| Pam Art Storey Publishing, LLC 210 MASS MoCA Way, North Adams, MA 01247 Phone: 413-346-2100 E: pam.art@storey.com www.storey.com |
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| Pam Art is the President of Storey Publishing. Majority owned by Workman Publishing, Storey focuses on illustrated non-fiction titles that provide practical, how-to information on subjects related to country living, including gardening, cooking, crafts, horses, animals, building, and kids/parents. Storey has a staff of forty-eight employees and produces forty new titles annually. With Storey since 1983, Pam has served in various capacities from managing editor to production director to publisher to president and CEO. Her accomplishments include increasing the sales growth while maintaining profitability, ensuring the continued vital growth of the company | |
| Kate Siegel Bandos Founder and President KSB Promotions 55 Honey Creek NE Ada, MI 49301-9768 Phone: 616-676-0758 E: kate@ksbpromotions.com www.ksbpromotions.com & www.ksblinks.com |
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| Kate Bandos has worked with hundreds of publishers and authors, and dealt with a wide array of media people during her nearly 40 years in publishing. Since the formation of KSB Promotions in 1988, she has primarily helped independent publishers garner media exposure. Prior to the formation of KSB Promotions, Kate was publicity director for M. Evans & Company (NYC), Globe Pequot Press (CT) and Pelican Publishing (LA). Handling national, regional, and local and carefully targeted campaigns, Kate and her husband/partner Doug work with non-fiction titles only, specializing in travel guides, parenting, gardening, cookbooks, home how-to, consumer health, select children's books and other general lifestyle books. | |
| Marianne Bohr Consultant Marianne C. Bohr, Consulting 9630 Beman Woods Way, Potomac, MD 20854 Phone: 301-731-9512 E: mcbohr@mariannecbohr.com www.mariannecbohr.com |
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| Marianne is a seasoned industry insider with over 25 years in book publishing. She collaborates with self-published authors and small independent presses worldwide who know her for her professional, experienced counsel. A book publishing advocate and ambassador, Marianne loves to share her experience with growing publishing companies. She understands their needs and has helped many go from struggling to succeeding. Prior to starting her consulting company, she spent over 12 years as Senior Vice President of National Book Network (NBN), one of the industry's largest and most respected book distributors. Prior to joining NBN, Marianne was the US Marketing Director for Academy Editions and Associate Publisher for The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Press. | |
| David Borgenicht Quirk Books 215 Church Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone: 215-627-3581, Fax: 215-627-5220 E: david@quirkbooks.com www.quirkbooks.com |
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| Todd Bottorff Publisher Turner Publishing Company 200 4th Ave. North, Ste. 950, Nashville, TN 37219 E: tbottorff@turnerpublishing.com www.turnerpublishing.com |
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| Todd Bottorff is a graduate of Harvard University, author, editor, and award-winning publisher. He has edited or published hundreds of titles in varying subjects including creativity, history, and literary fiction. He has served as the President and Publisher of Turner Publishing since 2002. Through Todd’s leadership, Turner has been named as one of the fastest growing independent publishers in the nation by Publishers Weekly for the last two years. He serves as a board member of Nashville’s public television station, WNPT, the Humanities Tennessee and is an Alumni Board member of Montgomery Bell Academy. He lives in Nashville with his wife and two children. | |
| Davida Breier Manager, Hopkins Fulfillment Services Johns Hopkins University Press 2715 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 Phone: 410-516-6961, Fax: 410-516-6998 E: DGB@press.jhu.edu http://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu |
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| Davida Breier is the Manager for Hopkins Fulfillment Services (HFS), the distribution division at Johns Hopkins University Press. She’s worked for National Book Network (NBN), where she was the Marketing Director and oversaw NBN Fusion, a digital publishing and distribution initiative. Prior to that, she was the Sales and Marketing Director for Biblio Distribution, managing over 500 independent presses. She is also a board member for the non-profit publisher, No Voice Unheard and is a contributing writer and photographer for their new book Meeting America's Farmed Animals in Stories and Photographs. | |
| Cevin Bryerman Publisher Publishers Weekly 360 Park Ave. S., New York, NY 10010-1710 Phone: 646-746-6654, Fax: 646-746-6620 E: cbryerman@reedbusiness.com www.reedbusiness.com |
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| Cevin Bryerman is Associate Publisher of Publishers Weekly, the leading international trade magazine for book publishing. He is a member of the advisory board for Netgalley, Books for a Better Life, Center for Small Independent Presses, and Green Press Initiative. He has been a guest speaker at Northwestern University and Columbia University on book and magazine publishing. Cevin is treasurer of IBPA and has served as a board member for the past two and half years. | |
| Elise Cannon V.P. Sales-Field, PGW/Perseus 1700 4th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710 Phone: 510-809-3730 E: elise.cannon@pgw.com, www.pgw.com |
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| Elise Cannon is vice president, director of field sales at Publishers Group West, the most successful exclusive distributor of independent publishers in North America. She has worked at PGW for 16 years, representing over 125 exceptional presses, including best-selling publishers Grove/Atlantic Monthly, New World Library, Counterpoint, Soft Skull Press, McSweeney's, MacAdam/Cage, Shelter Publications, Ulysses Press and Gallup Press. She also oversees independent bookstore sales for the Perseus Books Group. A former PMA/IBPA board member, she believes that up-to-date marketplace knowledge is one of the cornerstones of success for independent publishers. | |
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| Steve Carlson co-founded Upper Access in 1986, and has served as publisher ever since. He has achieved success by keeping his company small enough to allow his own involvement in all aspects of publishing, focusing on maximizing sales of a short list of titles. His books fall into a broad niche, nonfiction to improve the quality of life. Steve also publishes business software for the publishing industry, including the freeware Publishers' Assistant, and Couplet, for managing titles and contacts. He is a former board member of IBPA, and current president of Independent Publishers of New England. Prior to becoming a publisher, Steve has worked as a journalist, a congressional assistant, and a magazine editor. | |
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Jamie Carter began her career in acquisitions at Arcadia Publishing, where she helped to grow the company’s list from a handful of titles to several hundred over three years. Beginning in 1999, she worked as an analyst for a commercial web design company, documenting website needs and information flow. For 6+ years before joining Baker & Taylor (B&T), Jamie served as manufacturing buyer at Heinemann, now a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt company. Today, Jamie is operations manager for Publisher Alley, an online tool for analysis of book sales through B&T. |
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| Sharon Castlen Integrated Book Marketing PO Box 321, Kings Park, NY 11754 Phone: 631-979-5990 E: ibmarket@optonline.net |
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| Sharon Castlen, Book Marketer, works with small presses and independent publisher clients across the country to develop the unique marketing strategy for each book. She then puts it into action for cost and time effective results. With thirty years experience in marketing and media, she focuses on promotion and distribution for the niche markets at the national, regional, and local levels. She believes strongly that integrating your marketing effort with excellent distribution and strong promotion generates greater success and increased sales. Her work focuses on non-fiction and includes health, parenting, children’s, Christian, and business titles. | |
