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TRENDS (October 2004)
People
As
Fall sets in, there are many jobs that are being vacated,
created, and filled. Those leaving include Becky
Cabaza, Editorial Director at Three Rivers/Crown,
who is becoming a freelance editorial consultant. She
can be reached at (973) 280-2429 and by e-mail at bcabaza@hotmail.com.
... Susan Naythons, EVP Sales, is leaving PGW
to spend more time with her family. There are no immediate
plans to replace her. ... Stephanie Fierman,
Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Zagat,
has left the company. She may be reached at sfierman@hotmail.com.
Jon
Anderson, most recently at Penguin, has been
named VP Creative Director at Running Press.
... Allison Devlin, formerly of DK and
most recently of Little, Brown Books for Young
Readers has moved to Watson-Guptill as Marketing
Director. ... Jon Ackerman has been named Senior
National Accounts Manager for Motorbooks. He
was with Klutz Press.
Lisa Tomasello is stepping down as Director of Mass
Merchandise Sales at S&S to follow her husband,
who is relocating. However, she will take on the position
of Retail Marketing Manager. Anne Zafian, VP
Client Services at TW Books, will succeed her.
Publicity continues its volatility, with Seale Ballenger
moving to Morrow-Avon as Director of Publicity.
He held the same title at Atria Books. His former
Associate Director at Atria, Ben Bruton, will
follow him to Morrow. Bruton moved to Atria from Doubleday
in March 2004. Meanwhile, Scribner has named
Suzanne Balaban, who had been Morrow’s Assistant
Director of Publicity, to the position of Director.
Jennifer Slattery has joined Simon Spotlight
as Publicist for the new imprint. She comes from Penguin.
As previously reported: Kristina Peterson
has been named Workman’s Director of International
Publishing. She was most recently at S&S, but consulted
for Workman this summer.
Eileen Bertelli has gone to Barron’s Educational
as Sales Manager. She was most recently at Avery/Penguin.
New
York Observer publishing/media reporter Rachel
Donadio is moving over to The NYTBR in mid-October.
She will write and edit reported pieces, essays, and
interviews covering the book publishing world, along
with doing some review work.
Scholastic EVP and President of e-Scholastic Donna
Iucolano has left to become CEO of International
Masters Publishers (IMP) North America. Meanwhile,
Jack Perry has moved to Scholastic as VP Trade
Sales, reporting to Barbara Marcus. He was formerly
at Soucebooks. Ken Wright has been promoted
to VP, Associate Publisher and Jazan Higgins,
who has been consulting with Scholastic, has been appointed
to the newly created position of VP, Publishing Director.
Both will report to SVP, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher
Jean Feiwel.
Volker
Neumann will be leaving the Frankfurt Book Fair
at the end of December. The announcement came three
weeks before the start of the fair.
Leigh
Haber has joined Rodale full time as Executive
editor in the NY office, and will also serve as a Contributing
Editor to the company’s Men’s Health and Organic
Style magazines. Haber had been working for Rodale
as editor-at-large. Prior to that, she was at Hyperion.
George
Rubich, former CFO at Henry Holt, is re-entering
the publishing fray (more recently he’s been consulting
for The Wildflower Group) with Innova
Publishing (innovapublishing.com), which he defines
as “extreme makeover for books.” CDS is handling
distribution.
AuthorHouse, one of the “self-publishing services,”
has hired a board member as its new CEO. Bryan Smith
was in venture capital and had served as Chairman of
the board for AuthorHouse.
Anne
Garinger’s replacement as Project Coordinator of
the AAP is Tracy Kaufman. She may be reached
at (212) 255-0200 x262, or Tkaufman@publishers.org.
Midpoint
has just set up a California office headed by John
Teall, formerly of PGW. Another hire, Julie
Hardison, Marketing Director, will work out of its
Kansas City DC.
Promotions
Jim Chandler, Chief Commercial Officer of Ingram
Book Group, was named President and CEO succeeding
Mike Lovett, who moves to the parent company,
Ingram Industries. Peter Clifton, President
of Ingram International, will assume some of Chandler’s
current responsibilities.
