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Dallanegra-Sanger Heading to Macmillan Children’s
Joy Dallanegra-Sanger will join Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group in the newly created role of senior v-p, director of marketing. Dallanegra-Sanger will start at Macmillan on May 4, reporting to Macmillan Children’s president Dan Farley.
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Sales Changes at Candlewick
John Mendelson, director of trade sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Boston, is crossing the river to take on the newly created position of senior v-p of sales and digital initiatives at Candlewick Press in Somerville, Mass., starting May 18.
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Rodeen Literary Open for Business
Children’s book agent Paul Rodeen, who learned his craft as assistant to George Nicholson at Sterling Lord Literistic for three years, before opening an SLL Chicago satellite office four years ago, has opened his own literary agency. Rodeen Literary Management, headquartered in Chicago, will represent both veteran and aspiring children’s book authors and illustrators.
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Esther Margolis
When I meet Esther Margolis at her Newmarket Press office—crammed with books and papers and marked-up screenplays stacked against one wall— in midtown Manhattan, it's early January and the industry is in a panic—panic about layoffs, cutbacks, the reorganization at Random House. Still, Margolis seems unfazed by the doom and gloom.
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Alex Clark
These days, we expect news to travel nearly as fast as it happens. But if, as Ezra Pound said, “literature is news that stays news,” where does the old-fashioned literary quarterly fit in with our fast-paced world, where even literature is expected to keep up (think of online publications like DailyLit and PoetryDaily, which deliver a new immortal text each day)? One answer can be ...
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Comings and Goings Archive
A list of publishing professionals who have recently changed companies providing their new contact information.
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Industry Veteran’s Faith Journey Leads to New Role at CBPA
For Cliff Knighten, recently named the new full-time executive director of the Catholic Book Publishers Association (CBPA), the position is not just a job.
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Steve Potash
Back in the early 1980s, Steve Potash—founder, president and CEO of OverDrive Inc., a digital services, media and distribution company—was a technology-minded lawyer in Cleveland, trying to figure out how to automate his law practice by digitizing his reference books and legal forms. “Why can't we make this stuff electronic?” Potash says in an interview looking back over...
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50 Under 40: Ben Greenberg
After a tumultuous few weeks in publishing, Grand Central editor Ben Greenberg's outlook on the business of books is both old school and a little refreshing. Though Greenberg is a young editor at a publishing house that's doling out bonuses instead of pink slips this holiday season, his take on the industry is one that bears repeating: “As long as there are people who want to read, and pe...
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PW's Person of the Year 2008: Amazon's Jeff Bezos
For the first time, 'PW' chooses a bookseller for its Person of the Year. Love him or hate him, Jeff Bezos has had an enormous impact on the business.
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PW’s Person of the Year: Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos has been stirring things up in the book business ever since he launched Amazon.com 14 years ago, and this past year has been no exception. During the year, Amazon acquired Audible and AbeBooks, expanded BookSurge, saw sales of the Kindle (and Kindle titles) soar and managed to keep book sales growing at double-digit rates.
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50 Under 40: Jonathan Yaged
It's only fitting that the publisher of books about (and by) pop sensations like the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus—not to mention the megapopular High School Musical franchise—has a musical connection of his own. Well before publishing was on his radar, Jonathan Yaged, v-p and U.S. publisher at Disney Book Group, was the business manager for the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.
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50 Under 40: Sara Rosen
Ask Sara Rosen what the biggest influence on her publishing career has been and she'll probably say parties. Rosen, 35, is senior v-p, marketing and publicity, and associate publisher of the inventive and socially minded art, photography and culture publisher powerHouse Books. And parties of one kind or another have been very useful to her.
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David Hyde
Even before he got into book publicity, David Hyde liked controlling the story. As a senior at Bard College he told classmates he was going into marketing, though he didn't exactly know what marketing was. “I felt it was best to have one story and stick to it,” he says, leaning back in his chair in the comfortable office he now has at DC Comics, where he is v-p of publicity.
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Paul Levitz Talks Digital Comics
DC Comics—with the recent launch of its first motion comic, an animated adaptation of Alan Moore and David Gibbons’s Watchmen available from iTunes, and the one-year anniversary of its Zuda Web comics site approaching —has taken some significant steps into the digital world. So what exactly is DC's philosophy toward digital content? PW Comics Week talked with DC Comics president Paul Levitz to find out.
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PW Talks With Jamie Kornegay
Mississippi is a foreign culture,” says Jamie Kornegay, owner of Turnrow Book Company, located deep in the Mississippi delta in Greenwood. He is, technically speaking, a foreigner himself, having been born in Memphis in 1975. He was then raised over the border in Batesville, Miss., a 30-minutes drive from Oxford, home to Faulkner and numerous other literary lights.
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PW Talks With Rich Kallman
Richard Kallman has worked at Bookazine, the independent wholesaler started by his grandfather and great uncle, since he was 17. “I graduated high school on a Thursday and started working on Friday,” says Kallman, who just turned 40. Jokingly referring to his on-the-job training as the “University of Bookazine,” he says, “I did everything, from working on the loadi...
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Dan Didio Talks Final Crisis and the Future
DC's Senior VP and Executive Editor Dan Didio talks about Final Crisis, this year's mega-event for the DC characters.
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Eric Obenauf and Eliza Jane Wood: Indie publishers in the Midwest
Far from the cubicles of corporate Manhattan publishing, Eric Obenauf, 26, and Eliza Jane Wood, 28, run a publishing outfit called Two Dollar Radio out of their home in Granville, Ohio. The husband and wife sport tattoos of the company logo on their wrists. They put photos of their two-year-old daughter, Rio, and their dogs, Hoon and Scarlet, in their book catalogues.
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Wild West Bookseller
The same indomitable pioneering spirit that won female Wyomingites the right to vote in 1869—a half-century before the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920—undoubtedly contributed to 27-year-old Torrie Rice's decision four years ago to sell books in the rural southeastern Wyoming town of Wheatland.
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