| Kassahun Checole Publisher Africa World Press, Inc. & The Red Sea Press, Inc. 541 W. Ingham Avenue, Trenton, NJ 08638 Phone: 609-638-5784 E: awprsp@verizon.net www.africaworldpressbooks.com |
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| Kassahun Checole is the founding publisher of Africa World Press, Inc. and The Red Sea Press, Inc., two of the major publishing and distribution houses for books on and about Africa and African American issues. Before launching the presses almost 25 years ago, Checole was a professor of Sociology and political economy at Rutgers University and at El Colegio de Mexico, in Mexico City. | |
| Peter Clifton CEO & Co-founder FiledBy, Inc. 102 Woodmont Blvd., Nashville, TN 37205 Phone: 615-712-8909 E: pclifton@filedby.com www.filedby.com |
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| Peter Clifton is the CEO and Co-founder of FiledBy, a leading online directory of authors, co-authors, illustrators, photographers and other book contributors. Peter has more than 25 years experience in the publishing, media and technology industries. Most recently, he was President and CEO of several Ingram Book Group companies including; Ingram International, Ingram Library Services, Ingram Periodicals, and Tennessee Book Company. Prior to Ingram, he was the founding CEO of PubEasy.com. Peter also worked for John Wiley & Sons, HarperCollins and SegaSoft, a subsidiary of SEGA of America. | |
| Mark Coker Founder and CEO Smashwords 15951 Los Gatos Blvd., Ste 16, Los Gatos, CA 95032 Phone: 408-358-1824 E: info@smashwords.com http://www.smashwords.com |
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| Mark Coker is founder and CEO of Smashwords, an ebook publishing platform and online bookstore for publishers, authors and readers. Smashwords helps publishers publish, promote and sell their books as multi-format, DRM-free ebooks. Mark is an outspoken advocate for independent publishing. He frequently writes and speaks about how ebooks will transform publishing and open up new worldwide markets for authors and publishers. Mark is also the co-author, with his wife, of Boob Tube, a novel that explores the dark side of Hollywood celebrity. He resides in Silicon Valley, blogs at http://blog.smashwords.com and can be found on Twitter at www.twitter.com/markcoker | |
| Claudia Gryvatz Copquin Reviewer Long Island Parent E: CGCWRITER@aol.com http://www.ClaudiaCopquin.com |
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| In a career spanning two decades, award-winning freelance journalist, editor, author and blogger Claudia Gryvatz Copquin is a frequent contributor to the Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper Newsday. She's also been published in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and a slew of newspapers across the country, having written hundreds of features and columns on family, parenting, business, lifestyle, and bridal. She's also the author of the non-fiction book, The Neighborhoods of Queens (Yale University Press, 2007) and the soon-to-be released Fast Track Networking: Turning Conversations into Contacts (Career Press, 2010), co-authored with networking guru Lucy Rosen. Copquin is a long-standing member of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Authors Guild. | |
| Gregory Cowles Staff Editor The New York Times Book Review Phone: 212-556-4406 E: cowles@nytimes.com www.nytimes.com |
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| Gregory Cowles is a staff editor at The New York Times Book Review, specializing in fiction, and a frequent contributor to the Book Review's Paper Cuts blog. He received his M.F.A. in fiction from Columbia, where he was the editor of Columbia Journal, and has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. Before coming to the Times, he worked at a small Connecticut newspaper and in the fiction department at The New Yorker. | |
| Angela D'Agostino Vice President of Business Development Bowker and ProQuest 630 Central Ave., New Providence, NJ 07974 Phone: 908- 219-0150 E: Angela.dagostino@bowker.com www.bowker.com |
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| Angela D’Agostino is the Vice President of Business Development for Bowker and ProQuest. She joined Bowker in 1990 and has been instrumental in transforming the company from a traditional print reference publisher to a provider of essential data and services for publishers, book retailers, corporations and libraries throughout the world. Her responsibilities have ranged across all markets Bowker serves and have been focused on developing the company’s long-term strategy which has included partnerships, acquisitions and the development of strategic relationships with emerging players in the book world such as Google, Sony and Apple. In 2010 Bowker was reorganized to be more tightly integrated with its sister company, ProQuest, at which time Angela assumed responsibilities of business development and content licensing for both Bowker and ProQuest. Angela has a B.A. in English Literature from St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame and an M.B.A. in Marketing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. | |
| Tamara Dever Owner TLC Graphics Austin, Texas Phone: 512-292-8798 E: Tamara@tlcgraphics.com www.TLCGraphics.com |
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| Tamara Dever is the owner and founder of TLC Graphics, a book design firm providing full service support to small publishers and their clients. Begun in 1997, the business has grown from design studio to a complete publishing development firm, winning numerous national and regional awards including two ForeWord Magazine's Top Ten Book of the Year awards. When not running the business, Ms. Dever enjoys riding her horse, spending time with her family and dogs, and volunteering for church. She has a BFA in Graphic Communications from UW Oshkosh and began her career designing magazines and books for several publishing companies. | |
| Terry Doherty Executive Director The Reading Tub Inc. E: terry@thereadingtub.com www.thereadingtub.com |
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Terry Doherty loves to read and is inspired by books, so when she had the chance to share her passion with others, she took it. In 2001, Terry traded in her nearly 20-year career in government service for the all-important job of being Mom. The flexibility of being a Stay-at-Home-Mom allowed Terry to pursue her lifelong love of reading and literacy. What started as special time sharing books with her (then) infant daughter is today The Reading Tub, Inc., a thriving public charity dedicated to children's literacy and family reading. When she's not reading, writing, or coordinating other literacy work for her Website, The Reading Tub®, you will find her tutoring at-risk elementary students in reading, facilitating book drives, and crafting other community-based literacy projects. |
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| Tom Doherty President Cardinal Publishers Group 2402 N. Shadeland Ave., Suite A, Indianapolis, IN 46219 Phone: 800-296-0481 E: tdoherty@cardinalpub.com www.cardinalpub.com |
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| Tom Doherty has worked in publishing for more than 25 years. Sixteen of those years involved in distribution with Time-Warner, The Hearst Corporation and for the past eight years as president of Cardinal Publishers Group; a full service national book distributor serving independent publishers of adult non-fiction books. Tom is also the publisher of Blue River Press, which publishes New York Times bestselling authors James Alexander Thom and Jack D. Hunter as well as category non-fiction and regional series books. | |
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| At Kobo, Cameron is responsible for all things pertaining to establishing relations with publishers, acquiring their content, and helping bridge the digital supply chain and has been with Kobo since their launch back when they were fondly known as Shortcovers. Previous to this wild ride, he worked for the Canadian Manda Group, a sales & marketing agency, for six years as their National Account Manager for Ingram International, Ingram Publisher Services, and Diamond Book Distributors. Cameron has a Masters of Philosophy in New Media from the Australian National University. | |
