Leon Neyfakh reports: Bloomsbury has fired editorial director Annik LaFarge, "ater a devastating year that saw U.S. sales plunge 14.9 percent." According to Neyfakh, "Ms. LaFarge confirmed by phone this morning that she had been fired and had started giving away her office supplies, but declined to comment further."

LaFarge had come to Bloomsbury just over two years ago after a stint as a senior editor at Crown Books where, Publishers Weekly noted at the time, "she was behind a number of high profile acquisitions (if no memorable bestsellers)." Before that, she had been the associate publisher at Simon & Schuster, a position she left to venture into the digital media world with the short-lived Contentville.