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Oni Press Taps Kickstarter Exec to Lead Business Strategy
Sam Kusek, who most recently served as the platform’s senior outreach lead, will oversee the independent comics publisher’s crowdfunding campaigns, as well as its extensive roster of licensing deals.
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S&S Alum Colin Shields Joins Lonely Planet
Shields, most recently VP and executive director of global digital and international sales at Simon & Schuster, has been appointed by the guidebook publisher to the newly created role of senior director of sales and marketing for North America.
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Kara Welsh Departs, Scott Shannon Up at Random House Publishing Group
Welsh, who has served as president of Ballantine Books Group since 2021, will leave RHPG after 25 years, effective March 31. Former Random House Worlds president Shannon has been named president of Ballantine Bantam Dell.
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Wiley Names Inaugural AI Chief
To accelerate its efforts to make more licensing deals with AI developers and other tech companies, Wiley has named Armughan Rafat to the newly created position of chief AI and data services officer.
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Two Longtime Tor Execs Retire
Patrick Nielsen Hayden, editor-at-large at Tor Publishing Group, and Linda Quinton, publisher and VP of Tor’s Forge Books imprint, have retired, effective January 5. Each spent nearly four decades at the SFF publisher.
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McGraw Hill Appoints New President and CEO
Former Vimeo CEO and Google exec Philip Moyer will succeed Simon Allen as head of the company starting February 9.
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Adam Zacharius Named Kensington President
In a move that ensures that Kensington Publishing will continue to be led by a member of the Zacharius family, the son of chairman and CEO Steven Zacharius has been appointed to help lead one of the country’s largest independent publishers.
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Ed Spade, Abigail Koons Join HBG in Top Spots
Spade (l.), a former executive at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and HarperCollins, has been named SVP for commercial operations at Hachette Book Group, while Koons, a longtime agent, has been appointed VP of subsidiary rights.
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Diane Roback to Step Down as ‘PW’ Children’s Book Editor
During her long career at the magazine, Roback oversaw the expansion of Publishers Weekly’s coverage of the children’s book market during a period when the sales of children’s books exploded.
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Poetry Foundation Staff Protest Program Cuts, Job Loss
Employees of the foundation and community members say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, goes against the organization’s mission, and are circulating a petition to retain the jobs of two staffers set to be laid off.
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S&S Australia Names New Managing Director
Jane Curry, who will take the helm of Simon & Schuster Australia and New Zealand January 19, succeeds Dan Ruffino, who announced his resignation last month. She is currently managing director of Sydney-based independent publisher Ventura Press.
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Hello Sunshine to Host Gen Z–Focused Book Club
The women-focused media and lifestyle company, headed by book club maven Reese Witherspoon, has teamed with luxury fashion brand Coach to launch Sunnie Reads, a community for Gen Z readers.
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Kerensa Cadenas Joins ‘PW’ as News Director
Cadenas, who previously served as editorial director for entertainment at Thrillist and has held editorial roles at New York magazine and Entertainment Weekly, will oversee Publishers Weekly’s news department.
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Breaking It Down: PW Talks with Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant
In Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press), coeditors and English professors Sinykin and Winant seek to redefine the technique as a way to make and understand arguments, with uses beyond literary studies.
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Reading Is Entertainment: PW Talks with Lissette Mendez
This year’s Miami Book Fair, which runs through November 23, is expected to draw more than 60,000 attendees. We talked with the fair’s executive director about its robust Spanish-language program, children’s offerings, and more.
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Bertelsmann Keeps It in the Family
Thomas Coesfeld, a grandson of Bertelsmann patriarch Reinhard Mohn, has been named to succeed Thomas Rabe as chairman and CEO of the German conglomerate, whose holdings include Penguin Random House, at the end of 2026.
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Another Top S&S Exec to Depart
As the search for a replacement for Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp continues, Dan Ruffino announced he will resign as head of S&S Australia December 12.
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AAR/SBL 2025: Mapping Modern Evangelicalism
Religion professor William J. Schultz tracks Evangelicalism in Colorado Springs.
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LBYR Overhauls Editorial Structure
Under the reorg, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has created two distinct editorial groups, one aimed at young readers and the second targeting older readers, and given VP and editor-in-chief Alvina Ling her own imprint.
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