher.
(Publishers Lunch)

MacAdam/Cage
Editor-in-chief Pat Walsh is leaving, after seven years at the publisher.
(Publishers Lunch)

Meredith Interactive
Lauren Wiener has been promoted to vice president.
(Publishers Weekly)

Scholastic
Suzanne Murphy will move to Scholastic July 7 as vice president of trade marketing. Jennifer Pasanen will become vp of franchise management for trade publishing.
(Publishers Weekly)

Simon & Schuster
At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Justin Chanda his been hired as executive editor. Emily Thomas has been promoted to senior editor and Alexandra Cooper to associate editor; Kristin McGowan has advanced to associate marketing director, advertising and Sonia Chaghatzbanian to associate art director for Atheneum and McElderry Books.
(Publishers Lunch)

Soho Press
Kathy Daneman has been named publicity manager.
(Publishers Weekly)

Trident Media Group
Eileen Cope has joined Trident Media Group as an agent.
(Publishers Lunch)

Warner
Chris Min Park has joined Warner’s Center Street as a senior editor.
(Publishers Lunch)

UK/Europe

Chrysalis
Colin Zeigler, head of trade publishing, is leaving the company. Roger Huggins, director of publications at Chrysalis, will assume his duties overseeing world English-language co-editions with responsibility for the UK distribution of Sterling Publishing.
(Publishers Weekly)

Harper
Caroline Michel will leave Harper UK to become managing director of the William Morris Agency’s UK office.
(Publishers Lunch)

Orion
Maggie McKernan is to leave Weidenfeld & Nicolson after 13 years with the Orion group.
(Booktrade News Digest)

OUP
TIM Mahar has left the company. Alastair Lewis, formerly OUP’s Head of Sales, has been appointed Sales Director of the Academic Division.
(Publishing News)

Pearson Education
Pearson has announced the acquisition of AGS Publishing from WRC Media for $270 million in cash. AGS, based in Shoreview, Minnesota, publishes assessments and curriculum materials for U.S. school psychologists, teachers and students.
(Booktrade.info)

North America

Aspire Media
Has acquired Interweave Press.
(Publishers Weekly)

Audible
Has hired Glenn M. Rogers as chief operating officer.
(Publishers Lunch)

Doubleday
Michelle Rapkin has resigned as director of religioius publishing at Doubleday.
(Publishers Weekly)

Putnam
Dan Harvey, longtime Putnam marketing vet, will leave the company June 30.
(Publishers Weekly)

Quayside Publishing Group
B.J. Berti has been hired as executive editor for creative publishing international. She joins from Crafter’s Choice Book Club and will be based in New York City.
(Press release)

Rodale
Rodale Books editor-in-chief Tami Booth Corwin is taking on the additional, newly created job of president of the unit.
(Publishers Lunch)

Scholastic
Ellie Berger has been promoted to svp, trade publishing.
(Publishers Lunch)

Simon & Schuster
Has strengthened its ties to popular erotic novelist Zane, acquiring all the titles of Strebor Books, the publishing house founded by Zane and distributed by S&S that focuses on African American books. Strebor, which has a backlist of about 50 titles, will become an imprint of Atria Books, with Zane continuing as publisher and reporting to Atria publisher Judith Curr.
(Publishers Weekly)

Thomas Nelson
Heather Adams has been promoted to the new position of director of publicity.
(Publishers Lunch)

UK/Europe

Faber
Faber editor-in-chief Jon Riley is to leave the publisher.
(The Bookseller)

Hachette Children’s Books
Has appointed Susan Barry, former head of marketing at the Watts Group, as group marketing director. Geraldine Stroud, who was responsible for publicity, has resigned. Elisa Offord has left to join Simon & Schuster.
(The Bookseller)

Ivy Press Group
Stephen Paul has been appointed group managing director. Publisher Sophie Collins has resigned.
(The Bookseller)

Nielsen BookData
Francis Bennett, managing director, has accepted a new role of non-executive chairman, relinquishing day-to-day operational control of Nielsen BookData and BookNet.
(The Bookseller)

Octopus Publishing Group
Has announced the retirement of c.e.o. Derek Freeman and the resignation of Jane Aspden, publisher and m.d. of Mitchell Beazley, Miller’s Publications and Conran Octopus.
(The Bookseller)

Simon & Schuster
After six years, Kathy Gale is to leave to set up her own business.
(The Bookseller)

Waterstone’s
Has promoted Caroline Mileham to fiction and non-fiction manager. David Plummer will take on a new role of commercial controller.
(The Bookseller)

North America

Copyright Clearance Center
Has appointed Bill Burger vice president of marketing.
(Subtext)

ESPN Books
Gary Hoenig, currently editor-in-chief of ESPN The Magazine, will manage ESPN books. Hoenig continues to edit the magazine while adding responsibility for acquisitions, editing and production of the book imprint.
(Publishers Weekly)

Goldberg McDuffie Communications
Angela Baggetta Hayes has been promoted to the position of deputy director of publicity.
(Subtext)

Harper
John Williams has been promoted to editor for Harper Perennial and Harper trade paperbacks.
(Publishers Lunch)
Laurie Rippon, publisher of Collins Design, is leaving effective July 31.
(Publishing Trends)
Marta Schooler has been named vp and publisher of Collins Design.
(Publishers Lunch)

Harvest Books
Barbara Sherrill, currently the editorial managing director, has been promoted to vice president, marketing, succeeding Julie McKinney.
(Publishers Weekly)

Hyperion
Publisher Ellen Archer and editor-in-chief Will Schwalbe have been promoted to senior vice presidency.
(Publishers Lunch)

Ingram
Jim Stewart, formerly vice president of e-commerce, has been promoted to vice president, business operations.
(Publishers Weekly)

Kirkus Reviews
Elaine Szewczyk has been named editor. Eric Liebetrau has been named associate editor, Kirkus Special Projects.
(Publishing Trends)

Kneerim & Williams
Steve Wasserman is running the Manhattan office of this Boston-based agency.
(Publishing Trends)

Marketing Works
Michael Keller has been appointed director of marketing.
(Subtext)

PGW Kids
Susan McConnell has been named director of children’s sales for PGW and PGKids.
(Publishers Weekly)

Promethean
Mark Elliott has joined the company as president of US operations.
(Subtext)

Random House
Jon Karp, editor in chief, has resigned. Random has not named a replacement.
(Publishers Weekly)

ReganMedia
Maureen O’Neal has joined as a senior editor.
(Publishing Trends)

Scholastic
Scholastic Library Publishing has eliminated about 30 positions, including some unfilled posts as its Danbury, Conn. offices.
(Publishers Weekly)

Simon & Schuster Canada
Deb Woods will step down as president on July 15.

Vigliano Associates
Celeste Bernadette Fine has returned to Vigliano Associates, now as an agent, managing foreign rights and developing her own client list.
(Publishers Lunch)

Soho Press
Kathy Daneman has been named publicity manager at Soho Press, starting in early July.
(Publishers Lunch)

Taschen
Jason Mitchell will be publicity director.
(Publishing Trends)

Van Tulleken
Chris Pooley has been named a senior partner based at the company’s New York City offices.
(Publishers Lunch)

Vigliano Associates
Celeste Bernadette Fine has returned to Vigliano Associates, now as an agent, managing foreign rights and developing her own client list.
(Publishers Lunch)

UK/Europe

Banta
Promoted Padraic Allen to president of the Banta supply-chain management group, based in Cork, Ireland.
(Subtext)

Instituto Cervantes
Juan Pedro Aparicio has taken over as director.
(The Bookseller)

Nielsen BookData
Has appointed Paul Dibble as UK library manager.
(The Bookseller)

Orchard Books
Miranda Baker has been hired as novelty and picture book editor.
(The Bookseller)

Random House
Liz Foley is promoted to editor of Vintage.
(The Bookseller)

Time Warner
Antonia Hodgson steps up to become publishing director of Time Warner, the commercial division of the Time Warner Book Group.
(Publishing News)

Virgin Books
Has appointed Stuart Evers as a commissioning editor.
(The Bookseller)

North America

Audible
Elizabeth Mackey has been named vice president for content business development.
(Publishers Weekly)

Berkley
Kate Seaver has been named a senior editor at Berkley.
(Publishers Weekly)

Gibbs Smith
Anne Hollinshead DeCourcey has been appointed director of international, trade and library sales.
(Publishers Weekly)

Lyons Press
Robert Kirkpatrick, previously senior editor at Greenwood Publishing, has joined the Lyons Press acquiring titles in sports, history and current events.
(Publishers Weekly)

Triumph
Bill Scroggie has been named executive vice president of product development.
(Publishers Weekly)

Trident Media
John Silbersack has been promoted to executive vice-president.
(Publishers Weekly)