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| Drawing on his 30 years’ experience as a publisher, Howard now helps other publishers accomplish their goals. The Fisher Company helps publishers with strategy, business sales and acquisitions, financial and operations consulting, and marketing planning. Howard has directed the sales and marketing efforts of more than 1,000 nonfiction titles, including 10 bestsellers selling more than a million copies each. He is a past president of PMA, the Independent Book Publishers Association (PMA/IBPA). In addition to his consulting activities Howard publishes educational books, automotive nostalgia titles and fly fishes whenever possible. | |
| Marika Flatt Owner PR by the Book PO Box 6226, Round Rock, TX 78683 Phone: 512-501-4399, Fax: 512-532-6170 E: marika@prbythebook.com www.prbythebook.com |
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| Marika Flatt, owner of PR by the Book, LLC, has been in book publicity for 13 years, following a few years in the media (TV and newspaper). She launched PR by the Book in 2002 and they have since worked with many bestselling authors and major publishing houses, including in 2009-2010: The Berenstain Bears Living Lights series, Farrah Gray Publishing’s inaugural author Ky-Mani Marley (Bob Marley’s son), and Zondervan Publishers. Flatt was awarded a Gold Bulldog Award for a publicity campaign that generated exposure in over 700 media outlets. Flatt, a past-president of the Association for Women in Communications, is the recipient of the Austin Public Relations Society of America Outstanding Mentor Award and the Anne D. Robinson Creative Initiative Award. She lives Austin, Texas with her husband Doug (co-owner) and 3 kids. | |
| Susan Foster Smart Travel Press PO Box 25514, Portland, OR 97298 Phone: 503.452.9384, Fax: 503.452.7558 E: susan@smartpacking.com www.smartpacking.com |
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| Author, publisher, speaker, spokesperson – Susan Foster wears many hats in addition to being a successful independent travel publisher with sales primarily in niche markets. Smart Packing for Today’s Traveler is an evergreen bestseller that is sold in catalogs, and used as a premium and a gift with purchase in addition to being available through traditional book channels. Smart Travel Press is Susan’s second publishing venture; she previously co-founded Palmer/Pletsch Associates, the largest sewing book publisher in the US with over a million books in print sold through niche markets, entering the bookstore market only recently. | |
| Cynthia Frank President Cypress House 155 Cypress Street, Fort Bragg, CA 95437 Phone: 707-964-9520 E: cynthia@cypresshouse.com www.cypresshouse.com |
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| Cynthia Frank, president of Cypress House, has 20 years experience in writing, publishing, editing, and teaching. She is on the education committee for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association, and has presented workshops for the IBPA Publishing University, the University of Denver Publishing Institute, the Mendocino Coast Writers Conference, American Society of Journalists and Authors, the National Association of Science Writers, California Poets in the Schools, and the Bay Area Independent Publishers Association. She received an “IPPY Award” as one of Ten Outstanding Women of Independent Publishing. In her “spare” time she conducts the Mendocino Women's Choir. | |
| Robert S. Friedman Rainbow Bridge Books 140 Rainbow Ridge Road, Faber, VA 22938 E: rfriedman65@yahoo.com |
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| Alan Giagnocavo President, Fox Chapel Publishing 1970 Broad Street,East Petersburg, PA 17520 Phone: 717-715-8600 E: alan@foxchapelpublishing.com www.foxchapelpublishing.com |
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| Alan Giagnocavo started Fox Chapel Publishing as a niche publisher serving the interests of woodcarving enthusiasts in 1991. It is now an integrated book and magazine publisher serving the larger market of woodworkers, crafts and some other subject areas, From a kitchen table to a business with 30 employees, it has been listed twice on PW's list of "Fast Growing Independents." Located in Lancaster, PA, the headquarters are in a renovated tobacco warehouse. | |
| Seth Godin Author, Speaker and Publisher E: seth@sethgodin.com www.sethgodin.com |
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Seth Godin is the author of twelve books that have been bestsellers around the world and changed the way people think about marketing, change and work. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages, and his ebooks are among the most popular ever published. He is responsible for many words in the marketer's vocabulary, including permission marketing, ideaviruses, purple cows, the dip and sneezers. His irrepressible speaking style and no-holds-barred blog have helped him create a large following around the world.
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| Bob Goodman Owner and publisher Silvercat 3738 Carmel View Road, San Diego, CA 92130 Phone: 858-794-1597 E: rg@silvercat.com www.silvercat.com |
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| Robert Goodman started Silvercat in 1988. Originally a publisher, he added book packaging to the Silvercat mix in 1995. He has published a number of critically praised and award-winning books. In 2002, he also founded Silver Threads to develop and publish memoirs and books about writing memoirs over the last 20 years. He is the founder and past president of Publishers & Writers of San Diego, a founding faculty member of the La Jolla Writers Conference, co-host of Writers Roundtable on sdradio.com, and a frequent participant at IBPA Publishing University. | |
| Rob Grindstaff Digital Product Management Director Ingram Content Group Inc. 14 Ingram Blvd., LaVergne, TN 37086 Phone: 615-213-5369 E: rob.grindstaff@ingramdigital.com www.ingramdigital.com |
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| Rob Grindstaff is the Digital Product Development Director with responsibility for the CoreSource Digital Asset Distribution platform. Mr. Grindstaff is an electronic publishing industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience. He has served in various job roles over this period including sales, marketing, and product development. He came to Ingram from ProQuest where he was responsible for marketing the company’s aggregated database product platform. Rob is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Journalism. He and his family live in Franklin, Tennessee. | |
| Marion Gropen President Gropen Associates, Inc. 455 1/2 Henry Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231 Phone: 888-347-6736 E: marion.gropen@gropenassoc.com |
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| Marion Gropen helps publishers turn problems into profits with By-The-Question consulting, classes on-line and in-person, and inexpensive software, and now, a new line of ebooks. Her expertise is the result of many years as a consultant and 13 years of experience in modestly-sized publishers, as well as an MBA (Finance, NYU). She loves helping publishers, so feel free to ask her questions while you're here. She also gives away advice on her blog, and on the leading publishing listservs and groups. | |
| Tanya Hall Business Development Manager Greenleaf Book Group LLC PO Box 91869, Austin, Texas 78709 Phone: 512-891-6100; Fax: 512-891-6150 E: tanya@greenleafbookgroup.com www.greenleafbookgroup.com |
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| Tanya Hall is a seasoned media veteran, recognized in the fields of business development, distribution and publishing. In her current role, Tanya drives Greenleaf’s business development efforts, working with authors to develop their publishing programs and developing strategic partnerships to grow Greenleaf’s reputation as a leading independent publisher. Prior to her current role, she built Greenleaf's distribution organization, working directly with retailers and wholesalers to develop one of the fastest growing distribution businesses in the industry. Before joining the publishing industry, Tanya worked as a television producer for Extra! and E! Cable Networks. Tanya regularly speaks at various events, including the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Publishing University, AuthorSmart, and the Publishing Business Expo. | |
| David Hancock Founder, Morgan James Publishing The Entrepreneurial Publisher 1225 Franklin Ave Ste 325, Garden City, NY 11530 Phone: 516-522-0514; Fax: 516-908-4496 E: david@morganjamespublishing.com www.MorganJamesPublishing.com |