Franklin Electronic Publishers announced that Elizabeth
Mackey has been promoted to the position of VP,
Business Development, in addition to her role as VP,
Content/Publisher Relations.
Rene
Alegria has been promoted to Publisher and Editorial
Director of the HarperCollins’ imprint, Rayo.
The imprint will undergo a major expansion with the
hiring of Raymond Garcia as Associate Publisher,
Michelle Dominguez as Senior Publicist, Clara
La Rosa as Editor, and the promotion of Andrea
Montejo to Editor.
October
Events
New York Is Book Country takes place October
2, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and October 3, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
at Washington Square Park and surrounding areas of New
York University’s campus. Art Spiegelman, Jamie
Lee Curtis, Jimmy Breslin, Gail Collins,
the “Daily Show” writers, Harold Evans,
Arnold Scaasi, Leslie Schnur, and many
more authors will be speaking during the two day fair.
•
AAP is sponsoring, “Introduction to Publishing”
October 21-22 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at its New York
Office. Speakers include Walker’s George Gibson,
literary agent Henry Dunow, Random’s Ilene
Smith and HarperCollins’ Jane Friedman.
AAP member cost, $345; non-member cost, $395. For information,
call (212) 255-0200 x262.
• The American Book Producers Association (ABPA) presents
“Making Books Happen: Book Producing Today” on October
26 at The Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park South. Topics
include “The Legal Picture,” “The Financial Picture,”
and “The Expanded Role of Branding in Publishing.” Panelists
include Walker Books’ George Gibson, publishing
veteran Jason Epstein, B&N’s Alan
Kahn, and the apparently ubiquitous Sam Tanenhaus.
Email office@apbaonline.org for
more info.
•
The NYT’s Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
begins his next season of interviews at the Small
Press Center on October 28, with E. L. Doctorow.
And this year the 17th Annual Independent and Small
Press Book Fair will be held Saturday, December
4th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, December 5th,
from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., instead of its usual March date.
All events take place at 20 West 44th Street. For more
information, email the Center at info@smallpress.org or
call 212.764.7021.
Duly
Noted
DM
News reports that the number of lifestyle magazines
published 2003-04 grew to 264 from 206, citing the National
Directory of Magazines published by Oxbridge
Communications. Directory Editor Deborah Striplin
attributed the 28% growth to a post-9/11 nesting trend.
Crafts is a booming category, with magazines in this
niche up 25% to 129. Golf titles were up 24% to 135.
And political science and politics magazines were up
23% to 128 titles. But management titles declined 25%
to 95 this year, from 127 in 2003. News magazines dropped
24% to 57. History magazines fell 23% to 128 titles,
from 166.
At 971 titles, college student and alumni publications
was the largest magazine category in 2004, follwed by
medicine, at 965 and religion/theology, at 724 titles.
The number of Internet-only magazines grew to 168 from
124 last year. The directory lists a total 18,821 titles,
of which 1,174 are new.
•
At BISG’s annual meeting, Executive
Director Jeff Abraham demonstrated that getting
all segments of this industry — much given to internal
squabbling — on the same page is not impossible. In
the presence of representatives from the ABA,
AAP, AAUP, PMA, Ingram,
B&T, B&N, BGI, Levy,
Amazon and any number of printers, publishers and
other acronyms (i.e., pretty much the entire industry),
he sought and gained approval for two of today’s most
contentious issues: a US industrywide adoption of the
Bookland EAN bar code by January 2007 (ultimately
discarding the less than efficient or sufficient UPC
code), and the conversion of ISBN’s from 10 to 13 digits.
And during the same two years that he’s been on the
job, he’s increased BISG’s membership by over 50%.
In
Memoriam
A
memorial service will be held for Sandy Richardson,
former editor and husband of St. Martin’s Publisher
Sally Richardson. The service will be held on
Wednesday, October 13th at 6 p.m. at the Century Club,
7 West 43rd Street, New York. Friends and colleagues
are welcome.
©2004
Publishing Trends
