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Job Moves: Tuesday, May 4
Daniel Lee has joined Firebrand Technologies as content chief and head of Firebrand's new content services group. Lee was, most recently, director of digital content development at Harvard University Press, and prior to that was the digital publishing manager at Yale University Press. Firebrand offers various software programs that help publishers track their titles digitally throughout the supply chain.
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Job Moves: May 3, 2012
Edward Benitez has joined Random House as director, Spanish-language sales.
Peter Hubbard has been promoted to executive editor at William Morrow. He has been with the company since 2004. -
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Mary Pomponio has been promoted to publicity manager at Plume books. Pomponio, who's been at Plume four years, has worked on campaigns for such books as Baseball Prospectus and This is Your Brain on Music.
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People: Week of 5/3/10
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Defendini to Join Open Road Integrated Media
Pablo Defendini, producer at Tor.com, an experimental Macmillan website/publishing venture focused on launching original science fiction, fantasy prose and Web comics, is leaving the company to take a job at Open Road Integrated Media.
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Weber to B&N; Barksdale Joins Tuttle; more.
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Barton Heading Realigned Oxford University Press
Tim Barton has been named to head a restructured Oxford University Press
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Rich Leaving 'NYT' Publishing Beat
Times publishing reporter Motoko Rich will start covering the economy next month.
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Van Metre Named Publisher at Abrams
Following former publisher Howard W. Reeves's move to become editor-at-large earlier this year, Abrams has announced that Susan Van Metre will become v-p and publisher for Abrams Books for Young Readers and Amulet Books, effective immediately. Senior editor Tamar Brazis, who has edited books including Laura Numeroff's Jellybeans picture book series, is being promoted to executive editor. Van Metre hopes to build on Abrams' strengths, as well as take a fresh look at the younger end of the list.
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Safro Joins Twelve; Querio to Sorucebooks; more.
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Obituary: Sid Fleischman
Author Sid Fleischman died March 17 in his home in Santa Monica, Calif., at the age of 90. Fleischman won the Newbery Medal in 1987 for his novel The Whipping Boy, and wrote more than 50 books for children, as well as screenplays and adult fiction and nonfiction. His first children's book, Mr. Mysterious & Company, was published in 1962, and his most recent was The Dream Stealer (Greenwillow, 2009). Fleischman was a National Book Award finalist in 1979 for Humbug Mountain. He also received a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
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Besser to Head Putnam Books for Young Readers
Penguin Young Readers Group has announced that, effective April 12, Jennifer Besser will join the publisher as v-p and publisher of G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, a position previously held by Nancy Paulsen, who is launching an eponymous imprint with Penguin.
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Shar to B&N; Stein to Paris Review; more
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Marketing Staff Changes at Macmillan Kids
The Macmillan Children's Publishing group, which was streamlined in late 2008 as part of a larger company-wide restructuring, has a new hire and several promotions in its marketing department, moves that have been announced by Joy Dallanegra-Sanger, senior v-p, director of marketing. Liz Hartman has joined the company in the newly created position of executive director, publicity and institutional marketing. Hartman will oversee publicity and school and library marketing for all Macmillan Children's Publishing imprints.
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Yaged to Leave Disney
Jonathan Yaged, v-p and U.S. publisher of the Disney Book Group, has been named chief operating officer of House Party, a consumer activation and experiential marketing company. Yaged has been with Disney since 2000, when he joined as director of business affairs.
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On the Move in Children's Publishing
People announcements in the children's book world.
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