UK/Europe

Elsevier
Y.S. Chi has been named vice chairman. Chi will head Elsevier’s global academic and customer relations.
(Publishers Weekly)

Portobello Books
Tasja Dorkofikis is to join as Publicity Director and Associate Publisher.
(book2book.com)

North America

Berkley
Leah Hultenschmidt has been named a senior editor. She’ll acquire romances, chick lit, mysteries and nonfiction.
(Publishers Weekly)

Big Earth
Big Earth Publishing will acquire Intrigue Press. A division of Corvus Publishing, Intrigue is a publisher of mystery and suspense titles and has a backlist of about 55 books. The deal is expected to close by May 31.
(Publishers Weekly)

Books & Such
Wendy Lawton has been hired as a literary agent.
(Publishers Weekly)

Bowker
Andrew Grabois, v-p of publisher relations and content development is leaving the company as of May 27.
(Publishers Weekly)

Chronicle
Chris Navratil, executive director of sales and marketing, is leaving the company. Abby Hoffman has rejoined Chronicle as v-p of sales and marketing effective September 1. Tyrrell Mahoney has been promoted to executive director of sales.
(Publishers Weekly)

Crown
Crown has hired Allison McCabe as a senior editor, starting next month. She will acquire both fiction and nonfiction.
(Publishers Lunch)

Fulcrum
Mike Dyer has joined the company as v-p of sales. Tammy Deranleau is the new director of sales.
(Publishers Weekly)

Harper
Dawn Davis, editorial director of Amistad Press, has been named vice president.
(Publishers Weekly)

McGraw-Hill
McGraw-Hill Professional named Jack St. Mary vice president of group sales. He will oversee national sales strategy and will report directly to Keith Fox, the unit’s president. St. Mary was most recently vice president, director of sales at Random House Children’s Books.
(BookMonday)

William Morris Agency
Dorian Karchmar is joining the agency, representing both literary and mainstream fiction writers and general nonfiction.

Waterbrook
Dudley Delffs has been promoted to v-p of editorial and editor-in-chief. Ginia Hairston has been promoted to v-p of marketing and publicity. Bruce Nygren has been named editorial director.
(Publishers Weekly)

Zondervan
Doug Lockhart has been named president of the religious book division of HarperCollins, taking over for Bruce Ryskamp, who will continue as CEO.
(Publishers Weekly)

UK/Europe

Amazon
Managing director Robin Terrell leaves the company next month.
(The Bookseller)

Bloomsbury
Director of marketing Maya Baran is now director of publicity, and Peter Miller is associate director of publicity; sales director Josh Wood is now director of sales planning and inventory. Director of publicity Marian Brown is now marketing and editorial director, paperbacks.
(Publishers Lunch)

Entertainment UK
Sharon Gurney moves to Entertainment UK in June as buyer for adult books.
(Publishing News)

Hodder
Is restructuring its sales department. Two separate UK sales business units are being established, with a new appointment being made to head up each unit. Laura Findlay joins as key account director: High Street retail and Liz Hitchcock is promoted to key account director: mass market retail.
(Publishing News)

Methuen
Alan Gordon Walker has joined Methuen as a publishing consultant for Politico’s, replacing Sean Magee.
(Publishing News)

Penguin UK
Penguin UK has appointed Marcella Edwards as a senior commissioning editor for classics at Penguin Press.
(Publishers Lunch)

Scholastic
Gavin Lang will move to a new role in the group as director, international trade effective 1 June. Elaine McQuade has been appointed Managing Director of Scholastic UK. She joins Scholastic on 8 August.
(Publishing News)

Asia/Pacific

Random House
Random House’s Y.S. Chi is stepping down from his position as the founding head of Random House Asia. Chi will keep seats on the boards of the Random House Kodansha and Random House JoongAng joint ventures, and will take a job outside the book business.

Filling the job of president and CEO of RH Asia as of June 1 is Korean-based agent Eric Yang, who will sell his interest in the Eric Yang Agency.
(Publishers Lunch)

North America

Columbia University Press
Myles C. Thompson, founder and former publisher of Thomson Texere, will join the press as publisher of finance and economics.
(Publishers Weekly)

Cornell University Press
Peter Wissoker, formerly senior acquisitions editor at Temple University Press, has been named an editor in sociology, anthropology, georgraphy and urban studies. Alison Kalett, previously an editorial associate at Princeton University Press, has been named an acquisitions editor in American history and American studies.
(Publishers Weekly)

DC Comics
Jake Tarbox, CMX group editor, has resigned.
(Publishers Weekly)

HarperCollins
Rockelle Henderson, formerly marketing director, has been promoted to associate publisher of Amistad.
(Publishers Weekly)

Harper Perennial
Associate publisher Jennifer Hart will add the title of associate publisher for Ecco, as Amy Baker is promoted to associate director of marketing for Ecco and Perennial.
(Publishers Lunch)

Hastings
Ed White, previously merchandise manager at Baker & Taylor, has been named director of book operations at Hastings.
(Publishers Weekly)

Houghton Mifflin
Harvey Berliner, formerly sales and marketing manager for office products and school supply, has been promoted to national sales director, school supply and office product channels.
(Publishers Weekly)
Kate Travers is leaving Harper to join Houghton as director of trade paperbacks, working out of the New York office. Susan Canavan, recently promoted to senior editor, will relinquish her role as managing director for trade paperback to focus on her own acquisitions.
(Publishers Lunch)

Ingram
Tom Jourdane has been hired as director of proprietary and bargain merchandise.
(Publishers Lunch)

Kirkus
Anne Larsen has stepped down as editor of Kirkus Reviews after 20 years in the post.
(Publishers Weekly)

Levy Home Entertainment
Howard Reese, formerly president and COO, has been named president and CEO and was elected to the board of directors at Chas. Levy. Steve Carlson, formerly v-p and controller, has been promoted to senior v-p and CFO. Mike Hesselbach, senior v-p, sales and field marketing, has been promoted to senior v-p and CMO. Lou Keiler has been named senior v-p, general counsel and corporate secretary.
(Publishers Weekly)

National Book Network
Appointed Peter Molinari director of mass markets. He is currently mass merchandising sales manager at Publishers Group West.
(Subtext)

North Atlantic Books and Frog Ltd.
Debbie Matsumoto has joined as publicity manager. She was senior publicity manager at Chronicle Books.
(Publishers Lunch)

Penguin Group USA
Penguin’s Perigee imprint promoted Michelle Howry to senior editor.
(Subtext)

Scholastic
School Library Journal editor-in-chief Evan St. Lifer will join Scholastic in the new position of vp and general manager of Scholastic Library Publishing, overseeing editorial, marketing and sales efforts for the library publishing businesses.
(Publishers Lunch)

Time Warner Book Group
Larry Kirshbaum has announced that he’ll soon step down as Time Warner Book Group chairman and CEO to (possibly) become a literary agent. Kirshbaum’s replacement will be TWBG’s chairman and CEO in the U.K., David Young, who will take over at the end of the year. President and COO Maureen Egan will be promoted to vice-chairman and publisher for the entire Book Group.
(Publishers Weekly)

UK/Europe

National Book Network
National Book Network and printers Edwards Brothers are partnering to create a digital book production facility at NBN International’s Plymouth, England offices. The unit is expected to be operational by June.
(Subtext)

Penguin
Viking publishing director Juliet Annan will head up the new Penguin imprint focusing on “distinctive contemporary writers who have the broadest appeal”. She will be replaced at Viking by Venetia Butterfield, currently publisher of Harper Perennial.
(Publishing News)

Time Warner Book Group
Ursula Mackenzie, currently publisher of the UK company, will replace David Young, with the title of CEO and publisher TWBGUK.
(Publishing News)

North America

Doubleday Broadway
Kris Puopolo has been given the new position of senior editor for Doubleday Broadway taking on additional responsibility for acquiring serious nonfiction for the Doubleday list.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

DSM Agency
Ben Salmon has been promoted to agent. Delia Berrigan, formerly at Wiley, has joined the agency as an assistant.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

HarperCollins
Mauro DiPreta has been promoted to editorial director for HarperEntertainment, though he will continue to acquire for Morrow as well.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

J. Countryman
Lisa Stilwell has joined in the new role of editor in chief and product director, overseeing the company’s gift books and reporting to publisher Troy Johnson.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

McIntosh & Otis
Agent Jonathan Lyons joins starting this week, where he will continue to represent adult fiction and nonfiction.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

Other Press
Daniel Reid has been hired as an editor. He will acquire narrative nonfiction for the company’s trade imprints, as well as helping to extend the breadth of the academic list.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

