PEOPLE Adam Miller has been named President and CEO of Joseph-Beth Booksellers. He has been VP, Retail Strategy at Ricoh for the last year following the departure of Mark Wilson. Mark Tauber joins Chronicle Books as Managing Director of a yet-to-be-named imprint. Launching Fall 2019, the new imprint will publish six to eight titles of…Continue Reading
PEOPLE David Rosenthal, Founder of now-closed Blue Rider Press, has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as Editor-at-Large. Nicole Vines Verlin joins Simon & Schuster in the new position of VP, Special Sales. She was previously Director, Special Sales, Mass Market and Export Sales at Sterling Publishing. Jimmy Iacobelli has joined Atria as Art Director, having previously…Continue Reading
PEOPLE At Atria, Lindsay Sagnette will join as VP, Editorial Director on September 10. She was previously Editorial Director for Fiction at Crown and helped launch both Hogarth and Sarah Jessica Parker for Hogarth. Caitie Hawthorne also joins Atria as Associate Editor for Julia Cheiffetz’s yet-unnamed imprint. She was most recently Researcher at NBC News….Continue Reading
PEOPLE As reported earlier, Ronald Boire is leaving his position as CEO of Barnes & Noble. Owner and founder Len Riggio will re-assume CEO functions until a successor is named. At Bloomsbury US, Cindy Loh has been promoted to the newly-created role of VP and Publishing Director of Consumer Publishing. Dr. Adam Black will join…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Mark Kuyper is leaving his position as Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, where he had served for a year. Previously he was President/CEO at the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. At HarperCollins, VP and Executive Editor Hugh Van Dusen is to retire on August 30. Lisa Erickson returned to the Crown Publishing…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Current company President, Sara Domville will leave F + W, where she worked for seventeen years. Betsy Groban left Houghton Mifflin Harcourt where she worked as Senior VP and Publisher of children’s books. Deb Brody, the current Executive Editor at William Morrow/HarperCollins, will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as Editorial Director (lifestyle and culinary) on July 18. Also, Cheryl…Continue Reading