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David Hancock, the Chief Evangelist for The Entrepreneurial Author and Master Guerrilla Marketer is the founder of Morgan James Publishing. Recognized in 2008 by NASDAQ as one of the world’s most prestigious business leaders. He was also named a finalist in the Best Chairman category in the 2006 American Business Awards. Hailed as “the business world’s own Oscars” by The New York Post, the American Business Awards are the only national, all-encompassing business awards program honoring great performances in the workplace. David actively works with authors to help them not only maximize revenue from their book royalties, but also build new business and increase their revenue substantially through follow-on sales to their readers. One of David’s core values is having strong and mutually beneficial relationships. “We’ve spent years developing many of the key business relationships; that allows us to get our books in bookstores and the widespread Web coverage we’ve been able to achieve. We intend to stay constant in our pursuit of positive relationships with people in all facets of our business, and we see that as a strategic advantage.” David is the founder of the Entrepreneurial Author Community and founder of the Ethan Awards, the only international, all-encompassing entrepreneurial author awards for business authors. David sits on the advisory board of the Mark Victor Hansen Foundation and on the executive board of Habitat for Humanity Peninsula.David and his wife Susan live in Hampton Roads, Virginia, with their two children, Morgan Renee and Ethan James. |
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| Nettie Hartsock Principal The Hartsock Agency 828 Lazy Lane, San Marcos, TX 78666 Phone: 512-396-1067 E: nettie@nettiehartsock.com www.nettiehartsock.com |
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| Nettie Hartsock launched her website in 1996. The Hartsock Agency is a full service online strategy firm. Nettie is a member of Social Media Today, WOMMA and ONA. Nettie’s clients have seen millions in YouTube views, features on DailyKos, Daily Candy, Huffington Post, NYTimes, MSNBC.com, Entreprenuer, Pink Magazine, Inc.com, Allbusiness.com, Wall St. Journal, and BlogCritics. Her client base spans best-selling authors from publishers including Harper Collins, Penguin, Wiley, Random House, Berrett-Koehler, and Simon&Schuster.Nettie is the author of Kiss Your Publicist Goodbye (July, 2010 Widener Books) | |
| Michael Healy Executive Director Book Rights Registry http://www.googlebooksettlement.com |
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| David Hetherington Director, Major Accounts Digital Media Group, Baker & Taylor 1120 US Highway 22 East, Bridgewater, NJ 08807 Phone: 908-541-7040, Fax: 973-710-9186 E: david.hetherington@baker-taylor.com www.baker-taylor.com |
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| David Hetherington is director of major account sales for Baker & Taylor's Digital Service Group and an adjunct professor at the Pace University Graduate School of Book and Magazine Publishing.
He was previously managing director for strategic business development for Integrated Book Technology, and has held senior positions in finance, operations and manufacturing with some of the book publishing industry's largest firms, including Simon & Schuster, Reader's Digest Association, BearingPoint Consulting, Wolters Kluwer Health and Columbia University Press. Mr. Hetherington is a frequent speaker at industry events including the Publishing Industry Business Exposition, Book Binders Guild of New York, Independent Book Publishers Association, Wuhan University Digital Publishing Forum, InterQuest Digital Printing, Book Builders of Boston, and the Xerox Digital Printing Thought Leadership Program. Mr. Hetherington also serves as a columnist to Book Business Magazine and is a member of the faculty of the Pace University Graduate School of Publishing where he specializes in the financial aspects of book publishing. |
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| Julia Hidy Energized Living Multimedia 33-2867 Yonge St., Toronto, ON M4N 2J5 Phone: 647-436-9766 E: juliah@energyforyourlife.com www.energyforyourlife.com & www.juliahidy.com |
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| Julia Hidy is an author, publisher and senior marketing consultant to top ERP software developers. She's managed $3.5 billion in projects and was the PR contact for three billionaires. Julia's also a multi-media producer. The Washington Post, Spa Life, CBC Radio, and healthylife.net have found her online. She's spoken at BookExpo Canada, PodCamp Toronto, and at corporate events. She's the author of Instant Energy for Your Life (Fall 2010) the runs http://www.energyforyourlife.com. | |
| Hobie Hobart Dunn+Associates P O Box 870, Hayward WI 54843-0870 Phone: 715/634-4857, Fax: 715/634-5617 E: hobie@dunn-design.com www.dunn-design.com |
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| Hobie Hobart, his partner Kathi Dunn, and their team at Dunn+Associates Strategic Design and Branding, create success tools for authors, speakers and experts to help them build their brands and business empires, including bestselling book covers, speaker kits, and information product packaging. For 25 years, Dunn+Associates has worked with premiere authors and speakers like Mark Victor Hansen, Ken Blanchard, Jack Canfield, Tony Robbins, John Edward, Deepak Chopra, and Sylvia Browne, as well as publishing giants like HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, Prentice Hall, Ballantine, Hay House, and Bantam. Dunn+Associates has been a frequent contributor to IBPA's newsletter and many of their clients have garnered IBPA's prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award for Design Excellence. In addition, Dunn+Associates has received over 150 awards from the American Advertising Federation and Print Magazine, among others. Hobie is co-author of Cover That Book: Insider Secrets for Writing and Designing a Bestselling Book Cover and 10 Simple Steps to Creating a Speaker Kit that Books Your Schedule Solid. | |
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| Brian is an author, book-marketing consultant and television host. He created 'The Promotional Bookstore' special-sales catalog and is the author of How to Make Real Money Selling Books (Square One Publishers) and Beyond the Bookstore (a Reed Press title). Brian is the editor of an ezine on special-sales topics. With Oracle Corporation he developed the Special-Sales Profit Center, the web-based, targeted-marketing system. Brian is the host of the television series The Book Authority. He wrote and published seven titles on career transition that are distributed internationally. He is co-founder of the Publishing At Sea˙ seminars held on cruise ships around the world. | |
| Eric Kampmann President Midpoint Trade Books 27 West 20th Street, Suite 1102, New York, NY 10011 Phone: 212-727-0190 E: ekampmann@aol.com www.midpointtrade.com |
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| Eric M. Kampmann has worked with independent publishers since 1981, first as the president of Kampmann & Company, then as one of the architects that engineered National Book Network's growth in the early 1990's. Mr. Kampmann has worked at Viking Press, St. Martin's Press, and Simon & Schuster where he held the position as vice president, director of sales. Eric is president of Midpoint Trade Books, a leading sales and distribution company for independent publishers. He the author of The Book Publishers Handbook: The 7 Keys to Publishing Success published by Beaufort Books, Inc in May 2007. | |
| Christopher Kenneally Director, Author Relations Copyright Clearance Center 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923 Phone: 978-646-2705 E: ckenneally@copyright.com www.beyondthebook.com |
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| At Copyright Clearance Center, Christopher Kenneally is responsible for organizing and hosting programs that address the business needs of authors of all backgrounds, from academics to freelancers. Among other activities, he is host and moderator for an ongoing series of writing conferences called, “Beyond the Book” (www.beyondthebook.com). The programs are frequently broadcast nationally on C-SPAN's Book-TV and in Canada on BookTelevision; the series is also now a podcast, available from iTunes.com. In addition, Kenneally's articles on such topics as blogging, search engines, and the impact of technology on writers have appeared in the Boston Business Journal, Washington Business Journal, and BookTech Magazine, among other publications. An award-winning journalist and author of Massachusetts 101, a history of the state “from Redcoats to Red Sox” (www.mass101.com ), Christopher Kenneally has reported on education, business, travel, culture and technology for the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Independent of London, and many other leading publications. He also has reported for WBUR-FM (Boston), National Public Radio and WGBH-TV (Boston). | |