Putnam’s
Dan Conaway has been appointed executive editor. Rachel Kahan has been named senior editor. Jennifer Brehl has been promoted to vice president, director of editorial
development for the William Morrow and Eos imprints.
(BookMonday)

Rodale
Lisa Considine has joined Rodale as a senior editor in the NY office.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

St Martin’s
Philip S. Revzin has joined the company as a senior editor, acquiring business narrative, finance, and current affairs titles.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

Scholastic
Rachel Kempster is now a senior publicist and Steve Hughes has joined as art director for Cartwheel Books. David Levithan has been promoted to executive editor for trade books and editorial director for the PUSH teen imprint. Charisse Meloto has been promoted to media director in trade publicity. David Goddy is moving from vp of Scholastic Education to vp for strategic development at E-Scholastic, reporting to new division president Seth Radwell.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster’s sales and distribution division appointed Corrine Van Natta director of the distributor sales and retail marketing group, children’s.
(BookMonday)

John Wiley & Sons
Is acquiring computer book and software publisher Sybex Inc. Sybex publishes about 100 new titles a year on graphics, digital photography, operating systems, programming, and gaming, and has a backlist of about 450 titles.
(book2book)

Zachary Shuster Harmsworth
Agent Jennifer Gates has been made a partner in the firm. She has been at the agency since 1997.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

UK/Europe

B3
Damian Kelleher, founding partner of children’s contract publishers B3, has left to concentrate on freelance writing and consultancy.
(Publishing News)

Foyles
Becky Harlowe is now Foyles’ Lifestyle Buyer, Nancy Ramkissun will be developing corporate and business account sales and Julia Kingsford is now the company’s promotions executive.
(Publishing News)

Hodder
Charles Nettleton is to leave Hodder after nearly 20 years with the company. His parallel position as MD of Hodder Religious Books is being filled by Martin Mullin, most recently Hodder Headline’s business development director.
(Publishing News)

Pan Macmillan
Camilla Elworthy, formerly Picador publicity director, has been promoted to Pan Macmillan group publicity director. She replaces Jacqui Graham who has been promoted to the new role of director of dorporate PR and special projects. Anna Stockbridge, formerly key accounts manager, is now UK Sales Director, replacing Charlotte Robertson who has left for Simon & Schuster.
(Publishing News)

Random House
At Random House Children’s Books, Rachel Armstrong has been promoted to publicity manager and Nicola Frame has joined as press officer.
(Publishing News)

Simon & Schuster
Helen O’Reilly, currently sales manager and key accounts manager at Penguin Press, is joining Simon & Schuster as key accounts director, joining newly appointed group sales director Charlotte Robertson.
(Publishing News)

North America

ALA
Princeton Public Library director Leslie Burger has been elected president of the ALA for 2006-2007.
(Publishers Lunch)

HCPro
Rob Stuart was named senior vice president and chief operating officer.
(Professional Publishing Report)

L.A. Times Book Review
Steve Wasserman has resigned as editor. A replacement has not yet been named.
(Publishers Weekly)

Lebhar-Friedman
Has acquired Dowden Health Media, the medical journal and consumer magazine publisher. Dowden will become a subsidiary of Lebhar-Friedman, which publishes Drug Store News, with a subscriber base of more than 40,000.
(Professional Publishing Report)

Marsh Cove Productions
Atlanta-based Marsh Cove Productions has acquired August House Publishers, Inc., one of the country’s top independent book and audio publishing units. The combined companies will operate under the name of August House. Marsh Cove has announced the corporate structure of the new company: Steve Floyd is chief executive officer (CEO); Ted Parkhurst, president; Elizabeth (Liz) Parkhurst, publisher and vice president; Joe Kissack, executive vice president, sales and distribution; Graham Anthony, executive vice president and creative director; Pamela Rubin, director of education services; and Rob Cleveland, director of development.
(ForeWord)

Rodale
Amy Rhodes announced that she will leave her position as publisher of the Rodale’s trade book line in June. Zach Schisgal has been promoted to executive editor and will oversee the Men’s Health/Sports list, taking over from Jeremy Katz.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Rick Johnson, the Coalition’s founding executive director, is leaving his position in July and will be replaced by Heather Joseph.
(Professional Publishing Report)

Workman Publishing
Chris Pavone joins the company as associate publisher in the Artisan division.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

UK/Europe

BioMed Central
Jan Velterop, director and publisher, resigned to pursue other activities as an advocated of Open Access.
(Professional Publishing Report)

Bloomsbury
Amy King joins the company as creative director.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

HarperCollins
Jane Harris, currently sales director, is leaving to take up the same position at Walker Books, beginning in June. Head of marketing and publicity Caroline Paul is moving over to become key account sales director.
(Publishing News)

Little Tiger
Has hired Jane Harris to head up its new Stripes fiction list.
(Publishing News)

North America

Doubleday Broadway
Doubleday Broadway’s Suzanne Herz will become publisher of a new imprint for the house, Flying Point Press, focusing on popular culture and fiction and aiming to publish up to six books a year.
(Publishers Lunch)

Gibbs-Smith
Leading independent lifestyle publisher Gibbs-Smith has purchased South Carolina-based regional publisher Wyrick & Company. Wyrick & Company will function as a separate imprint focusing on the Southeastern US, and offering books on architecture, cooking, design, and Southern culture and history.
(ForeWord)

The Princeton Review
The Princeton Review named Dr. John Stuppy chief information officer.
(BookMonday)

Scholastic
Is to acquire Barry Cunningham’s children’s venture, Chicken House. Cunningham, who will remain at the head of Chicken House, will report to Scholastic’s New York headquarters. He will continue to operate from its headquarters in the UK.
(The Bookseller)

Workman Publishing
Steven Pace, formerly v-p of retail sales at Baker & Taylor, has joined Workman Publishing as sales director for the book trade.
(Publishers Weekly)

UK/Europe

Faber and Faber
Four new board appointments have been named at Faber, along with the announcement of promotions. Joining the board are Rachel Alexander, Will Atkinson, Belinda Matthews and Camilla Smallwood. Neal Price has been promoted to key accounts director and Diana Brocardo becomes international sales director; Lee Brackstone is promoted to editorial director for fiction; Angus Cargill is promoted to fiction editor; Anna Pallai is promoted to head of publicity.
(Publishing News)

Harlequin Mills & Boon
Pamela Laycock, managing director of Harlequin Mills & Boon, has been made executive vice president of strategy and new business development at Harlequin’s Canadian head office.
(The Bookseller)

Kogan Page
Has appointed Stephen Lustig as full-time sales and marketing direrctor; Lynda Moynihan to sales manager, UK and export; and Lisa von Fircks to rights and e-business manager.
(The Bookseller)

Learning Matters
Has hired Julia Morris as commissioning editor for the teacher training list. Judith Harvey has been promoted to operations director; and Jeremy Stein to sales and marketing director.
(The Bookseller)

Orion Books
BCA’s Lisa Milton is to become managing director of Orion Books. Milton is currently editorial director at Book Club Associates.
(forums.booktrade/info)

Random House
The Random House Group has taken a 50% holding in Mainstream, the Edinburgh-based non-fiction publisher. The company will continue to operate from the Mainstream offices.
(Publishing News)

Walker Books
Jane Harris is to join Walker Books as UK sales director.
(The Bookseller)

North America

Borders
Borders Group has made a number of management reassignments:
Vin Altruda is now president of Borders Group U.S.
Rich Vanzura will become president of Borders Group International and Paperchase Worldwide.
Mike Spinozzi was appointed executive vp, chief product officer.(BookMonday)
National accounts manager Sarah Schaffer has been promoted to director of sales. (Publishers Lunch)

Cambium Learning
Cambium Learning, a provider of instructional materials, services, and technology to challenged students, has agreed to acquire Kurzweil Education Systems.
(Subtext)

DPL Press
will begin publishing this autumn, focusing on personal finance. National Book Network’s FaithWorks will be the distributor.
(Subtext)

Harcourt
Editorial director Allyn Johnston has been promoted to the new position of editor-in-chief for Harcourt Children’s Books.
Elizabeth Van Doren is being promoted to an “enhanced editorial director position” for Red Wagon Books.
Kathy Dawson has been hired as associate editorial director starting on June 1.
Jeannette Larson has been promoted to executive editor.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

HarperCollins
Ellen Stamper has joined HarperFestival as editorial director.
(Subtext)

Hyperion
Director of marketing Jane Comins has been given the additional title of associate publisher. Director of publicity Katie Wainwright adds responsibility as associate publisher for trade paperbacks.
(Publishers Lunch)

IHS Inc.
IHS Inc., the defense, engineering and energy publisher, acquired American Technical Publishers of the UK this month.
(Professional Publishing Report)

LexisNexis
LexisNexis has acquired Weil Publishing, a publisher of state government registers and administrative codes.
(Professional Publishing Report)

