Industry Leadership
December 4, 2015 at 12:14 pm
NEW YORK—December 3, 2015—Global learning company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced the appointment of Ellen Archer as President of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade Publishing. Reporting directly to CEO Linda Zecher, Archer will drive the strategic growth and expansion of the Company's consumer publishing business – home to iconic properties, brands and authors from Curious…
December 2, 2015 at 2:16 pm
I’ve been hearing about the demise of book publishing since the first day I stepped through the doors of a publisher back in 1978. But here we are still, publishers like Little, Brown, with histories going back 100 and 200 years. What other American industry has companies still in existence after two centuries, evolving and…
November 30, 2015 at 2:49 pm
TORONTO—November 26, 2015—Rakuten Kobo Inc., a global leader in e-reading, today announced a change of leadership. President Michael Tamblyn will become Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Takahito (Taka) Aiki, who will remain involved in the company as Chairman, effective January 1, 2016. Tamblyn, who has been a member of the…
November 24, 2015 at 2:26 pm
European media giant Bertelsmann (BTGGg.F) is looking for a private equity partner to help it buy the rest of publisher Penguin Random House should co-owner Pearson (PSON.L) want a swift exit from the business, three sources told Reuters. Privately owned Bertelsmann controls 53 percent of the publisher of bestsellers such as the Fifty Shades series…
November 20, 2015 at 2:59 pm
President of Penguin Young Readers Group US, Don Weisberg, is leaving Penguin Random House at the end of the month to become president for Macmillan Publishers U.S. Penguin Random House announced the division’s senior v.p and associate publisher Jen Loja as Weisberg’s successor, who steps into the role of president for Penguin Young Readers effective…
November 19, 2015 at 2:47 pm
Pearson boss John Fallon faces a daunting task to arrest the decline of the world's biggest education publisher as it battles growing political and economic strife. Fallon has endured a rough ride since he took over in 2013, with a string of profit warnings marking his tenure, in an abrupt end to the steady growth…
November 18, 2015 at 2:45 pm
In this latest "What Is A Publisher Now?" interview we’re joined by Hélène Dennery, Pearson’s Managing Director for Western Europe and one of the continent’s most senior education publishers. Hélène’s interview follows her appearance on Publishing Technology’s "What Is A Publisher Now?" panel event at Frankfurt Book Fair, where we brought together a group of…
November 5, 2015 at 1:45 pm
WASHINGTON—November 5, 2015—The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) is very pleased to announce the opening of its first Washington, DC, office. The Association is undertaking this expanded presence in order to further its strategic goals of advocacy and collaboration with stakeholders in higher education, copyright, freedom of expression, scholarly communications, the humanities, and global…
November 3, 2015 at 2:09 pm
The freedom to publish, the recent attacks on publishers in Bangladesh and the entrance of giant technology firms from outside the industry were among issues raised by Richard Charkin, President of the International Publishers Association IPA) at the third Arab Publishers Conference in Sharjah this week. Alluding to the controversy over Saudi Arabia receiving full…
October 13, 2015 at 10:31 am
BOSTON and NEW YORK—October 12, 2015— Trajectory and The Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) are pleased to announce that Trajectory is the winner of BISG's 2015 Industry Innovation Award, presented at the Annual Meeting of Members in New York City. The award recognizes a company or individual who boldly re-imagines what publishing is and…