| Florrie Binford Kichler President Independent Book Publishers Association PO Box 752, Carmel, IN 46082 Phone: 317-577-1321, Fax: 413-215-8030 E: florrie@ibpa-online.org www.ibpa-online.org |
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Florrie Binford Kichler is president of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), the largest trade organization of independent publishers in the United States. She also serves as President of Patria Press, Inc., the publisher of the award-winning Young Patriots Series for children. |
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| Jim King Sr. VP & General Manager Nielsen BookScan / The Nielsen Company Phone: 646.654.4781, Fax: 646.654.5341 E: Jim.King@nielsen.com www.nielsen.org |
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| Jonathan Kirsch Author and Publishing Attorney Law Offices of Jonathan Kirsch 1880 Century Park East, Suite 515, Los Angeles, CA 90067 Phone: 310-785-1200, Fax: 310-286-9573 E: jk@jonathankirsch.com www.jonathankirsch.com |
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| Jonathan Kirsch is a publishing and intellectual property attorney based in Los Angeles, an expert witness on publishing industry matters, an Adjunct Professor on the Faculty of New York University’s Professional Publishing Institute, a book reviewer for the Los Angeles Times, and the author of twelve books, including two books on publishing law and seven books on the Bible as literature and the history of religion. His most recent book is The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God (HarperOne). | |
| Phil Knight Director of Sales, Color House Graphics, Inc. 3505 Eastern Ave., Grand Rapids, MI 49508 Phone: 800-454-1916, Fax: 616-245-5494 E: PKnight@colorhousegraphics.com www.colorhousegraphics.com |
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| Phil Knight is currently the Director of Sales for Color House Graphics, a short and medium print-run book manufacturing company located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has over thirty-five years of experience within the book manufacturing industry. He has spent most of his career in sales and marketing management roles. He received a BS degree in printing management from Ferris State University and an MBA from Cornerstone University. He is a member of several publishing associations including Publishers Association of the West, Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA), Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN), Printing Industries of America as well as other industry related organizations. |
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| Jesse Kornbluth Editor of HeadButler.com E: HeadButlerNYC@aol.com www.headbutler.com |
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Jesse Kornbluth is editor of HeadButler.com and top amazon reviewer. As a magazine journalist, he has been a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, New York, Architectural Digest, Reader's Digest, The Los Angeles Times Magazine and Departures, and a contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, etc. As an author, his books include Airborne: The Triumph and Struggle of Michael Jordan; Highly Confident: The Crime and Punishment of Michael Milken; Pre-Pop Warhol and The Other Guy Blinked (with Roger Enrico). He recently worked with Twyla Tharp on The Collaborative Habit. As a screenwriter, he has written for Robert De Niro, Paul Newman, Warner Brothers, PBS and ABC. On the Web, he co-founded Bookreporter.com, now the hub of the Internet's most successful non-commercial book network. From 1997 to 2002, he was Editorial Director of America Online. |
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| Jeanne T. Kramer Vice President, Marketing National Book Network 120 East Central Avenue, Suite L, Pearl River, NY 10965 Phone: 845-920-8010 E: jkramer@nbnbooks.com www.nbnbooks.com |
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| Widely recognized as a savvy book marketer, Jeanne Kramer, vice president of marketing, heads up National Book Network's Account Management department. Jeanne began her career in the publicity department at Prentice-Hall. With over 25 years of book sales, marketing and publishing experience in a variety of executive positions with Random House, Simon & Schuster and Prentice-Hall, Jeanne provides marketing and publicity consultation to NBN's client publishers. Jeanne has served as an adjunct instructor of “Marketing for Publishing” at the NYU School of Professional Studies. | |
| Gail Kump Marketing Manager National Book Network 150 Shoreham Road, Massapequa, NY 11758 Phone: 516/780-2576 E: gkump@nbnbooks.com www.nbnbooks.com |
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| Roland is a Strategic Partner Development Manager, responsible for creating Book Search Partnerships with publishers in North America, India and South Africa. With over ten years of trade book publishing experience, he started with Google in September 2005 having left a sales position with Farrar, Straus & Giroux. He got his full-time start in book publishing with Penguin USA and has also worked for Perseus and Harcourt Trade. He has been a speaker for Google at numerous book fairs, including the BEA, and the Frankfurt, Delhi and Cape Town Book Fairs, and many industry panels, including the IDPF, AAR and IBPA. Mr. Lange holds a B.S. from Cornell University. |
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| Neil Levin President and Founder EverPub LLC 11915 Devilwood Drive, Potomac, MD 20854 Phone: 301-466-0829 E: neil@everpub.com www.everpub.com |
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| Neil Levin is president and founder of EverPub LLC. Prior to founding EverPub, Neil was SVP at National Book Network (NBN) and held senior sales and marketing positions at Time Life, Grolier, Chilton, and Publisher Marketing Group, his own consulting firm. EverPub LLC developed the EverPub author/book marketing pages and recently launched EverPub|Publisher, a new online book catalog for publishers that aggregates key marketing data, book trailer, and social media links in a search engine optimized package. | |
| Scott Lubeck Executive Director Book Industry Study Group, Inc Phone: 646-336-7141 E: Scott@bisg.org |
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| Scott Lubeck has more than thirty years of experience in publishing, entrepreneurship, and innovative use of technology. He began his career in editorial at the University of Texas Press in 1977; he became president of Texas Monthly Press in 1983. He has been at the forefront of many transformation initiatives in the publishing industry. As director of the National Academy Press in Washington, D.C. in 1989, he led pioneering work in digital print and Web publishing. In 1999 he joined the Perseus Books Group as vice president and managing director where he led the development of Perseus Print on Demand. In 2001 he joined Harvard Business School Publishing in the newly created role of Chief Technology Officer to lead its strategic initiatives in digital publishing. In 2007 he joined NewsStand/LibreDigital as vice president and general manager and in 2008 joined Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional and Education as vice president of technology to lead its single-source publishing strategy. He is currently executive director of the Book Industry Study Group. | |
| Amy Collins MacGregor The Cadence Group & New Shelves Distribution 103 Remsen St Ste 1, Cohoes, NY 12047 Phone: 518-391-2300 E: acollins@thecadencegrp.com www.thecadencegrp.com |
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| Amy Collins MacGregor provides publishers and small presses with the guidance necessary to create and market successful, professionally-designed books. She started her career in the book industry in 1992 as the book buyer for Village Green Books in upstate, New York and by 2001, was named Director of Sales at Adams Media in Boston and quickly rose to the Special Sales Director for parent company, F+W Media. Over the years, Amy has sold to Borders, Barnes and Noble, Target, Costco, Wal-Mart, and all the major chains as well as worked with several private label publishing programs for chains such as Borders, PetSmart and CVS. Amy is now the president of The Cadence Group and New Shelves Distribution. | |