McGraw-Hill Education
has appointed Carlos Garcia vice-president of National Urban Markets. Garcia will report to Dan Domenech, senior vp, National Urban Markets.
(BookMonday)

Publishers Group West (PGW)
PGW has promoted Kim Wylie to executive vice-president of sales. She will remain based in New York.
(Publishers Lunch)

Random House
Longtime editor Kate Medina has been promoted to executive editorial director.
(Publishers Lunch)

Scholastic
Mary-Alice Moore will be vp of new product development for the At-Home direct sales division, reporting to svp of marketing and product development Heather Burgett.
Cindy Eng will be vp of editorial, reporting to Moore.
Andrea Menotti has been promoted to associate editorial director, school continuities, reporting to Eng.
Nick DiMarco joins as vp of marketing.
Emily Takoudes, who was an associate editor at Simon & Schuster, will join Ecco next month as an editor.
(Publishers Lunch)

Shambala Publications
Shambala has officially announced the launch of their Trumpeter Books imprint.
(Publishers Lunch)

Simon & Schuster
Jeanne Ng was named managing director of Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Emily Thomas was promoted to editor of S&S Books for Young Readers.
Catherine Daly is the new vice-president and editorial director of Simon Spotlight.
(Subtext)

Smithsonian Books
Elisabeth Dyssegaard will join the unit as executive editor at the beginning of next month. Joining her at the same time in the editorial department will be T.J. Kellerher, most recently senior editor at Natural History magazine.
(Publisher’s Lunch)

UK/Europe

HarperCollins
has appointed Claire Harding, formerly of Disney, to the newly created role of children’s business development director. She joins next month and will report to group sales and marketing director David Swarbrick.
(The Bookseller)

Hodder Children’s Books
Geraldine Stroud has been promoted to head of marketing and PR , who will report to new Hachette Children’s Books managing director Marlene Johnson.
(The Bookseller)

John Wiley & Sons
has acquired Whurr Publishers Ltd of London, a publisher of books and journals in health sciences and special education.
(Subtext)

Portobello Books
New independent publisher Portobello Books has appointed Laura Barber as editor. She joins from Penguin next month.
(The Bookseller)

Random House
Mark McCallum, marketing director at Random House’s Century Hutchinson Arrow division is to leave the company at the end of this month to launch a new media venture.
(The Bookseller)

Rodale Books International
Louise Rice has been appointed managing director of Rodale Books International, taking over from Adrian Webster. Webster will revert to his original role as international publishing consultant to Rodale. Rice was most recently CEO of Lonely Planet’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Region.
(Publishing News)

R. R. Donnelley & Sons
has agreed to acquire U.K. print and mail provider The Astron Group.
(BookMonday)

Simon & Schuster
Elisa Offord, marketing director of Hodder Children’s Books, will join S&S in June as children’s marketing director.
Joanna Moult, editor of fiction at Hodder, will join S&S Children’s as senior editor.

Springer Science
SpringerScience +Business Media of Berlin has purchased the publishing assets of Brouwer Media from Consolidated Graphics.
(Professional Publishing Report)

North America

Amazon
Has acquired Mobipocket.
(Publishers Lunch)

Borders
Named Vin Altruda president of Borders Group US.

Chief marketing officer Mike Spinozzi has been named chief product officer, continuing to oversee merchandising and supply chain in the US, and will start spending more time on international operations.

Rick Vanzura becomes president of Borders Group international and Paperchase worldwide. He still retains his previous responsibility for information technology.
(Publishers Lunch)

Brilliance Audio
Has been acquired by its two top executives in a leveraged buyout. R. Michael Snodgrass, a founder of the company and part-owner, and Eileen Hutton, vice president and associate publisher, have teamed up to buy out the shares from other investors.
(Publishers Weekly)

Global Literary Management
Agents Didier Imbot, Stéphanie Abou, Marc Serges, and Sandra Zane joined to form this agency, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Paris. Imbot is the founder and manager, previously publisher of Hachette’s crime/thriller imprint Le Masque/Librairie des Champs Elysées. Abou was an agent and foreign rights manager at the Joy Harris Literary Agency. Serges, who has been a scout at Franklin and Siegal, will represent clients and oversee foreign rights. Zane, also most recently at Franklin and Siegal, will run the Los Angeles office.
(Publishers Lunch)

Joy Harris Literary Agency
Cheryl Pientka has joined, taking over for the departing Stephanie Abou. Pientka was a scout at Barbara Tolley & Associates.
(Publishers Lunch)

Key Porter Books
Anna Porter will resign as publisher, though she will maintain a stake in the company and will continue to work with select authors. Associate publisher Jordan Fenn, son of majority owner H.B. Fenn, will take over.
(Publishers Lunch)

NBN
Will sell its Christian products distribution division, FaithWorks, to STL, Inc. in a deal expected to close May 31. STL is the American subsidiary of the U.K.-based Send the Light Ltd.

Larry Carpenter, founder of FaithWorks, and vice president Dave Troutman will move to STL to continue to run FaithWorks.
(Publishers Weekly)

Patricia Kelly will join as senior director of sales and director of the NBNKids program, based in the San Francisco area. Kelly is currently director of sales for children’s and special markets at Publishers Group West.
(Publishers Lunch)

Penguin Books
Stephen Morrison has been named editor-in-chief and associate publisher and will begin his new position on May 2nd.
(Yahoo.com)

The Princeton Review
Named Robert Cohen executive vice president and interim general manager of its K-12 services division. He succeeds Tim Conroy, who died unexpectedly. Cohen was most recently executive vice president of strategic development, a post he will continue to hold during the interim period.
(Book Monday)

Publishers Weekly
Louisa Ermelino will join next month as reviews editor, a new position. Ermelino was most recently the chief of reporters at InStyle magazine.
(Publishers Weekly)

Rodale
Tami Booth has been promoted to editor-in-chief of books and will now oversee all three groups: men’s health, women’s health and general books.
(Publishers Weekly)

Jeremy Katz will leave his job as executive editor of men’s health and sports books to join Sanford J. Greenburger Associates as an agent in May. He’ll represent books on men’s health, as well as fiction, health, fitness, and narrative books.
(Publishers Lunch)

UK/Europe

A P Watts
Georgia Garrett has been appointed deputy managing director.
(The Bookseller)

Amstel Uitgevers
This Dutch publisher, comprising the imprints Atlas, Augustus, Business Contact, Houtekiet, L. J. Veen, and Pandora Pockets, has announced a new management team. Parent company VBK is moving Ronald Anderson over from their Ambo/Anthos line to take over as managing director. Atlas publisher and editor-in-chief Emile Brugman adds the title of overall publishing director. Mouria’s Marijke Bartels and Martijn David will run L.J. Veen’s editorial department.
(Publishers Lunch)

Bertelsmann
Will acquire French bookstore chain Privat.
(Publishers Lunch)

Crown House Publishing
Has promoted Rosalie Williams to marketing and rights manager.
(The Bookseller)

Entertainment UK
Joanne Willetts has been appointed to a new position as head of books.
(Publishing News)

Franklin Watts
Has promoted Rachel Cooke to deputy publishing director.
(The Bookseller)

Hachette Children’s Books
Has been formed due to the merger of Hodder Children’s Books and Orchard Books.
(The Bookseller)

HarperCollins
Has appointed Claire Harding, previously senior brand manager for consumer products at Disney, to the newly created role of children’s business development director.
(Publishing News)

Hodder Children’s Books
Geraldine Stroud has been promoted to head of marketing and public relations.
(Publishing News)

Imagineire
Has hired Steven Wright as sales director. He was previously sales director at Pan Macmillan.
(The Bookseller)

John Wiley & Sons
Has acquired Whurr, the UK publisher of books and journals in health sciences and special education.
(Publishing News)

Know the Score Books
Independent educational publisher QGP LTD. is launching this new sports and pastimes imprint headed by managing director Simon Lowe.
(Publishing News)

Orchard Books
Philippa Stewart has been appointed acting director as Ann-Janine Murtagh goes on maternity leave.
(The Bookseller)

Ottakar’s
Has promoted Anthony Browne to Scottish marketing manager.
(The Bookseller)

Random House
Mark McCallum is leaving at the end of April from his role as marketing director of the CHA division to launch a new media venture.
(Publishing News)

Rodale Books International
Louise Rice has been appointed managing director, taking over from Adrian Webster. Webster will revert to his original role as international publishing consultant. She was most recently CEO of Lonely Planet’s Europe, Middle East and Africa region.
(Publishing News)

Simon & Schuster Children’s Books
Elisa Offord, marketing director of Hodder Children’s Books, will join in June as children’s marketing director.

