In the children's digital marketing department at Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing:
Nadia Almahdi has been promoted to director, digital marketing, for Simon Kids, from assistant director.
Shannon Pender has joined as assistant director, digital marketing, for Simon Teen. She was most recently a senior marketing manager at Random House Children's Books.
James Akinaka has joined as senior marketing manager, digital marketing, for Simon Kids and Simon Teen. He was most recently a digital marketing manager at Penguin Young Readers.
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John Cassidy is joining the Hachette Book Group online sales team as senior national account manager and will be responsible for selling client publishers to Amazon. He joins Hachette from Penguin Random House, where he has spent the last 20 years working with Amazon as a national account manager.