| Dave Marx Publisher PassPorter Travel Press PO Box 3880, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Phone: 734-332-7801, Fax: 734-332-7806 E: dave@passporter.com www.passporter.com |
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| Dave Marx is the Publisher at PassPorter Travel Press, and co-author of several of the company's guidebooks. PassPorter guidebooks have received over a dozen awards, including IBPA's Bill Fisher Award and several more Benjamin Franklin Awards, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year awards, and an ABA BookSense Pick. PassPorter's Walt Disney World guidebook consistently ranks among BookScan's top 50 travel titles. He's spent 35 years in the media—print, broadcast, music, and online. Dave also serves on the IBPA Board of Directors. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife and partner-in-PassPorter, Jennifer, and their four year-old son Alexander. | |
| Josh Mettee American West Books, Inc. 1254 Commerce Way, Sanger, CA 93657 Phone: 559-876-2170 E: jmettee@AmericanWestBooks.com |
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Joshua Blake Mettee is the owner and CEO of American West Books, a wholesaler specializing in regional and niche titles. In 1993, the summer after he graduated from high school, he took over a then defunct book company by the same name. That same year he began work on a marketing degree at California State University, Fresno, immediately applying the lessons he learned from his studies to the business. During spring and summer breaks, Mettee would hit the road selling books to museums, gift shops, tourist locations, and other retailers. Many nights were spent in the back of his Blazer camping in the Sierra Nevada Mountains or on California’s coast since campsites were cheaper than hotel rooms. Today, American West Books continues to sell to accounts in Central and Northern California, but it also sells a wide range of titles nationally to the major wholesale clubs and the national bookstore chains. |
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| Stephen B. Mettee The Write Thought, Inc. Sanger, California 93657 Phone: 559-876-2170, Fax: 559-876-2180 E: Mettee@TheWriteThought.com www.quilldriverbooks.com |
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| Stephen Blake Mettee, founder of Quill Driver Books and The Write Thought, is the author of The Fast-Track Course on How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal which has been adopted for use in university courses. He serves on the board of Independent Book Publisher’s Association. He regularly consults on and teaches writing and publishing. During his time at the helm, Mettee shepherded two Quill Driver Books titles into Book-of-the-Month Club selections and one onto the New York Times bestseller list. In 2008, Mettee sold Quill Driver Books but still acts as acquisitions editor and, as such, is always in the market for exceptional nonfiction manuscripts. Mettee has published scads of nonfiction articles and is working on a book on fund-raising. | |
| Tolly Moseley PR by the Book Austin, Texas Phone: 559-876-2170, Fax: 559-876-2180 E: tolly@prbythebook.com www.prbythebook.com |
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| Tolly Moseley began her publicity career at a literary publicity firm, where she booked major media outlets, including: CNN “American Morning,” CBS’ “Dr. Phil,” FOX’s “Fox and Friends,” New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Redbook, Real Simple, and more. As a publicist, she worked with books from major publishers, such as: TOR/Forge, St. Martin’s Press, Penguin, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, The Overlook Press, Thomas Nelson, Guideposts Books, and Zondervan. When she is not publicizing, Tolly is a contributor to several print and online media outlets. These include: Discovery Channel’s two eco-news sites, TreeHugger.com and PlanetGreen.com, as well as HeartlessDoll.com, the feminist/pop culture site of Village Voice. As both a publicist and freelance writer, Tolly regularly works both sides of the media pitch, which benefits her as a publicist and journalist. Since 2007, Tolly has also hosted an award-winning blog in Austin, Texas: Austin Eavesdropper. In 2010, Tolly and her blog won a Texas Social Media Award from the Austin American-Statesman. Tolly received her B.A. in English from Southwestern University, where she graduated Cum Laude. She earned her M.A. in Literature from University of California, Davis, in 2007, specializing in Victorian Literature. She is a volunteer with Faith in Action Caregivers, and lives in Austin with her husband and cat, Claudia. |
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| Mitch Muncy Executive Director, The Alexander Hamilton Society 16 Stockton Street, Princeton, NJ 08540 Phone: 609-688-8779, ext. 309, Fax: 609-688-1027 E: mitch.muncy@gmail.com |
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| Mitch Muncy is executive director of the Alexander Hamilton Society and is in his second term on the IBPA board. Previously, he served as chief operating officer of the Institute for American Values in New York, and as executive vice president of Spence Publishing Company in Dallas, where he founded and directed its communications division, Spence Media. He and his wife live in Princeton, New Jersey, with their six children. | |
| Sara Nelson O, The Oprah Magazine Editorial Offices 300 West 57th Street, 36th Floor, New York, NY 10019 E: saranelson@hearst.com |
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| Sara Nelson is currently Books Director, for O, The Oprah Magazine. She was the editor-in-chief of Publishers Weekly from 2005 to 2009, during which time she overhauled the 135 year old magazine, which went on to win several editorial awards. A journalist for 25 years, Nelson has written publishing columns for the New York Observer and The New York Post. Her freelance pieces have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many national magazines. | |
| Mark Ouimet Vice President of Business Development, Ingram Publisher Services and Publisher Consumer Direct Fulfillment 14 Ingram Blvd., One Ingram Blvd., LaVergne, TN 37086 Phone: 615-213-5129 E: mark.ouimet@ingrambook.com www.ingrambook.com; www.ingrampublisherservices.com |
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| Mark Ouimet has been a part of the book industry for over 30 years. He began his career at the Stanford University Bookstore and worked as a buyer and a manager there for 13 years. In 1990, he joined Publishers Group West and served in a variety of roles at PGW including as Executive Vice President of Marketing and as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. In 2004 he left PGW for the publishing side of the industry and went on to become the Associate Publisher and Director of Sales and Marketing at North Atlantic Books in Berkeley, California. Mark joined Ingram Publisher Services in June 2007 as Vice President, Business Development. He has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of IBPA. | |
| Craig Pollock Ingram Book Company One Ingram Blvd., La Vergne, TN 37086 Phone: 615-213-5529 E: craig.pollock@ingrambook.com www.ingrambook.com |
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| Craig joined Ingram Book Company in 1992 and serves as the senior manager of supplier services, supporting Ingram Book Company's purchasing department. He manages the new vendor program, including Ingram's relationship with Lightning Source Inc. Craig also manages Ingram's Publisher ipage functions, the International Sales Plan program, and the tracking of Ingram's wholesale coop related activities. He has worked as an independent bookstore manager, served multiple terms on the BEA board, is a founding member of the Miami Book Fair International, and chairs several committees for the Southern Festival of Books. | |
| Anthony Pomes Director of Marketing & Publicity/Rights Square One Publishers 115 Herricks Road, Garden City Park, NY 11040 Phone: 516-535-2010, Fax: 516-535-2014 E: sq1marketing@aol.com www.squareonepublishers.com |
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| Anthony Pomes, who is Director of Marketing and Publicity at Square One Publishers, previously worked as Publicity Manager for Penguin Group (USA). He has worked in book publishing for more than a decade in a variety of roles, from editor and typesetter to publicist and sales/rights director. He has also written articles for Newsday and has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Orlando Sentinel, The Arizona Republic and Publishers Weekly among other publications. | |