Joanna Moult, editor of fiction at Hodder, will join as senior editor, working with Venetia Gosling, fiction editorial director for children.
(Publishing News)

South Bank Center
The press office has chosen Rebecca Linsley as press officer for literature and talks.
(The Bookseller)

Time Warner Book Group
Is merging its commercial imprints Time Warner Books and Time Warner Paperbacks, all under the name Time Warner Books.

Roger Cazalet has been promoted to group marketing director. He succeeds Terry Jackson, who is stepping down from this role and the board in July.
(The Bookseller)

North America

ABA
David Walker has joined as director of special projects. He has been an industry consultant and was previously general manager of Olsson’s Books & Records in Washington, DC.
(Publishers Lunch)

Amazon
Has acquired BookSurge, the print-on-demand manufacturer based in Charleston, South Carolina.
(Publishers Lunch)

Atria
Has named David Brown as publicity manager for Atria Books and Washington Square Press. The Harper publicist replaces Audra Boltion, who recently left for Harper.
(Publishers Weekly)

Ave Maria Press
Tom Grady, long time Editorial Director at HarperSanFranicisco and subsequently a literary agent, has been named publisher at this press in Notre Dame.
(Publishing Trends)

Bantam Dell
Jackie Cantor, vice president and executive editor, is leaving the company.
(Publishing Trends)

Barbara Tolley
Cheryl Pientka is leaving to become subrights manager and an agent at the Joy Harris Agency.
(Publishing Trends)

Barnes & Noble Publishing
Editor Laura Nolan is leaving the company.
(Publishing Trends)

Berkley
Gail Fortune has left her position as an editor to join John Talbot of The John Talbot Agency in a new venture, The Talbot Fortune Agency.
(Publishers Lunch)

The Book Industry Study Group
Named Dominique Raccah, founder of Sourcebooks and is publisher and chief executive officer, and Mike Stauch, Amazon.com’s director of North America Book Buying, to its board of directors. Raccah will represent the interests of mid-sized publishers, while Stauch replaces board member Lyn Blake, who is retiring from Amazon.com.
(Subtext)

Cleveland Clinic Press
Larry Chilnick has been hired as editorial director for this new commercial publishing arm of this well-known academic hospital.
(Publishers Lunch)

Disney
Jeanne Mosure will take over as global publisher and general manager of the children’s book group, following Lisa Holton’s departure.

Brenda Bowen moves up to associate publisher and editor-in-chief of global children’s book

Lynn Waggoner has been promoted to associate publisher.
(Publishers Lunch)

Dutton
Senior editor Jerry Brozek has left NAL.
(Publishing Trends)

Elsevier
Randolph Charles has recently joined as executive vice president, chief marketing officer for the Health Sciences division. He will be responsible for all Health Sciences marketing, as well as Elsevier Canada. He will be part of the Health Sciences division management group and will be based in Philadelphia, PA.
(ManagingInformation.com)

Frances Goldin Literary Agency
Longtime Curtis Brown agent Ellen Geiger has joined the company.
(Publishers Lunch)

HarperCollins
Ellen Stamper has been hired as editorial director for the children’s imprint Festival.
(Publishers Lunch)

Harry N. Abrams Inc.
The Amulet Books imprint has further expanded with its launch of Amulet Paperbacks. It will offer soft cover editions of bestselling hardcover fiction titles
(Subtext)

Houghton Mifflin
Donna Lucki is now president of the School division, overseeing the publishing, marketing and sales operations of the pre-K through grade 6 line. She was senior vice president and publisher.
(Publishers Lunch)

Ingram Publisher Services
Christian publisher Integrity has become a client of fulfillment to retail and wholesale customers, beginning in early July.
(Publishers Lunch)

Knopf
Sales and marketing director, Amanda Kauff has resigned to follow her husband, who is being relocated to London.
(Publishing Trends)

Kodansha America
Laura Shatzkin has joined as director of marketing and sales. She was director of advertising, promotions and publicity at Kensington.
(Publishers Lunch)

Miramax Books
Rob Weisbach, an editor-at-large at Simon & Schuster, will serve as president and chief executive officer of both this company and The Weinstein Company’s new book venture, starting April 11.

Miramax Books itself remains part of Disney and will continue to publish their books through Hyperion and Hyperion Books for Children.
(Publishers Lunch)

National Book Foundation
Meg Kearney, associate director, has left the organization.
(Publishing Trends)

Perseus
Has closed their acquisition of Client Distribution Services, including Harvard Business School Press, Taschen, Abbeville, and Tokyopop.
(Publishers Lunch)

Publishers Weekly
John Mutter has left to pursue other opportunities.
(Publishers Weekly)

Putnam
Jennifer Romanello has been appointed to director of publicity.
(Publishers Weekly)

The Quills Literacy Foundation
Ann Binkley has been named executive director. She was formerly executive director of New York is Book Country.
(Publishing Trends)

Rizzoli
Eva Prinz has returned as editor in the fine arts department after a guest editorship at Index Magazine.
(Publishers Lunch)

Rodale
Stephanie Tade has will again be a literary agent.
(Publishing Trends)

Cathy Lee Gruhn has been promoted to executive director of publicity, as Louise Braverman steps up to associate director.

Mariska Van Aalst and Susan Berg have both been promoted to senior editor

Jennifer DeFilippi has been hired as an editor, acquiring general lifestyle books. She was at Clarkson Potter.
(Publishers Lunch)

Running Press
Publisher John Whalen is leaving to pursue other opportunities.

Creative director Jon Anderson will become acting publisher.
(Publishers Lunch)

Scholastic
Barbara Marcus, president of children’s book publishing and distribution and executive vice president of Scholastic Inc., has decided to leave the company. Lisa Holton, senior vice president and publisher at Global Disney Children’s Books will succeed her.
(Yahoo.com)

The Software & Information Industry Association
Named Ed Keating vice president of its content division.
(Professional Publishing Report)

Spark Group
Liz Kessler has joined Spark Educational Publishing as managing editor. She comes from Scholastic where she was also managing editor.

Vince Janoski has been named business manager for the group which now includes the Barnes &
Noble Classics.
(Publishing Trends)

STC
Anne Kostick has left where she had been a senior editor.
(Publishing Trends)

Thomson Scientific and Healthcare
Named Kevin King president and chief executive officer of the Healthcare division. King replaces Rick Noble who resigned from the position. He was most recently vice president and general manager of GE Global Clinical Systems.
(Professional Publishing Report)

University of Chicago Press
Anna Fleming was named library relations manager. She was most recently director of library services for the Art Institute of California.
(Professional Publishing Report)

YC Media
Aimee Bianca has joined this food-focused public relations firm as senior account executive. Previously, she has worked in publicity departments at Norton and Overlook.
(Publishers Lunch)

UK/Europe

Amstel Publishers
Marij Bertram, managing director, and Hendrik de Leeuw, commercial director, have left this subsidiary of Veen Bosch & Keuning to start their own independent house.
(The Bookseller)

Blackwell UK
Sue Gregory, national medical sales manager, has left the company.
(The Bookseller)

The Bookseller
Tom Holman, publishing reporter and charts/media manager, is to leave to company, but will continue on a freelance basis.

Giles Elliot has been promoted to charts and media editor.
(The Bookseller)

Digital Publishing Solutions
Has appointed Julie McNair as sales director. She was formerly with Kogan Page.
(The Bookseller)

Entertainment UK
Trading controller for games and books, Simon Lee, has left the company.
(The Bookseller)

HarperCollins UK
Has promoted Helen Johnstone, previously senior press officer, to publicity manager, responsible for promoting authors and titles across the HarperFiction list.
(The Bookseller)

Mercat Press
Has appointed Vikki Reilly and Caroline Taylor to take over sales and marketing, respectively.
(The Bookseller)

NBN International
Will now handle distribution for University of Wales Press.
(The Bookseller)

Orchard Books
Has appointed Catherine Coe as editor of its fiction list. She was previously a commissioning editor at Hodder Educational.

Alice Blacker has been promoted to assistant editor while continuing her role as audio editor.
(The Bookseller)

Peter Lang AG
Has appointed Adrian Baggett as production controller. He was previously production controller at Norman Hudson & Co.
(The Bookseller)

Portobello Books
Laura Barber is moving to this company as an editor, starting next month. She was editorial director for Penguin Classics in the UK.
(Publishers Lunch)

Rodale
Louise Rice has been named as international managing director, based in their UK office.

Adrian Webster returns to being a consultant for the unit.
(Publishers Lunch)

North America

G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Ivan Held is leaving his associate publisher spot at Warner to take over as president. Held will assume the spot from Penguin Group U.S. president Susan Petersen Kennedy, who herself had taken over the job when Carole Baron left last month.

