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Aaron Priest Turns Agency Over to Mitch Hoffman
After more than five decades heading his eponymous literary agency, Priest has announced his retirement, with Hoffman (pictured), a senior agent, taking over as owner and president at the firm.
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U.K. Creative Industries Call for an AI Regulatory Framework
In a new report on the harm done to creative professionals by generative AI development, the Society of Authors and other trade associations are demanding new regulations to compel tech giants to respect copyright and remunerate authors and artists.
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Bob Miller Starts Bookswork Press
Miller, who has departed as CEO of Phaidon after just over a year, envisions his new book and creative development company as a place “to develop ideas into great books.”
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S&S Confirms Limited Staffing Changes
Though the publisher denied reports of large-scale layoffs, it did confirm it had made a small number of staffing changes.
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Scout’s Honor: PW Talks with Danny Yanez
The new president of Franklin Siegal & Yanez discusses taking over the 50-year-old scouting agency, tracking TikTok trends, and navigating the international publishing landscape.
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Oni Press Taps Kickstarter Exec to Lead Business Strategy
Sam Kusek, who most recently served as the platform’s senior outreach lead, will oversee the independent comics publisher’s crowdfunding campaigns, as well as its extensive roster of licensing deals.
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S&S Alum Colin Shields Joins Lonely Planet
Shields, most recently VP and executive director of global digital and international sales at Simon & Schuster, has been appointed by the guidebook publisher to the newly created role of senior director of sales and marketing for North America.
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Kara Welsh Departs, Scott Shannon Up at Random House Publishing Group
Welsh, who has served as president of Ballantine Books Group since 2021, will leave RHPG after 25 years, effective March 31. Former Random House Worlds president Shannon has been named president of Ballantine Bantam Dell.
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Wiley Names Inaugural AI Chief
To accelerate its efforts to make more licensing deals with AI developers and other tech companies, Wiley has named Armughan Rafat to the newly created position of chief AI and data services officer.
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Two Longtime Tor Execs Retire
Patrick Nielsen Hayden, editor-at-large at Tor Publishing Group, and Linda Quinton, publisher and VP of Tor’s Forge Books imprint, have retired, effective January 5. Each spent nearly four decades at the SFF publisher.
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McGraw Hill Appoints New President and CEO
Former Vimeo CEO and Google exec Philip Moyer will succeed Simon Allen as head of the company starting February 9.
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Adam Zacharius Named Kensington President
In a move that ensures that Kensington Publishing will continue to be led by a member of the Zacharius family, the son of chairman and CEO Steven Zacharius has been appointed to help lead one of the country’s largest independent publishers.
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Ed Spade, Abigail Koons Join HBG in Top Spots
Spade (l.), a former executive at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and HarperCollins, has been named SVP for commercial operations at Hachette Book Group, while Koons, a longtime agent, has been appointed VP of subsidiary rights.
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Diane Roback to Step Down as ‘PW’ Children’s Book Editor
During her long career at the magazine, Roback oversaw the expansion of Publishers Weekly’s coverage of the children’s book market during a period when the sales of children’s books exploded.
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Poetry Foundation Staff Protest Program Cuts, Job Loss
Employees of the foundation and community members say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, goes against the organization’s mission, and are circulating a petition to retain the jobs of two staffers set to be laid off.
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S&S Australia Names New Managing Director
Jane Curry, who will take the helm of Simon & Schuster Australia and New Zealand January 19, succeeds Dan Ruffino, who announced his resignation last month. She is currently managing director of Sydney-based independent publisher Ventura Press.
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Hello Sunshine to Host Gen Z–Focused Book Club
The women-focused media and lifestyle company, headed by book club maven Reese Witherspoon, has teamed with luxury fashion brand Coach to launch Sunnie Reads, a community for Gen Z readers.
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Kerensa Cadenas Joins ‘PW’ as News Director
Cadenas, who previously served as editorial director for entertainment at Thrillist and has held editorial roles at New York magazine and Entertainment Weekly, will oversee Publishers Weekly’s news department.
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Breaking It Down: PW Talks with Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant
In Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press), coeditors and English professors Sinykin and Winant seek to redefine the technique as a way to make and understand arguments, with uses beyond literary studies.
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