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Authors on the Air August 1, 2012: Charles Yu, Fred Guterl
Charles Yu will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for his short story collection Sorry Please Thank You (Pantheon, 978-0307907172).
Fred Guterl will be on The Daily Show for The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It (Bloomsbury, 978-1608192588).
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Authors on the Air July 31, 2012: Dambisa Moyo, Joseph Stiglitz
Dambisa Moyo, author of Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World (Basic Books, 978-0465028283), will be on The Daily Show.
Joseph Stiglitz, author of The Price of Inequality (W.W. Norton, 978-0393088694), will be on Tavis Talks.
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Books-A-Million Hires Development Analyst
Following the decision by the Anderson family to drop its plans to buy back all of the shares in Books-A-Million that it does not own, the bookstore chain has hired Michel Rediker as corporate development analyst.
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Job Moves: July 31, 2012
Edmund Salt has been appointed president of Whitehots, the Canadian library services provider. He was previously v-p, sales and marketing.
Hannah Buchsbaum has joined Little Simon as associate editor. She was most recently at Disney Press.
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Job Moves: July 30, 2012
Crown has made the following promotions in its subsidiary rights deparment:
Karin Schulze is now associate director, foreign sales.
Courtney Snyder is assistant director, domestic rights.
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Authors on the Air July 30, 2012: Bridget Siegel, Joan Rivers
Bridget Siegel will be on MSNBC's Morning Joe on July 31 for her novel Domestic Affairs (Weinstein Books, 978-1602861640).
Joan Rivers will be on The Colbert Report for I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me (Berkley, 978-0425248300).
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Authors on the Air July 27, 2012: Shawn Lawrence Otto, Andrew Zolli, Nikki Stern
Shawn Lawrence Otto, author of Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America (Rodale, 978-1605292175), will be on NPR's "Science Friday." Also on "Science Friday," Andrew Zolli will talk about his book Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back (Free Press, 978-1451683806).
Nikki Stern, author or Hope in Small Doses (Humanist Press), will be a guest on WPRR's Reality Check at 3 p.m. CST.
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Tracking Amazon: 'Daily Show' Propels Stiglitz
On July 25, Joseph Stiglitz appeared on The Daily Show for his book The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (W.W. Norton). On July 26, the book saw significant increases on Amazon: it jumped to #57 from #544 in print and, for Kindle, #215 from #1,121.
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Authors on the Air July 26, 2012: Christina Steinorth
Christina Steinorth, author of Cue Cards for Life: Thoughtful Tips for Better Relationships (Hunter House, 9780897936163) will be on 1380 WNRI with host John Holt July 26, at 7:00 pm EST.
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Job Moves: July 26, 2012
Nellie Kurtzman will join Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as v-p of marketing. She was most recently director of digital and trade marketing at Disney/Hyperion.
Karen Wojtyla has been promoted to v-p, editorial director of Margaret K. McEldrerry Books. She was formerly editorial director.
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Authors on the Air July 25, 2012: Joseph Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz, author of The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (W.W. Norton, 978-0393088694), will be on The Daily Show.
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Job Moves: July 25, 2012
Meg Leder has been promoted to executive editor at Perigee Books. She has been with Perigee since 2005.
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Authors on the Air July 24, 2012: David Niose, James Fallows, Pat Cooper
David Niose, author of PW Pick Nonbeliever Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 978-0230338951), will be on "The Cycle" on MSNBC.
James Fallows, author of China Airborne (Pantheon, 978-0375422119), will be on The Colbert Report.
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F+W Hires Former Amazon Exec to Head E-commerce Unit
F+W Media has announced the hiring of Lucas Hilbert, formerly senior product manager, marketing and merchandising at Amazon, to the position of v-p of eCommerce.
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Job Moves: July 24, 2012
Tina Bennett has joined WME's New York literary division. She was previously a director at Janklow & Nesbit.
At SelectBooks, Molly Stern has joined as assistant editor and Lauren Cantos has joined as assistant marketer.
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Authors on the Air July 23, 2012: Jo Nesbo
Jo Nesbo was on NPR's Morning Edition. Listen here.
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Job Moves: July 23, 2012
Sarah Beatty has joined Hachette Book Group as publicist for the Hachette Nashville division. She was previously publicity assistant for the Basic Books imprint of Perseus Books Group.
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Authors on the Air July 20, 2012: Chris Cooper
Chris Cooper, author of Run, Swim, Throw, Cheat: The Science Behind Drugs in Sport (Oxford University Press, 978-0199581467), will be on NPR's "Science Friday."
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Job Moves: July 20, 2012
Mary Ann Naples has been appointed chief of business development to lead development of exclusive e-book partnerships at Zola Books. She was previously v-p of business development at OpenSky.
Also at Zola Books, Seale Ballenger is now head of marketing and publicity. He was previously v-p and group publicity director at HarperCollins.
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