Working under Held is a recently established executive board, comprised of Neil Nyren, Dan Harvey, Marilyn Ducksworth, and Catharine Lynch.
(Publishers Weekly)

Princeton University Press
Peter J. Dougherty, group publisher for social sciences, has been named director, effective July 1. He succeeds Walter Lippincott, director of the press since 1986, who plans to retire.

(Publishers Weekly)

Random House
Has become a significant minority shareholder in Philadelphia-based American Reading Co.
(Reuters)

Warner Books
Publicity director and vice president Emi Battaglia has been promoted to associate publisher.
(Publishers Weekly)

UK/Europe

CGP
The educational publisher, based in Cumbria, has appointed Nick Evans as publishing director. He was previously a director of Fresh Minds Publishing Ltd.
(Publishing News)

Profile Media Group
Motorsport imprint Hazleton Publishing, and associated titles Autocourse and Motorcourse, have been sold to Crash dot Net Ltd, an online publishing house led by Bryn Williams.
(Publishing News)

North America

Bella Books
Has acquired Spinsters Ink. Linda Hill, vice president and COO, will serve as publisher of Spinsters.
(Publishers Weekly)

Bookspan
Carole Baron, former president of G.P. Putnam’s Sons and Dutton, is joining as senior vice president and publishing director. She will join April 4.
(Publishers Weekly)

Crown
The Thomas Schlueck Literary Agency has been appointed to represent German rights to all titles from the group, effective immediately.
(Publishers Lunch)

HarperCollins
Has promoted Knox Huston to assistant editor at Collins Reference from HarperBiz editorial assistant.

Matthew Benjamin is moving from HC editor to Collins senior editor, where he will work on reference as well as on Smithsonian titles.

The ThorsonsElement imprint’s U.S. office will close.
(Publishers Weekly)

Libby Jordan is moving from Morrow, where she had been associate publisher of Morrow/Avon and Morrow cookbooks, to the new Collins division, still as associate publisher. Jordan will oversee marketing and direct-to-consumer initiatives.
(Publishers Lunch)

Houghton Mifflin
Andrea Pinkney will step down as publisher of the children’s book group April 8.
(Publishers Weekly)

Marsh Cove Productions
This Atlanta-based multimedia company has acquired August House Publishers. Founders Ted and Elizabeth Parkhurst will remain with the company, as president and publisher/vice president respectively. Steve Floyd serves as CEO.
(Publishers Weekly)

Miramax Books
Dina Wise, head of special events, left to form her own company, Wise & Co.
(Publishers Lunch)

Simon & Schuster
Mary Matalin is starting, along with S&S, a new conservative imprint.

In the children’s publishing division, Robin Corey will leave her post as executive vice president and publisher, novelty, media and teen on April 8. Corey has been with the company since 1994 and launched Simon Spotlight, Libros Para Ninos and Little Simon Inspirations. As a result, Simon Pulse will become part of Simon Spotlight Entertainment.
(Publishers Weekly)

Sourcebooks
Chief executive officer Dominique Raccah and Amazon’s director of North America book buying Mike Strauch have both joined the board of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG). Straugh fills a slot previously held by Amazon’s Lyn Blake.
(Publishers Lunch)

Wolters Kluwer
The corporate and financial services division has named Brian Longe president and chief operating officer of the financial services unit, succeeding Robert White.
(Professional Publishing Report)

UK/Europe

Abebooks Europe
Has hired Marcus Polke as director of marketing and business development.
(The Bookseller)

Bloomsbury Publishing
Has hired Andrew Sauerwine as key account manager for adult titles. He succeeds Zinnia Butterfield.
(The Bookseller)

Peter De Giglio has been hired as chief financial officer. Most recently, he was vice president of operations at Holtzbrinck Publishers.
(Publishers Lunch)

BookForce
Has appointed Donald MacDonald as trade sales manager.
(The Bookseller)

Cavendish Publishing
Dr. Colin Perrin has joined as commissioning editor for the Glass House Press imprint.

Zoë Botterill has been appointed as textbook development and acquisitions editor.
(The Bookseller)

Constable & Robinson
Has chosen Haydn Jones as key accounts manager.
(The Bookseller)

Duncan Baird
Andrew Lucey, UK sales and marketing manager, has left the company.
(The Bookseller)

Faber & Faber
The new European export team will be headed by international sales director Diana Broccardo. The team will also include accounts managers Bunmi Oke, Louise Meny-Giber, and also Kelly Martin, who will be responsible for export administration.
(The Bookseller)

Footprint Handbooks
Andy Riddle, sales and marketing director for Lonely Planet, is leaving to become joint managing director. He will join on April 18.
(The Bookseller)

Gollancz
Is launching a new imprint, Gollancz Manga, through a deal with publisher Viz.
(The Bookseller)

Hit Entertainment
Chairman and chief executive Peter Orton will leave the company once it has been taken over by private equity firm Apax.
(The Guardian)

Hodder Education
John Hudson has joined as acting director of consumer education. He was previously publisher of BMJ Books and will take over the role until October.
(The Bookseller)

Institute of Physics
Named Dr. Robert Kirby-Harris chief executive officer effective April 1, replacing Dr. Julia King.
(Professional Publishing Report)

Lonely Planet
Katherine Leck, global publisher for guidebooks and maps and founder of the UK publishing business, will be leaving the company.

Graham Williams, export sales manager, has left the company.
(The Bookseller)

Macmillian
Has appointed Nick Stearn as art director of children’s fiction from March 21.
(The Bookseller)

Phaidon Press
Has recruited Tracy Smith to managing editor. She was previously at BBC Books.
(The Bookseller)

Primary Language Publications
Has appointed Gardners Books as distributor.
(The Bookseller)

Publications International
James Fox has been promoted to UK sales director.
(The Bookseller)

Simon & Schuster
Charlotte Robertson has joined from Pan Macmillian to become group sales director. She will start in June.
(The Bookseller)

T&F Informa
Chairman David Smith will be leaving the company.
(Professional Publishing Report)

North America

Audible Education
Has appointed Frances Himes Cairns as senior vice president. She was recently senior director for higher education at Apple.
(Publishers Lunch)

Bantam Dell
Has hired Paolo Pepe as executive cover art director, starting in May, overseeing jackets and covers for all of the Bantam and Dell imprints. Pepe takes over from Jim Plumeri, who will retire. Pepe was most recently executive art director for Pocket, Atria, Washington Square Press, Downtown Press and Folger Library.
(Publishers Lunch)

Buckle Down Publishing
Appointed Cindy Huber vice president of marketing. She joins the company from Riverdeep.
(Subtext)

Christian Science Monitor
Reviewer and books editor Ron Charles has left to take up a new position starting in April at the Washington Post, where he will be a senior editor and fiction critic.
(Publishers Lunch)

Educational Testing Service
Named Bob Block executive director of business development in its new market development division. He has served as a consultant to the company.
(Subtext)

The Gernert Company
Following the recent dissolution of agency Burnes & Clegg, Sarah Burnes will join on April 1.
(Publishers Lunch)

Harbor House
Is now handling its own distribution after three years with National Book Network.
(Publishers Weely)

PEN American Center
Andrew Proctor has been promoted to membership manager.
(Publishers Lunch)

Questia Media
Has appointed Linda Bessmer vice president of sales. She will be responsible for overseeing the institutional sales strategy to secondary schools. She was vice president of field sales for
Renaissance Learning.
(Book Monday)

Scholastic
Francie Alexander has been promoted to senior vice president for Scholastic Education and chief academic officer of Scholastic Inc.
(Publishers Lunch)

Simon & Schuster
In the children’s division, Dan Potash has been promoted to creative director.
(Publishers Lunch)

UK/Europe

Foyles
Tom Nind, formerly assistant manager of the academic section, has been promoted to store manager.

Assistant manager Anne McMillan now becomes project manager of the satellite store in the Royal Festival Hall.
(Publishing News)

In Memoriam

German publisher Karl Blessing passed away last week of kidney failure at the age of 63. Voted German Publisher of the Year by the German Book Association in 2004, he will be remembered for his elegance, charm and love of American writers.
(Publishers Weekly)

North America

Abebooks.com
Has appointed Richard Gavies public relations and publicity manager. He will be based in Canada.
(The Bookseller)

Aspect
This Japanese publisher has named Altair Book Scouts and Nicholas Smith as US scout for the English-language market.
(Publishers Lunch)

Bookspan
Linda Andersen will lead the new member marketing department and new product development.

Internet marketing now falls under Matthias Epp, who will also oversee Zooba.
(Publishers Weekly)

The Burnes & Clegg Agency
Has been dissolved.
(Publishers Weekly)

HarperCollins
Lynn Grady will become associate publisher for Morrow, HarperEntertainment and Eos. She was previously marketing director at Regan Books.

