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Robert Thomson Named CEO of News Corp. Publishing Group
News Corp. confirmed Monday morning that Robert Thomson, Dow Jones editor-in-chief and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal since 2008, will become the CEO of the new publishing entity that News Corp. is spinning off from its entertainment assets next year.
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Authors on the Air December 3, 2012: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb will be on Tavis Talks for Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Random House, 978-1400067824).
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Notables of 2012
Along with E.L. James, PW's Publishing Person of the Year, we honor these notable people who changed the publishing world in 2012.
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E.L. James: PW's Publishing Person of the Year
The level of the success of the 50 Shades trilogy, the speed with which it achieved that success, and the fact that it was launched in an untraditional manner, led us to select its author as the most significant player on the publishing stage this year.
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Authors on the Air November 30, 2012: 'The Right Stuff'
The Right Stuff (Picador, 978-0312427566) will be discussed in the "Science Friday" Book Club, featuring an appearance by Chuck Yeager.
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Authors on the Air November 29, 2012: Howard Bloom
Howard Bloom will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for The God Problem: How a Godless Cosmos Creates (Prometheus, 978-1616145514). After the segment airs, listen here.
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Ingram Adds to Leadership of Library Group
Ingram Content Group has promoted one, and hired another, in its library services division.
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Authors on the Air November 28, 2012: Kim Noble
Kim Noble, author of All of Me: How I Learned to Live with the Many Personalities Sharing My Body (Chicago Review Press, 9781613744703), will be on Anderson Live.
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Job Moves: November 28, 2012
Zoe Mackey has been promoted to online marketing and international sales manager at Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Samantha Dighton has joined D4EO Literary Agency as agent, based in Washington, D.C.
Chloe Perkins has joined the Simon Spotlight team as editorial assistant.
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Crutcher New 'PW' Southern Correspondent
Paige Crutcher has been named Publishers Weekly’s southern correspondent. A graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, Crutcher has written extensively about the book scene in her home town of Nashville as a freelance writer. She also served as a columnist for Authorlink.com. Crutcher will serve as PW’s point person for news emanating from the south. She can be reached at pcrutcher@publishersweekly.com; phone number 615-319-1318.
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Authors on the Air November 27, 2012: Warren Buffett and Carol Loomis
Warren Buffett and Carol Loomis will be on The Daily Show for Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything 1966-2012 (Portfolio, 978-1591845737)
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Obituaries: Judy Rosenblatt, Anne Davis
Judy Rosenblatt, a long-time member of the Hachette Book Group sales team, died this past weekend of ovarian cancer.
Anne Davis, chief financial officer of Random House worldwide, died November 26 after a battle with cancer. She was 50. Davis joined Random House in 1995 as assistant controller and was named CFO in 2007.
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Job Moves: November 27, 2012
Anna deVries has been named senior editor at Picador. She has been in publishing for over 10 years, including seven years in the editorial department at Scribner.
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Authors on the Air November 26, 2012: Neil Young, Tim Ferriss
Neil Young will be on The Daily Show for Waging Heavy Peace (Blue Rider Press, 978-0399159466).
Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Chef (New Harvest, 978-0547884592), will be on The Brian Lehrer Show. After the segment airs, listen here.
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Obituary: Deborah Raffin, 59
Actress Deborah Raffin, who teamed with her husband Michael Viner in the mid-1980's to start Dove Books-on-Tape, died in Los Angeles late last week. She was 59.
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DIY Publishing Pioneer Milt Adams Dies
Milt Adams, a pioneer in DIY publishing and the founding publisher of Beavers Pond Press died Sunday in the Twin Cities.
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Authors on the Air November 20, 2012: Paul Tough
Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547564654), will be on Tavis Talks.
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Job Moves: November 20, 2012
Julianne Shapiro, junior digital content specialist at Library Journals LLC, is leaving at the end of the month to join the American Association of Advertising Agencies as its digital content manager.
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Authors on the Air November 19, 2012: David Murrow, Anne Lamott
David Murrow, author of What Your Husband Isn’t Telling You (Bethany House, 978-0-7642-1011-2) will be interviewed on Chris Fabry Live!
Anne Lamott, author of Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers (Riverhead, 978-1594631290), was on NPR's "Morning Edition." Listen to the segment here.
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