| Ron Powers Vice President-Global Sales Lightning Source 1246 Heil Quaker Blvd., La Vergne, TN USA 37086 Phone: (615) 213-5815, Fax: (615) 213-4725 www.lightningsource.com |
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| Ron Powers joined Lightning Source in 2006 as Vice President of Sales. Mr. Powers has over 20 years experience as an executive in both book publishing and distribution. Prior to joining Lightning Source, Mr. Powers held key executive positions at Ingram Book Group. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Product Management and Merchandise, where he managed publishers in the trade, professional, and educational segments of the industry. Earlier in his career, Mr. Powers held the positions of President of Book Publishing Group at CRC Press and Editorial Director of the Professional Book Group at McGraw Hill. Ron received his BA from King College in 1975. He is married with one daughter and resides in Nashville. | |
| Dan Poynter Publisher Para Publishing PO Box 8206, Santa Barbara, CA 93118 Phone: 805-968-7277, Fax: 805-968-1379 E: DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com ParaPublishing.com |
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| Dan Poynter is an author (100+ books), publisher (since 1969), speaker (CSP). His seminars have been featured on CNN, his books have been pictured in The Wall Street Journal and his story has been told in US News & World Report. The media come to Dan because he is the leading authority on book promotion. A professional speaker, he travels more than 6,000 miles each week to share his book plan. Dan is a past vice-president of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA, formerly PMA). He lives in Santa Barbara. | |
| Tony Proe Vice President of Business Development The BookMasters Group 30 Amberwood Parkway, Ashland, Ohio 44805 Phone: 315-679-3627 E: tproe@bookmasters.com www.bookmasters.com/ |
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Tony Proe is a veteran salesman with broad expertise in bringing books to market. With roots in general retail and college stores, he has special strengths with the small and medium publishers. Proe formed the commissioned sales group Proe & Proe Associates in 1991 to cover the traditional trade, but transformed his organization into a multichannel sales force bringing the smaller presses onto the same playing field as the larger houses in the non traditional accounts. |
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| Dominique Raccah Publisher and CEO Sourcebooks 1935 Brookdale Road, Suite 139, Naperville, IL 60563 Phone: 630-961-3900 x224 E: Dominique.Raccah@sourcebooks.com www.sourcebooks.com |
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| Dominique Raccah founded Sourcebooks in 1987. Now, 22 years later, Sourcebooks publishes #1 titles in parenting and college guides, an important group of novelists (published by Sourcebooks Landmark), a new children's imprint (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky), a new YA imprint (Sourcebooks Fire), and an ever-expanding roster of business relationships (including U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, The History Channel and Playskool). Sourcebooks has published 14 New York Times bestsellers (so far). Today, Sourcebooks is a leading poetry publisher and publishes a line of groundbreaking multimedia titles (Sourcebooks MediaFusion). The company has over 70 employees and publishes over 300 new titles each year. Dominique currently serves as co-chair of the Book Industry Study Group. | |
| Jack Sallay VP of Marketing Vook E: jack@vook.com www.vook.com |
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| Jack Sallay, VP of Marketing: Jack Sallay joins Vook after four years with Simon & Schuster, where he helped devise and implement publishing campaigns for many high profile projects including many New York Times bestsellers. He also served on the product marketing team at the leading online video platform, Brightcove. He is a recent graduate of the Harvard Business School. | |
| Lindsey Shuck Consortium Book Sales & Distribution The Keg House, 34 Thirteenth Avenue NE, Suite 101, Minneapolis, MN 55413 Phone: 612-746-2534 E: lshuck@cbsd.com www.cbsd.com |
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| Rudy Shur Publisher Square One Publishers 115 Herricks Road, Garden City Park, NY 11040 Phone: 516-535-2010, Fax: 516-535-2014 E: sq1info@aol.com www.squareonepublishers.com |
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| Rudy Shur began his publishing career working for Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company and later William C. Brown Publishing Company. In 1976, he cofounded Avery Publishing Group, where he was responsible for the acquisition of over 1,000 nonfiction titles, many of which became bestsellers. By 1999, the company had grown into one of the largest alternative health publishers in the US. In that year, Avery was purchased by Penguin Putnam. The following year, Mr. Shur founded Square One Publishers in Garden City Park, New York, where he currently heads the editorial program. For the last four years, Square One has been selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the fastest growing independent publishing houses in the US. He is also the author of How To Publish Your Nonfiction Book. Mr. Shur continues to lecture extensively on the topic of publishing at universities, colleges and professional workshops throughout the country. | |
| Carlene Sippola Publisher Whole Person Associates, Inc. 210 West Michigan Street, Duluth, MN 55802-1908 Phone: 218-727-0500, Fax: 218-727-0505 E: carlene@wholeperson.com www.wholeperson.com |
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| Carlene is owner and CEO of Whole Person Associates, a publishing company based in Duluth MN that publishes training resources in the areas of stress management, wellness promotion, mental health, and healthy lifestyle. Carlene started her publishing career at Whole Person Associates twenty-seven years ago. She served as marketing director of both Whole Person Associates and its imprint Pfeifer-Hamilton Publishers. Later she became publisher of Whole Person Associates and eight years ago she purchased the company from its founders. IBPA has played an important role in the development of Carlene’s publishing career. She was proud to serve on the IBPA board for four years and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors. | |
| Marcella Smith Barnes & Noble, Inc. 122 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10011 Phone: 212-633-3300 E: msmithx@bn.com www.barnesandnobleinc.com |
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| Marcella is the director of small press and vendor relations for Barnes & Noble, Inc. She got into the business over 30 years ago in Washington, DC, where she began working in an independent bookshop. Since then she has worked in and managed two other bookstores, been a sales rep for St. Martin's Press and a marketing manager at Simon & Schuster. She is a former member of the board of directors for Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA, formerly PMA), and sits on the Small Press Center's Advisory Council. | |
| Danny O. Snow Unlimited Publishing, LLC P.O. Box 3007, Bloomington, IN 47402 Phone: 800-218-8877; 415-632-3538 E: dan@unlimitedpublishing.com www.unlimitedpublishing.com |
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| Harvard graduate Danny O. Snow is a senior fellow of The Society for New Communications Research (SNCR.org), a Palo Alto based nonprofit global think tank dedicated to the advanced study of new and emerging media. He has managed Unlimited Publishing LLC, “The Professional POD Book Publisher™,” since 2000. Snow also works as a consultant to fellow authors and publishers, as a public speaker, and as a journalist who has been widely quoted by major news media about new publishing and communication technologies. In 2009, he signed with Wiley & Sons as a contributor to its upcoming book titled Print on Demand Book Publishing for Dummies. | |
| Richard Stark Director, Product Data Barnes & Noble 122 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10011 Phone: 212-352-3816 E: rstark@bn.com www.bn.com |
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| Nancy Stewart Lead Buyer Ingram Book Company Ingram Book Group, 14 Ingram Blvd, LaVergne, TN 37086 Phone: 615-213-5370 E: nancy.stewart@ingrambook.com www.ingrambook.com |
