Nora Rawlinson, who was abruptly fired last month from her role as editor-in-chief of
Publishers Weekly, has been named vice president of library services at Time Warner Book Group.
Rawlinson was a librarian before beginning her magazine career in 1988 as the
book review editor for
Library Journal. She moved on to sister publication
Publishers Weekly in 1992.
"I have admired Nora from the first instant I met her at an ALA fifteen years ago," TWBG chairman and CEO Laurence Kirshbaum said in a release. "She is a great talent." Rawlinson begins her post on March 1, reporting to president and COO Maureen Mahon Egen.
At the beginning of the year,
PW brass replaced Rawlinson with Sara Nelson, a longtime book journalist and author of
So Many Books, So Little Time (Putnam, 2003). In October,
PW parent company Reed Business also brought in a new publisher, William McGorry, replacing Joe Tessitore.
At the time of Rawlinson's dismissal from
PW, an article in the
New York Times stated, "
Publishers Weekly has faced many of the problems confronting general newsweekly magazines, including growing competition from daily electronic publications and Internet sites that cover the same ground."