02/10/2012 @ 12:00AM
BISG has appointed four new board members: Mark Bide, Kyusik Chung, Dan Cullen, and Sharon Lubrano.
02/10/2012 @ 12:00AM
Suze Orman, author of The Money Class: How to Stand in Your Truth and Create the Future You Deserve (Spiegel & Grau, 978-0812982138), will be on Tavis Smiley.
William Broad, author of The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards (Simon & Schuster, 978-1451641424), will be on NPR's Science Friday.
02/10/2012 @ 12:00AM
Amazon has appointed Jamie S. Gorelick as a director.
02/09/2012 @ 12:00AM
Desserted: Recipes and Tales from an Island Chocolatier (Down East Books, 978-0892729913) author Kate Shaffer will be the guest on MPBN’s new call-in radio show “Maine Calling” from 12:15-1pm, with host Keith Shortall. Listen live or hear the archive at Maine Calling.
02/07/2012 @ 12:00AM
Mark Weinstein has been hired as executive editor at Rodale. Previously, Weinstein served as senior editor at Skyhorse Publishing.
02/07/2012 @ 12:00AM
Eric Klinenberg, author of Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (Penguin Press, 978-1594203220), will be on The Brian Lehrer Show.
02/07/2012 @ 12:00AM
Citing a struggling economy, the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association announced yesterday that assistant director Kati Gallagher has been laid off.
02/07/2012 @ 12:00AM
John Turner Sargent, Sr. , who helped Nelson Doubleday Jr. turn Doubleday & Co. into one of the most powerful publishing entities of its time, died February 5. He was 87 years old.
02/06/2012 @ 12:00AM
Wyatt Mason has been named consulting editor at large for the Margellos World Republic of Letters, Yale University Press's series of literature in translation.
02/06/2012 @ 12:00AM
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will be on The View on February 7 for his children's book What Color is My World: The Lost History of African American Inventors (Candlewick Press, 9780763645649).
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NBCC winner Kathryn Schulz has been named the book critic at New York Magazine.
Jerome Rubin, who founded LexisNexis, was president of the Times Mirror book group and led the development of e-ink technology, and was also former chairman of the AAP, died last week.
Atlantic Books in flux among "poor backlist and export sales." From TheBookseller.
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