Publishing Trends

APRIL 8, 2024

Jen Schwabinger , VP and director, sales development is departing after 40 years with the company. Alison Martin is named SVP of customer solutions, analytics, projects, and strategy, and Jeanie Wood will report to her. She was previously director of Belknap Publishing at Harvard University Press. She was previously at Ecco.

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Publishing Trends

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Macmillan president, sales & marketing, Jennifer Gonzalez , has been named SVP publisher of Sourebooks children’s books. Yaniv Soha has joined Atria Books and Simon & Schuster as executive editor. He was previously executive director of 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center.

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Publishing Trends

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

PEOPLE At Penguin Random House , Roseanne Serra , VP and director of art and design and Paul Buckley , senior VP and executive creative designer have left Penguin Publishing Group. Alex Lu has joined Random House Children’s Books as editor for Random House Graphic , previously they were a contributing editor at First Second.

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Publishing Trends

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

PEOPLE Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch , is transitioning to the role of Chairman, and will be succeeded by Hachette UK CEO , David Shelley , who will take on both HBG and HUK roles. Richard Kiston , deputy CEO of Hachette UK, will be taking on the same role for Hachette Book Group. COO Joe Mangan has announced his retirement.

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Publishing Trends

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Jordan Bishop joins Random House Children’s Books as Digital Marketing Associate. Lisa Beech joins Nelson Books as Director of Publicity; previously, she was Associate Director of Publicity at WaterBrook & Multnomah. Erin Fitzsimmons joins Sourcebooks as Senior Art Director for Fiction. McElderry Books.

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 12, 2023

“If the acquiring editors of the imprint are bringing in projects that aren’t selling well enough as frontlist titles, chances are they will not backlist well. Independent bookstores only account for a small percentage of book sales. And that can be to the serious detriment of those books. An art director?

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Publishing Trends

MARCH 10, 2023

Chiwoniso Kaitano joins MacDowell as Executive Director, succeeding Interim Director Philip Himberg. Most recently she was Executive Director of global NGO Girl Be Heard. Nathan Rostron joins ZE Books as Interim Publishing and Marketing Director. Rucker was most recently Sales Director at Gibbs Smith.

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