Ingram Content names international sales VP
Posted on November 11, 2009 at 8:31 am
Ingram Content Group has promoted Jeff McCall to vice president of Ingram International and national accounts. McCall will continue to oversee Ingram’s national accounts while also taking on the company’s overseas sales efforts. The Western Kentucky University graduate joined Ingram seven years ago after having spent time in sales at Doane Pet Care and a number of food producers.
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Thomas Nelson does DIY
Posted on October 13, 2009 at 7:39 am
One of Nashville’s most storied publishing names is opening a new growth avenue via an alliance with Indiana-based (and Inc. 5000-listed) Author Solutions, which markets self-publishing services. Thomas Nelson’s new West Bow Press imprint will bring the street cred, ASI the production and distribution facilities.
The alliance underlines how quickly the book business is changing. With the economy weak and the implications of digital technology, such as e-books, still being sorted out, publishers and retailers are scrambling to ring up fresh sales.
“There’s no question we think this will generate revenue,” said Michael Hyatt, Thomas Nelson’s chief executive.
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FiledBy fleshes out offerings
Posted on October 12, 2009 at 10:58 am
FiledBy, the Web site that seeks to give authors a one-stop marketing platform, has teamed up with fellow Nashvillians StudioNow on video production services.
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Downtown arts entrepreneur launches book imprint
Posted on September 30, 2009 at 10:41 am
Anne Brown, owner of the downtown art gallery The Arts Company, has started a publishing company for high-end art books. The venture’s first title features the art works of Brother Mel Meyer, who has been a priest since 1948 and a full-time artist since the ’60s.
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Local publisher nabs IPPY honor
Posted on at 6:42 am
The Road to Eden’s Ridge, a romance novel written by two Tennessee women and brought to market by Nashville-based Turner Publishing, has won a silver medal at this year’s Independent Publisher Book Awards. Turner has been run since 2002 by Todd Bottorff, son of Council Ventures chief Denny Bottorff.
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Another author marketing tool
Posted on September 23, 2009 at 6:47 amLocal production company StagePost has launched Authors Way, a Web venue for book signings and author interactions that also produces DVDs to be sold alongside writers’ books.
SEE ALSO: The birth and early growth of FiledBy
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Sitel snags media client
Posted on September 15, 2009 at 11:53 amCall center manager Sitel says a large publishing company has hired it to handle customer service work. The Nashville-based company will use about 200 people in the Phillipines on the contract.
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FiledBy finds traction in Cambridge
Posted on September 9, 2009 at 2:23 pmFiledBy, the publishing promotion portal launched this past spring by a veteran of Ingram Book, has hooked up with England’s Cambridge University to set up sites for more than 100 authors from its publishing arm.
How incivil is your company?
Posted on July 30, 2009 at 9:00 amThe FT’s Stefan Stern reviews “The Cost of Bad Behavior,” a new book on how a lack of manners is lowering profits around the globe.
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WSJ: Gannett to cut hundreds more
Posted on July 1, 2009 at 12:13 amThe Wall Street Journal reports that Tennessean parent Gannett will lay off at least 1,000 workers in the coming days.
The impending move, which follows several aggressive cost-cutting efforts by Gannett over the past year or so, reflects the gloomy near-term outlook for an advertising recovery. The publisher cut 4,600 jobs last year and followed that by requiring most of its remaining employees to take unpaid leave in the first and second quarters.
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Shawnee Press sold
Posted on June 19, 2009 at 6:51 amStoried music-publishing firm Shawnee Press has been sold by London-based Music Sales Corp. to Hal Leonard out of Milwaukee. The acquisition grows the catalog of Hal Leonard, which already runs a Cool Springs office, by about 11,000 titles. Perhaps not coincidentally, former Shawnee boss Mark Cabaniss recently joined Word Entertainment.
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Ingram promotes execs
Posted on June 18, 2009 at 8:16 am
The new Ingram Content Group has lined up its leadership team, pulling execs from across the Ingram publishing network. Under President and CEO Skip Prichard will work a team of managers that includes Chief Content Officer Phil Ollila and Chief Commercial Shawn Everson.
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Kings of Leon help launch label
Posted on June 17, 2009 at 2:45 pm
The Nashville-based rock stars have teamed with publisher Bug Music out of Los Angeles to start a record label that aims to bring new artists to the masses. Their first product will be an album by The Features, the band pictured here, who were among the winners of this year’s ‘Road to Bonnaroo’ contest.
Bug, which has partnerships with several other music ventures, earlier this year brought on board well-known Music Row songsmith and publisher Roger Murrah to lead its local effort.
Ingram unit wins Consumer Reports contract
Posted on June 4, 2009 at 7:07 amFrom the Nashville-based holding company:
Ingram Publisher Services Inc. (IPS), a full service book distribution company, today announced a new distribution agreement with Consumers Union, nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine and www.ConsumerReports.org.
Under the terms of the agreement, Ingram will distribute book titles published by Consumers Union including the forthcoming Consumer Reports Best Baby Products (10th Edition).
“We are very pleased to have Consumers Union sign on with our team at IPS,” stated Phil Ollila, President of Ingram Publisher Services. “The publications of Consumers Union reach millions – and we’re proud to be able to provide distribution services for their books.”
“In these challenging economic times consumers need trusted information to help them cut through the clutter in the marketplace. This agreement with Ingram will help put Consumer Reports’ unbiased and independent advice and reports into the hands of consumers at a time when they need it most,” said Jerry Steinbrink, vice president, Publishing.
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Two Row pubs fold
Posted on June 3, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Both Performing Songwriter and Radio & Records are winding down their operations, leaving Music Row with two fewer sources of inside-the-business news.
The unfolding scenarios are coming from different roots: At R&R, the integration with The Nielsen Co. hasn’t gone well, leaving the media conglomerate “with no other alternative” than to pull the plug. For Lydia Hutchinson’s team at Performing Songwriter, the decision to call an end to 16 years of publishing was due primarily to “changes that need to be made due to the nature of both the print and music industries that will affect the essential spirit of the magazine and take it in a direction that’s not really true to itself.” (Click here for Hutchinson’s letter.)
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