Random House senior vice-president and director of Random House adult sales in the US, Jaci Updike, has realigned responsibilities in the division, appointing a specific sales director to work with each of the publisher’s adult publishing groups.

According to Publishers Weekly, the chief responsibility of the newly...

Penguin owner Pearson expects to report earnings growth of about 20% in 2008, exceeding analyst estimates, and helped by the demand for education offerings.

In a trading update, the company said that the economy would be tough this year and “trading conditions will continue to be challenging”.

Penguin performed well...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will be meeting with publishers later this month to discuss three book projects, including a memoir of her service in the Bush administration.

Rice confirmed to the Associated Press that she is pursuing book proposals in the near future. Executives at two publishing houses and a senior aide to Rice...

Two weeks after Random House unveiled a restructuring, the newly consolidated Random House Publishing Group division in the US has appointed Susan Kamil, editorial director of Dial Press, as editor-in-chief of the Random House imprint.

Separately, a spokesman for the Knopf Publishing Group that assumed control of the Doubleday and Nan A...