Trade

Neem Tree Press has appointed Alison Savage to the newly created role of chief operating officer, as well as hiring Cecilia Bennett as senior editor and Yasmeen Doogue-Khan as marketing and PR executive. 

Footnote Press has launched a marketing campaign for Hannah Silva’s memoir My Child, the Algorithm, publishing on 20th July 2023 featuring an AI text generator. 

Needle by Patrice Lawrence, published by Barrington Stoke, has won the prize for the 2023 Little Rebels Award for Radical Children’s Fiction.

Penguin Random House US has reportedly initiated a raft of layoffs as well as long-time staff taking up its voluntary separation offer.

Waterstones’ focus ahead of the autumn and Christmas peak season is on “last Blue Yonder developmental sprints” to ensure the new stock distribution technology is up to speed, chief operating officer Kate Skipper told The Bookseller. 

Creative Access research has revealed the lack of progress for DI&E (diversity, inclusion and equality) in publishing.

Amazon is planning to create 2,000 jobs in the north-east with the opening of a new £450m fulfilment centre featuring three floors of Amazon Robotics technology.

A petition has been launched calling on CILIP, the libraries and information association, to reinstate the Kate Greenaway medal after renaming it The Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration. 

Alice Swan has been promoted to children’s and YA associate publisher at Faber. She will be reporting to publisher Leah Thaxton. 

Scholastic UK has unveiled a special edition hardback boxed set of The Hunger Games series in anticipation of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes film release.