Bastei Lubbe AG announced that Mario Giordano will be joining the company as its new Head of Content Development. The appointment, effective 1 October 2014, represents a major coup for the group's digital division. Mario Giordano has succeeded brilliantly as a versatile writer of German light fiction.

As Head of Content, the 51-year-old Giordano will oversee all development of proprietary print and digital content. The position has a highly intentional international orientation. Mario Giordano will report to Board Member Felix Rudloff as do Publisher Marco Schneiders, who is responsible for the entire adult catalogue at Bastei Luebbe, and Mathias Siebel, the General Director of Children's and Teen Books.