Kim Hadney will take Grady’s old post at Regan Books. She was most recently director of advertising and promotion at Dutton and Gotham.
(Publishers Lunch)

Has named Carrie Kania senior vice president and publisher of Harper Perennial and Harper trade paperback.
(Book Monday)

Jonathan Burnham is leaving Miramax Books to become head of the Harper imprint of the general books group.
(New York Post)

House of Anansi
Martha Sharpe, publisher, has resigned.
(Publishers Lunch)

Ingram
Will distribute for computer publisher O’Reilly as of this September, handling retail customer service, order-entry, and fulfillment.
(Publishers Lunch)

McGraw-Hill Companies
Is to acquire the marketing information company J.D. Power and Associates. The acquisition is expected to close in April.
(Book Monday)

Random House
Lee Wade is joining Anne Schwartz, where the two will form a new imprint, Schwartz & Wade Books. Wade will leave her position as vice president and creative director at Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.

Ann Kelley, who also left Simon & Schuster, will be associate editor for the new imprint.
(Publishers Weekly)

Scholastic
Seth Radwell, who oversaw the day-to-day operations of the marketing and editorial group at Bookspan, is leaving the company to run e-Scholastic, the online information and e-commerce division
(Publishers Weekly)

Shoemaker & Hoard
Jack Shoemaker’s publishing venture will become an imprint of the Avalon Publishing Group. Shoemaker will remain publisher of his imprint as well as becoming a vice president of Avalon. Trish Hoard will stay based in Washington, DC as an editor-at-large.
(Publishers Lunch)

Simon & Schuster
Dan Potash, executive art director at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, has been promoted to vice president and creative director to replace Lee Wade.
(Publishers Weekly)

St. Martin’s Press
Steve Cohen has been promoted to executive vice president and COO, adding the duties of Phil Schwartz who has retired. Some of his new responsibilities include overseeing SMP and Tor’s distribution business.
(Publishers Weekly)

In Memoriam
Long-time New England sales representative Horace Coward died on Tuesday, March 1, in Middletown, Connecticut. He was 85 years old.
(Publishers Weekly)

UK/Europe

Atlantic Books
Has promoted Louisa Joyner to editor and Louise Brice to senior rights executive.

Fran Owen has joined as publicity assistant.
(The Bookseller)

Aurum Press
Natasha Martin has joined to expand the non-fiction list. She was previously at Pan Macmillan.
(The Bookseller)

Bertrams
Adrian Stimpson, buying manager, is to leave the company.
(The Bookseller)

The Bookseller
Has promoted Aislinn McCormick to features writer.
(The Bookseller)

Borders
The former head of books at W H Smith, Cathy Ferrier, joins as commercial director, a newly created role. She will have overall responsibility for buying, inventory management and vendor relations.
(Publishing News)

The British Library
Has appointed Jackie Marfleet as head of reference and research.

Tony Llewelyn has joined as head of scientific, technical, and medical information.
(The Bookseller)

Chrysalis Books
Hannah Wilson has been appointed associate publisher of children’s trade books. She joins from DK.
(The Bookseller)

Duncan Baird Publishers
Has hired Grace Cheetham as senior commissioning/managing editor. She was previously at Murdoch Books.
(The Bookseller)

Faber
Donna Payne has joined as art director.
(The Bookseller)

HarperCollins
Caroline Michel, managing director and publisher of Harper Press, will become publisher of the new unnamed literary arm.

David Swarbrick, currently Collins sales and marketing director, will become group sales and marketing director.
(The Bookseller)

John Murray
Nikki Barrow has been appointed publicity director, succeeding Sam Evans, who is leaving the company.
(The Bookseller)

Lonely Planet
Global publisher for guidebooks and maps and the founder of its UK operation, Katharine Leck, is leaving the company.
(The Bookseller)

Michael Joseph
Clare Pollock joins as acting publicity director to cover Katy Nicholson’s position while she is on maternity leave.

Becke Packer joins as acting publicity manager.
(The Bookseller)

Midas Public Relations
Has recruited Ben Tisdall as senior account manager with particular responsibility for events and awards.

Amanda Rowland has joined as account manager.
(The Bookseller)

Ottakar’s
Simon Blacklock is now range director and Sue Scholes is range and promotions manager.

Andrew Walsh has become core range manager and Helen Dance becomes commercial manager.
(Publishing News)

Pan Macmillan
Phil Trump, a representative, has left the company.
(The Bookseller)

Penguin UK
Has promoted Jessica Jefferys to rights manager, responsible for translation rights across the adult divisions. She was previously senior rights executive.
(The Bookseller)

Random House
The audio division has appointed Zoe Howes as commissioning editor.
(The Bookseller)

Redhammer
Agent and author Peter Cox and political advisor Barbara Gorna have launched this new literary agency. Cox was previously vice president and part owner of International Literary Representation & Management, which is being merged with Redhammer.
(The Bookseller)

Resolute
James Dawson has launched this publishing consultancy company, specializing in production, sales, and marketing.
(The Bookseller)

Revolver Books
Has been launched by Revolver Entertainment. Sales will be run by Hi Marketing and distribution by GBS.
(The Bookseller)

The Royal Society of Medicine Press
Has appointed Aalia Oosman to marketing and sales assistant.

Hannah Wessely has been made editorial assistant.

Rebecca King becomes journals editorial assistant.
(The Bookseller)

Sainsbury
Book buyer Tim Bugbird has left the company.
(The Bookseller)

Tate Modern
Jane Cholmeley has left Books Etc. and joins as an assistant manager.
(The Bookseller)

North America

Advanced Marketing Services
Pam Morlett has been named director of adult proprietary publishing. She was category buyer and replaces Ann Ghublikian.
(Publishing Trends)

HarperCollins
Will consolidate cookbooks from William Morrow and HarperCollins under the direction of Harriet Bell, promoted to vice president and publisher. Starting in winter 2006, all of the company’s cooking titles will be published as William Morrow Cookbooks.

Publisher Susan Weinberg is leaving the company. Harper Morrow chief Michael Morrison will run the division until a replacement is found.
(Publishers Lunch)

Editor Mark Bryant is leaving the company.
(Publishers Weekly)

Olga Vezeris has left Harper Audio.
(Subtext)

Harry Abrams
Susan Enochs has been named director of marketing. She was director of sales and marketing for Monacelli Press.
(Publishing Trends)

Hylas Publishing
Herman Graf has joined as a general business consultant, overseeing trade sales and working with NBN. He will also oversee the catalogers and co-op operations as well as develop a school and library market base.
(Publishing Trends)

Klutz
Dave Griscom has joined as a national accounts manager (handling B&N, Borders & Wholesalers). He had been at Clocktower Press.
(Publishing Trends)

The New York Times
Pat Eisemann has been named assistant director of community affairs and media relations. Most recently she was the director of publicity at Scribner.
(Publishing Trends)

Pearson Education
Chief financial officer George Werner will move to the new position of group head of operations.
(Publishers Lunch)

Perseus Books
Will no longer distribute its books through HarperCollins, beginning September 1 in the US, and January 1 in Canada.
(Publishers Lunch)

Pflaum Publishing
Named Cullen Schippe executive in residence. He was previously vice president and publisher for McGraw-Hill’s Benziger division.
(Subtext)

Publishers Group West
Chris Mckenney, who had been executive vice president and COO, resigned from his position effective February 18th.
(Publishing Trends)

Publishers Weekly
Karen Holt has been named deputy editor. She joins from The Book Standard and she starts March 14.

Michael Coffey will become executive managing editor.
(Publishing Trends)

R.R. Donnelley
Named Glenn Richter executive vice president and chief financial officer. He was previously chief financial officer of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Kevin Smith will remain as chief financial officer until March 31, the end of the company’s first quarter, to expedite the transition.
(Subtext)

Random House
Jane von Mehren will depart her role as editor-in-chief and associate publisher at Penguin to become publisher of trade paperbacks for Little Random.

David Ebershoff, who was publishing director for trade paperbacks and the Modern Library, is becoming an editor-at-large
(Publishers Weekly)

Scholastic
Ed Monagle, former senior vice president of finance, has left the company.
(Publishing Trends)

TFH Publications
Christopher Reggio, who was the associate publisher and director of adult trade publishing at Readers Digest, is leaving to become publisher of books at this pet book publisher based in New Jersey.
(Publishing Trends)

Thomson Media
Is completing its transition from Thomson Corp. to its new owner, Investcorp, and has changed it name to SourceMedia. SourceMedia’s chairman and CEO is James Malkin.
(Book Monday)

Thunder Bay Press
Pam Morlett has been named publisher.
(Publishing Trends)

UK/Europe

Penguin
Chairman Dennis Stevenson has resigned.
(Publishers Lunch)

Profile
Anthony Cheetham will join as editor-at-large.
(Publishing News)

Random House
Has hired Annari van der Merwe to fill the newly created position of publishing director at Random House in South Africa. Van der Merwe will establish an imprint, Umuzi, to publish South African writers.
(The Book Standard)

Reed Elsevier
Morris Tabaksblat is retiring from his position as chairman. His successor Jan Hommen will leave the position of chief financial officer of the Philips electronics group in May to join the company.
(The Guardian)

Transworld
Has appointed Natalie Higgins as press & public relations manager effective from March 29. She joins from Headline.

