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ShelfTalker
What’s the right way to handle a
young customer who comes in to
confess to having shoplifted?
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Beyond the Book
PW senior writer Andrew Albanese
looks at the library community’s
harsh reaction to an open letter to
librarians posted last week by

Execs at the Little Free Library,

a nonprofit liter-

acy organization,

and the family of

Todd Bol, the late

founder of LFL,

are at odds, with

each side claim-

ing that it is

acting to protect

Bol’s legacy and

that the other is

undermining it.

Macmillan CEO John Sargent

wrote an open letter to librarians

and struck a somewhat conciliatory

note over the issue of embargoing

e-books to libraries, but his message

remains unchanged: library lending

of e-books poses a problem.

Daisy Blackwell Hutton, previously

v-p and publisher at HarperCollins

Christian Publishing, has been

named v-p and publisher of

Hachette Book Group’s Hachette

Nashville division, replacing Rolf

Zettersten, who is retiring.

Printing giant Quad said

it is selling its book manu-

facturing business, which

has annual revenue of

about $200 million.

The NCIBA voted to add

four Southern California

bookselling professionals

to the organization’s

board, the first step in

unifying California book-

sellers under a single

organization.

Online & On-Air

Macmillan CEO John Sargent.

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More to Come

Calvin Reid interviews acclaimed

comics writers Brian Michael

Bendis and David F. Walker about

their careers, their long-standing

friendship, and the hardcover

publication of Naomi (with art by

Jamal Campbell), a new book from

DC and Bendis’s Wonder Comics

teen imprint, which will launch a

new superhero in the DC universe.

publishersweekly.com/naomi

The Week in Publishing

President George Slowik Jr.

Executive V-P, Publisher Cevin Bryerman

V-P, Editorial Director Jim Milliot

V-P, General Manager Carl Pritzkat

V-P, Children’s Book Editor Diane Roback

V-P, Executive Editor Jonathan Segura

Associate Publisher Joe Murray

Art Director Clive Chiu

Managing Editor Daniel Berchenko

News Director Rachel Deahl

Senior News Editor Calvin Reid

News and Digital Editor John Maher

Features Editor Carolyn Juris

Deputy Reviews Editor Gabe Habash

Senior Editors Peter Cannon, Mark Rotella

Reviews Editors David Adams, Everett Jones, Meg Lemke,

Maya C. Popa, Seth Satterlee

Associate Reviews Editor Phoebe Cramer

Children’s Reviews Editor Amanda Bruns

Senior Writer Andrew R. Albanese

Bookselling & International Editor Ed Nawotka

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Associate Editor, Children’s Books Emma Kantor

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Assistant Editor Drucilla Shultz

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Audience Development Coordinator Marian Amo

V-P, Operations Patrick Turner

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Karen Raugust, Sonia Jaffe Robbins, Judith Rosen, Wendy Smith,

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