Publishers Lunch

Today's Meal

People, Etc.

At Sourcebooks, Stephanie Lewis has been promoted to business data manager; Drew French has been promoted to sales data associate.

Nick Lindsay has been promoted to director of journals and open access for MIT Press.

Sarah Baline will join Catapult, Counterpoint Press, and Soft Skull Press as events coordinator starting August 14. Most recently, she was events coordinator for East City Books in Washington, D.C.

At Random House Children's, Shay Brown has been promoted to production coordinator and Alice Rahaeuser has been promoted to production supervisor.

At Ingram Content Group: Tricia Racke Bengel has joined as library sales and services manager for Ingram Library Services (she was assistant director at Nashville Public Library). Anne Ugarte has joined Perseus Distribution and Ingram Academic Services as client relations manager. Andrew McGarrity becomes director of digital solutions for Tennessee Book Company, following their acquisition of teaching and learning platform Thrivist, which he founded. As part of that acquisition, Derrick Greer is now senior manager of customer success.

In promotions, Catherine Robinson has moved over to marketing team as product marketing manager. Johanna Hynes moves up to manager, sales, for Ingram Publisher Services, continuing to sell to independent bookstores in the Midwest, and Robert Barnard is now senior manager of application development for the IT department.

Forthcoming
Hillary Clinton's forthcoming book will be titled What Happened, now set for publication on September 12. Originally announced as a book of essays it has evolved into a "full memoir." Clinton promises in the introduction, "I've often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now, I'm letting my guard down."

Bookselling
Hudson Group opened 3 new stores and 3 new kiosks at the Tucson International Airport, including their second Ink by Hudson concept store, testing a less-terrible bookstore format that looks more like, well, a bookstore. (The first one opened a year ago at the Dallas airport.) The Ink store "features a contemporary style and indie-inspired design and ethos" and "built around a core offering of books...conceived as a cultural hub to the airport community." The 1,000-square-foot stores "features a curated assortment of bestsellers, small press titles, classics, prizewinners, local favorites, and a unique selection of toys, stationery, fashion, artwork, travel essentials and indulgences."