Bennett, Simonoff Up at Janklow
by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 8/27/2007
Bennett, Simonoff Up at Janklow
Tina Bennett and Eric Simonoff have been promoted to directors at literary agency Janklow & Nesbit. Bennett reps authors Malcolm Gladwell, Laura Hillenbrand and others, while Simonoff counts Edward P. Jones and Jhumpa Lahiri among his clients.
Daniels to B&N
Jennifer Daniels has been named general counsel and secretary of the board of directors at Barnes & Noble. Daniels arrives from IBM, where she worked in the company’s legal department for the past 16 years.
Kieling Up at Bloomberg
Jared Kieling has been promoted from editorial director to publisher of Bloomberg. Also, Mary Ann McGuigan has been promoted from executive editor to editorial director.
Clarifications
To Sara Nelson’s August 20 editorial: Midpoint, a distributor, is a separate company from Beaufort Books, a publisher. Eric Kampmann is a 52% owner of Midpoint and owns 100% of Beaufort Books. Beaufort’s books are distributed by Midpoint.
The chart ranking the world’s largest publishers (Aug. 6) should have been called “The Livres Hebdo/PW Ranking of the Global Publishing Industry.” The project was initiated by Livres Hebdo, which retains the copyright.