Sam Jones has been promoted to the position of press officer, replacing Helen Wilson.
(Publishing News)

WH Smith
John Warren, who joined the board in 2000, will leave the company at the end of this month. His successor is Alan Stewart.
(The Guardian)

North America

HarperCollins
Lee Boudreaux, who recently left Random House, will join Ecco as an editor.

The Fourth Estate imprint is closing and Christopher Potter, co-publisher at Fourth Estate US as well as associate publisher and editor-in-chief at Harper Press, will be leaving the company.
(Publishers Lunch)

The McArdle Printing Company
Lisa Arsenault has been named president of BNA Inc. She was vice president of sales and, until a replacement is found, will hold concurrent positions.
(Professional Publishing Report)

Publishers Communication Group
Has appointed Janet Fisher to the newly developed position of senior publishing consultant. She comes from Ingenta, where she served as director, US client management.
(Society of Scholarly Publishing)

Putnam
Carole Baron, president, is leaving the company as well as vacating her role as Dutton president. Susan Petersen Kennedy, currently president of Penguin Group U.S., will oversee Putnam while Dutton publisher Brian Tart will take over as Dutton president.
(Publishers Weekly)

Scholastic
Kyle Good is joining as vice president for corporate communications and media relations. Most recently, she was director of communications for the Children’s Defense Fund’s New York office.
(Publishers Lunch)

Sourcebooks
Susan Bain has been hired as national account manager, trade. She was at Kensington most recently.

Jennifer Downey has been hired as national accounts manager for independent and educational bookstores.
(Publishers Lunch)

Sterling
Has hired Patricia Gift as editorial director, overseeing the Hearst, custom publishing, and co-editions groups, starting March 10. She will also acquire for the adult list, focusing on mind/body/spirit books. (Publishers Lunch)

T&F Informa
Christine Lamb has been appointed director of events in the new events and media business unit. In her new position, she will develop new events, e-learning and professional development products from Taylor and Francis’s books, journals and other Informa divisions.
(Society of Scholarly Publishing)

Walter de Gruyter
Eckart Scheffler will retire on June 30 after more than 33 years as vice president and general manager, but will serve as a consultant until the end of June 2005.

As of March, Patrick Alexander, who is presently publishing director, will be in charge of Walter de Gruyter, in New York.
(Society of Scholarly Publishing)

The Wicks Group
Will acquire EMC/Paradigm Publishing.
(Publishers Weekly)

In Memoriam
Elton Stephens, founder and chairman emeritus of EBSCO Industries, died this month at the age of 93.
(Professional Publishing Report)

UK/Europe

Allison & Busby
Has appointed Susie Dunlop as publishing director to replace David Shelley. Dunlop moves from Compass where she was national accounts director. Shelley will remain involved in a new honorary editorial advisory committee, which also includes Peter Day and Alan Jessop.
(Publishing News)

BCA
Has promoted Keshini Naidoo, previously an associate buyer, to literary fiction buyer.
(The Bookseller)

Borders
Julien Esposito will join as senior children’s buyer.
(The Bookseller)

Chrysalis Books Group
Peter Lee has returned to his position as export sales manager.
(The Bookseller)

DK
Publisher Christopher Davis will be retiring this year.

Managing director Andrew Welham is stepping up to deputy managing director of Penguin UK, leaving his current position.
(The Bookseller)

Editions du Panama
This new publishing house has been formed. Four out of the five executives are former Seuil executives; the new managing director is Damien Serieyx, formerly Seuil commercial director; Brigette Morel was in charge of children’s books; Sabine Louali was head of rights for Seuil images; and Marc Grinsztajn was a non-fiction editor for La Martiniere. All hold similar posts at this new company.
(The Bookseller)

HarperCollins
A new unnamed division has been created that will include the Harper Press imprints, currently part of the General Books division. The Fourth Estate imprint, closing in the US, will continue to publish under that name as part of the new division.

John Bond, group sales and marketing director, will become the managing director of the new division when the changes take place in mid-March.

Bond’s replacement as sales and marketing director will be David Swarbrick who has been performing the same role for Collins.
(Publishing News)

Lasgo Chrysalis
Has promoted Deon Hibbert to the book division’s departmental administrator for books.
(The Bookseller)

Orion
Amanda Harris will move from Simon & Schuster to become senior commissioning editor for non-fiction on March 7. Harris will focus on commissioning self-help, health and TV and media-related titles.
(Publishing News)

Paul Mould Publishing House
Has appointed Zoë Farmer as product manager.
(The Bookseller)

Penguin
Elaine McQuade, previously marketing and publicity director for Puffin, will now be consumer development director across the entire Penguin Group.

Adele Minchin and Kirsten Grant will be the heads of the publicity and marketing at Puffin, respectively.
(Publishing News)

Phaidon Press
Is to launch its new and first children’s list this summer. The children’s titles will focus on art and design.
(The Bookseller)

Prepress Projects
Has promoted Lindsey Williams to books production manager.

The journals division has appointed Lucy Harrier to senior production editor and Melanie Johnstone and Rhiannon Miller to production editors.
(The Bookseller)

Random House
Otto Penzler is to start a new list to be published under the Hutchinson imprint with the by-line “Otto Penzler Books”, and subsequently by Arrow in paperback. He will hold the title of consultant editor. The first publisher to sign on for the list is Harcourt in the USA. Anthony Cheetham, acting as a consultant to both Random House and Otto Penzler, arranged the contract.
(Publishing News)

Simon & Schuster
Macmillan’s Kate Manning will join as children’s sales director.
(The Bookseller)

North America

Adams Media
Kim Sorrell will join next month as key accounts manager, including responsibility for relationships with Baker & Taylor, Ingram, and Amazon. She was a special sales manager at Random House.
(Publishers Lunch)

Advanced Marketing Services
Michael D. Molina has been hired as executive vice president of human resources. He was previously at Gateway Computer.
(Publishers Lunch)

Bookspan
Editor-in-chief Brigitte Weeks is leaving as part of a corporate restructuring.
(Publishers Lunch)

Buckle Down Publishing
Appointed Thomas Emrick vice president of product development. He joins the company from Centre Point Learning, a secondary school science publisher that he founded.
(Subtext)

DK
Carl Raymond has been promoted to publishing director of adult books. He had been director of marketing.
(Publishers Lunch)

HarperCollins
Susan Friedland has left the company and will not be replaced.
(Publishers Weekly)

Lisa Gallagher has been promoted to publisher for the William Morrow, HarperEntertainment and Eos imprints.
(Publishers Lunch)

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Will launch LB Kids, a new imprint aimed at the mass merchandise and specialty market channels. It will be headed up by the trio of publisher David Ford and associate publishers Megan Tingley and Bill Boedeker. Executive editor Liza Baker is developing many of the novelty and tie-in titles, but other editors are doing books for the imprint as well.
(Publishers Weekly)

Lonely Planet
Has hired Brice Gosnell as regional publisher manager for the Americas. He was associate publisher at Frommer’s.
(Publishers Lunch)

Media Bay
Greg Voynow has joined the company’s digital audio division serving as vice president of content acquisition.
(Publishers Lunch)

MNS Publicity
Stephanie Marshall, Gwen Nappi, and Sandy Schulz, all former Regnery publicists, have started this new company that will handle overflow on other houses’ conservatives titles.
(Publishers Weekly)

PLATO Learning
Named Michael Morache president and chief executive officer. He joins from Pearson Education Technologies (now Pearson Digital Learning), where he was president.

David Smith, current acting president and chief executive officer, will become executive chairman.

Thomas Hudson, who had served as interim chairman, will be made leading director of the board.
(Subtext)

Random House
Jennifer Hershey will join as of March 14 where she will be editorial director. She has held the same position at Putnam for the last three years.
(Publishers Lunch)

Scholastic
Named Dr. Eunice Greer director of content for professional development. She will oversee all content development for the Scholastic Red professional development unit. Greer was most recently senior research analyst at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, DC.
(Subtext)

Time Warner Book Group
Nora Rawlinson, former editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly, has been named to the newly created position of vice president, library services.
(Publishers Weekly)

UK/Europe

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