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  • PRHPS Logistics Head Valerie Van Delft to Retire in August

    Van Delft, the senior v-p of logistics at Penguin Random House, will retire this August, and Tracey Presley has been promoted to senior v-p of global transportation and logistics, effective immediately.

  • Disney Veteran Michael Paull Named RBmedia CEO

    RBmedia has appointed Michael Paull, former president of Disney's direct-to-consumer business, as its new chief executive officer, following what the company called “another year of record-breaking growth” in 2023.

  • Anjali Singh on Launching Her Own Literary Agency

    Singh, an agent at Ayesha Pande Literary and the former editorial director at Other Press, has worn many hats in her 30-year career in publishing. Now, at the helm of the Anjali Singh Agency, she's starting yet another professional chapter.

  • Remembering Stephen Rubin, with an Evening of Words and Music

    About 200 friends attended a memorial service on Thursday evening at New York’s Metropolitan Club to celebrate the memory of the influential publisher and noted opera buff, who died last October.

  • Alessandra Bastagli Tapped to Lead One Signal

    Bastagli will leave Astra House for One Signal on February 26, filling the role vacated by Julia Cheiffetz in January. Nicholas Ciani, previously a senior editor acquiring books across three imprints, has been promoted to executive editor at One Signal.

  • PRH Senior V-p of Distribution Vince Annoreno to Retire

    Annoreno, who has been with Penguin Random House for more than 35 years and oversaw the company's Westminster, Md.–based distribution operation, will retire on October 1, with Tina Ruppert tapped to succeed him.

  • Kirsty Melville Named CEO at Andrews McMeel Universal

    Melville has served as president and publisher of the company's publishing division for the better part of the past two decades, where she has overseen a period of significant growth.

  • Sabrina McCarthy Named President of Bloomsbury USA

    McCarthy joins the company from Ingram Publisher Services, where she has worked for eight years, most recently as v-p and general manager. She will take the helm of Bloomsbury USA in early April.

  • Tieshena Davis Named IBPA Board Chair

    The founding publisher and CEO of Publish Your Gift has been unanimously elected the next chair of the Independent Book Publishers Association's board of directors, effective July 1. She is the first person of color elected to lead the IBPA board.

  • Jonathan Stolper to Leave BookScan

    Jonathan Stolper, longtime head of BookScan, will leave the company by the end of the month. David Walter, BookScan client development executive director, will lead the U.S. books business following Stolper's departure.

  • A Note from the Editor

    A note from PW's editorial director, Jonathan Segura.

  • Praveen Madan Named CEO and Publisher at Berrett-Koehler

    Madan, a former chair of Berrett-Koehler's board of directors, comes to the publisher from Kepler's Books in Menlo Park, Calif., where he has been CEO since 2012, and where he cofounded the bookselling initiative Reimagining Bookstores.

  • PW Editorial Director Jim Milliot Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

    Jim Milliot, PW’s outgoing editorial director, has been awarded the first-ever Frederic G. Melcher Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades of work covering the publishing industry.

  • PW Notables 2023: Mitchell Kaplan

    An influential fixture in publishing since he founded the bookstore chain Books & Books in Miami in 1982, Kaplan has spent much of his year working as an activist, fighting against Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s Stop WOKE Act.

  • PW Notables 2023: Jonathan Karp

    Jonathan Karp took over as CEO of Simon & Schuster in May 2020 under the most challenging conditions. He has risen to the occasion—and then some.

  • PW Notables 2023: John Chrastka

    John Chrastka, founder and executive director of EveryLibrary, the nation’s only political action committee dedicated to supporting libraries, stepped up for the library community in 2023.

  • PW Notables 2023: Karen Torres

    Over her 36-year career, Karen Torres, longtime head of field sales and account marketing at Hachette Book Group, played a pivotal role in conceptualizing and executing sales and marketing campaigns for hundreds of blockbuster bestsellers.

  • PW Notables 2023: Monique Patterson

    The romance publishing veteran, who was tapped to helm the Tor Publishing Group’s new romance imprint, Bramble, in February, has made a top-tier publishing career out of finding and putting out romance novels across an impressive span of subgenres.

  • PW’s 2023 People of the Year: Valerie Koehler and Charley Rejsek

    'Publishers Weekly' is proud to recognize Valerie Koehler, owner of Blue Willow Bookshop in Houston, and Charley Rejsek, CEO of BookPeople in Austin, as our 2023 People of the Year.

  • Little, Brown's Judy Clain Is Moving to S&S to Relaunch Summit Books

    In its first major move since being acquired by KKR, Simon & Schuster has announced that longtime Little, Brown editor-in-chief Judy Clain will join S&S as senior v-p and publisher of Summit Books, with a mandate to revive and refocus the imprint.

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