Randy McKenzie, National Sales Manger for AtlasBooks and Shelley Saypyta, Account Executive, attended Author 101 University in Los Angeles, California, March 5th and 6th.
This year more than 376 attendees participated in this educational publishing event. Randy and Shelley met with many potential new publishing partners as well as some of our existing partners, who came [...]
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Author 101 – Los Angeles, California
Posted in Department News, Industry News, Trade Shows on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Posted in Department News, Industry News, Trade Shows on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Bologna Children’s Book Fair, known as the world’s leading children’s publishing event, is fast approaching. This year’s spring meeting will be held at the Bologna Fair Exhibition Centre, March 23rd through March 26th.
In its 47th edition, publishers, authors, illustrators, literary agents, TV/Film professionals, licensors and licensees, packagers, distributors, printers, booksellers and librarians meet in Bologna to buy and [...]
Tony Proe Named VP of Business Development
Posted in Department News on February 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
BookMasters is pleased to announce the appointment of Tony Proe as Vice President of Business Development for BookMasters Distribution.
Proe has extensive industry experience with roots in general retail and college stores. A veteran salesman, he has broad expertise in bringing books to market with special strengths with the small and medium publishers. Having formed Proe [...]
Year in Review
Posted in Department News, Digital Books, Industry News, Manufacturing on December 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Over this past year, The BookMasters Group has expanded its manufacturing capacities to match clients’ needs for increased speed and quality.
Following the expansion of its distribution services division, BookMasters installed a Timsons web book press to accommodate longer print runs. One of only a handful in the world, the press has three interchangeable print cylinders [...]
Digital Services
Posted in Department News, Digital Books on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On November 17th, Claire Holloway and Elaine Lattanzi of Digital Services paid a visit to Carnegie Learning in Pittsburgh to kick off new projects. Throughout the long day of meetings, they learned about the current market need, discussed the ins-and-outs of schedules and resources, and shared how we can use an XML workflow to gain [...]