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| Nancy Stewart, a 30-year veteran of the book industry, holds the position of lead buyer at Ingram Book Company where she oversees the buying and operations of a wide variety of publishers. Previously she was general manager of Mills Bookstores, an independent bookstore group in Nashville, Tennessee. Nancy is past president of the Women's National Book Association and currently serves as WNBA representative to the United Nations. She has served as volunteer and book sales director for the Southern Festival of Books and president of the Nashville Area Booksellers Association. | |
| Mark Suchomel President Independent Publishers Group 814 N. Franklin Street, Chicago, IL 60610 Phone: 312-337-0747 ext. 209, Fax: 312-337-1807 E: suchomel@ipgbook.com www.ipgbook.com |
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| Mark Suchomel has been with Chicago Review Press, Inc./Independent Publishers Group(IPG) since 1986, and president of IPG since 1998. He began his career in publishing at Contemporary Books. Based in Chicago, IPG represents high quality, commercial book publishers and is one of the largest distributors of trade books in North America. IPG sells to the book trade as well as teacher supply stores, museum shops, mass merchandisers, gift shops, and other specialty wholesale and retail accounts. In 2007 IPG added the Trafalgar Square Publishing list, made up of most of the UK’s major publishing houses as well as the best independent publishers in the UK. In 2009 IPG started the Small Press United division to provide high level distribution to small and start-up publishers. | |
| Jon R. Tandler Corporate and Publishing Attorney Isaacson Rosenbaum, P.C. 1001 17th Street, Suite 1800, Denver, CO 80202 Phone:303-256-3987, Fax: 720-974-7950 E: jtandler@ir-law.com www.ir-law.com |
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| Jon is a Shareholder of Isaacson Rosenbaum P.C., a business and litigation Denver law firm. Jon specializes in corporate, publishing, and copyright law and serves as legal counsel to companies and individuals located throughout the United States. He has worked in his field for over 20 years, and represents publishers on business, transactional and intellectual property matters, prepares agreements and licenses for specific content acquisition and editorial models, and generally provides services to support clients' publishing and packaging programs in traditional and new media. Jon also practices software and information technology law, representing developers and institutions on licensing and support projects. Jon regularly teaches about publishing, serves on the faculty of the University of Denver Publishing Institute, and has lectured on the legal and financial aspects of book publishing in India and in the Caribbean for the World Intellectual Property Organization. | |
| Fran Toolan Firebrand Technologies 44 Merrimac Street, Newburyport, MA Phone: 978-465-7755 E: Fran@FireBrandTech.com www.firebrandtech.com |
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| Bina Valenzano The BookMark Shoppe 8415 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11209 Phone: 718-833-5115 E: bina@bookmarkshoppe.com www.bookmarkshoppe.com |
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| Bina Valenzano is co-owner of The BookMark Shoppe in Brooklyn, NY with her childhood friend. Originally opened in Dyker Heights in November, 2002, the store expanded and moved to Bay Ridge in October, 2006. Bina Valenzano graduated from The Fashion Institute of Technology with a degree in Marketing Communications and absolutely no bookselling background. After working full time at a small advertising agency, she decided to quit and open a bookstore. Since then, The BookMark Shoppe has hosted many events and successful promotions such as: closing three streets wide for the final Harry Potter bash; story-writing contests with young adults and celebrity book signings with Plaxico Burress, Alyssa Milano and Sylvia Browne. | |
| Kevin Votel Senior V.P. Marketing and New Business, PGW PGW/Perseus 1700 4th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710 Phone: 510-809-3720 E: kevin.votel@pgw.com www.pgw.com |
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| Richard T. Williams List Development Manager Small Press United, Independent Publishers Group 814 N. Franklin Street, Chicago, IL 60610 Phone: 312-337-0747 E: rwilliams@smallpressunited.com www.smallpressunited.com |
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| Thomas Woll President Cross River Publishing Consultants, Inc. 3 Holly Hill Lane, Katonah, NY 10536 Phone: 914-232-6708 E: twoll@pubconsultants.com www.pubconsultants.com |
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| Currently President of Cross River Publishing Consultants, Katonah, NY, Woll has over 25 years of senior-level publishing management experience including: VP & General Manager, John Wiley & Sons, Professional & Trade Division; VP & Publisher, Rodale Press; Publisher, Storey Communications; VP & Publisher, Beaufort Books; VP & General Manager, Vanguard Press. Former member of Independent Book Publishers Association's (IBPA, formerly PMA) Board of Directors; Chairman of AAP’s Smaller Publisher’s Group. Woll is also an Adjunct Professor of Publishing at NYU’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies and on the Advisory Board of the Small Press Center in NYC. Author of Publishing for Profit: Successful Bottom Line Management for Book Publishers (Chicago Review Press, 3rd edition 2006) and Selling Subsidiary Rights: An Insider's Guide (CRPC). Columnist, Book Business Magazine. | |
| Harriet Zeifert Blue Apple Books 515 Valley Street, Maplewood, NJ 07040 Phone: 973-763-8191, Fax: 415-537-4470 E: harriet@beginsmartbooks.com www.beginsmartbooks.com |
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IBPA STAFF
| Terry Nathan Executive Director Independent Book Publishers Association. 627 Aviation Way, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 Phone: 310.372.2732 E: terry@ibpa-online.org www.ibpa-online.org |
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| Terry Nathan, Executive Director of the Independent Book Publishers Association (formerly PMA), located in Manhattan Beach, CA, began his career in the world of book publishing at the ABA Show in Anaheim, CA in 1992. At that time, the association had reached a plateau with 900 members and the world of independent publishing was just beginning to explode. Over the past 18 years, Terry has played an integral part in helping the association grow to its current level of 3,200+ members. Under Terry’s leadership, IBPA continues to offer cutting edge educational programs and low-cost marketing programs, keeping close to mind IBPA’s motto of “Helping Each Other to Achieve and Succeed.” Terry also advocates for the rights of independent publishers, helping to level the playing field for small and mid-sized publishers. Terry grew up with his five brothers in Hermosa Beach, CA, enjoying the Southern California lifestyle. He moved to San Diego in 1984 where he received his MBA from National University. Terry resides in Southern California with his wife and two beautiful young children. When he is not working, Terry enjoys spending time with his family and playing golf. |
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| Lisa Krebs Assistant Director Independent Book Publishers Association. 627 Aviation Way, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266 Phone: 310.372.2732 E: lisa@ibpa-online.org www.ibpa-online.org |
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| Hired by then PMA in 1998, Lisa has been the sounding board for independent publishers for the past 12 years. She was previously contracted for West Coast publicity with Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books and Disney/Hyperion. | |
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| Chris Kahn joined IBPA early this year to manage vendor relations, advertising, sponsorship and media partnership opportunities. He has known what was then PMA since 1995 as Western Advertising Director for Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and School Library Journal. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and loves (in no particular order) listening to his wife Beverly play the ukulele, reading biographies, police procedurals and English ‘cozies’, wine (especially ones old, French & red), Los Gigantes de San Francisco, Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwin describing on the Tour de France, the beaches in Kaua’i, his cats Penny and Hector, Baja California and Puerto Vallarta, MX. | |
