Speaker Bios
Mark Bide, Executive Director, EDItEUR
Mark Bide is Executive Director of EDItEUR, the global trade standards organization responsible for the maintenance and publication of ONIX for Books. He is also the Project Director for the ACAP Project, and a Director of Rightscom, the specialist media consultancy.
Mark has worked in and around the publishing industry for nearly 40 years, having been a Director of the European subsidiaries of both CBS Publishing and John Wiley & Sons. He is a Visiting Professor of the University of the Arts London.
Kurt Biedler, Senior Manager of Business Development, Amazon.com
Kurt Biedler is Senior Manager of Business Development at Amazon.com. He has several years of experience in the books industry, including working with the industry leaders in printing, publishing and book retailing. Kurt also holds advanced degrees from Princeton University, Lehigh University and University of Washington.
Angela Bole, Deputy Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
Angela Bole is Deputy Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG). Based in New York City, BISG is an industry trade association working to create a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry supply chain for both digital and physical products
Sara Davis Anderson, Operations Manager, Harvard University Press
Sara Davis Anderson has been at Harvard University Press since 1999 and has worked in the acquisitions department, the distributed books program, the warehouse and the business office. Sara has a B.A. in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis and will receive an MBA from Northeastern University in August 2010.
Peter Brantley, Director, the BookServer Project, Internet Archive
Peter Brantley is the Director of the BookServer Project at the Internet Archive, a San Francisco based not-for-profit digital library. At the Archive, Peter has fostered the development and adoption of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS). With Gary Reback, he is co-founder of the Open Book Alliance, seeking an open and competitive market for digital books. Prior to working at the Internet Archive, he was Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation. He has been a member of the IDPF Board since 2007.
Keith Fahlgren, Publishing Technology Consultant, Threepress Consulting, Inc.
Keith Fahlgren is a Publishing Technology Consultant at Threepress Consulting, Inc. Keith was formerly a Publishing Technology Engineer at O'Reilly Media, where he developed systems that helped create, maintain, enhance and reuse content. He's been involved in extending O'Reilly's use of DocBook and the DocBook-XSL stylesheets and building an Atom Publishing Protocol infrastructure. Recently, Keith's been heavily involved with encouraging the adoption of the IDPF EPUB standard, reinvigorating O'Reilly Labs, launching a system for developing manuscripts collaboratively and kickstarting the OPDS Catalog specification process. Keith has spoken about DocBook, XML in Publishing and EPUB throughout the US and Canada.
Brian Green, Executive Director, International ISBN Agency
Currently Executive Director of the International ISBN Agency, until the beginning of this year Brian Green was also Executive Director of EDItEUR. From 2003-2008, Brian was Chair of ISO TC46 SC9, the ISO Committee responsible for identifiers in the information community.
Brian managed BIC, the UK book trade standards body, from 1991 until 2006 and, prior to that, was Director of Technology and Publishing Management at the UK Publishers Association after working in the publishing industry for many years.
Connie Harbison, Director of Authority Control, Database Management, Baker & Taylor
Connie Harbison, Director of Authority Control, Database Management at Baker & Taylor, has worked in the publishing industry for over 20 years. Connie has been involved in BISAC Executive Committee since 2004, when she took on the role of BISAC Subject Codes Committee Chair. She also serves as BISAC Secretary and is a member of the BISAC Metadata Committee. Connie lives in New Jersey with her husband, three children and two dogs.
Michael Healy, Former Executive Director, BISG
Michael Healy, Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. from 2006-2009, recently took on the position of Executive Director Designate of the Book Rights Registry.
Michael has been involved extensively in the development and management of standards for the book industry and has worked in the book industry since 1983. Before taking up his current role at BISG he was for seven years Editorial Director of Nielsen Book Services, one of the world's leading providers of information, transaction and market-measurement services to the book trade.
He has chaired the international committee that revised the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) standard and is a member of the ONIX International Steering Committee and the ISO committee developing the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI).
Brad Inman, CEO, Vook
Brad Inman is the founder of several successful online companies including HomeGain, which he sold to Classified Ventures in 2005; the thriving online video company TurnHere; and Inman News, the online real estate publishing company.
Patrick Javick, Director of Industry Development, GS1 US / EPCglobal US
Patrick Javick is responsible for industry strategy, marketing, and business development in the Retail Sector. In his position he is tied to the on-going RFID pilots and implementations within the Apparel, Fashion and Footwear, Media & Entertainment, and Consumer Electronics Industries. Patrick is also a co-facilitator for the RFID based Electronic Article Surveillance, Tag Alteration and Apparel, Fashion and Footwear EPCglobal Standards subgroups within GS1 Standards Development.
Jim Lichtenberg, President, Lightspeed, LLC
Starting in the early 1990s, as vice president at the Association of American Publishers, Jim Lichtenberg has been consulting and writing about the evolution of the Internet, information technology, and digital tools.
President of Lightspeed, LLC, a management consulting practice in New York City, Jim provides strategic counsel to clients in general business and book publishing including: The Conference Board, The Book Manufacturers Institute, Dell, Lightning Source, Houghton Mifflin, the American Library Association and the National Information Standards Organization. As board member of the Book Industry Study Group, he is leading an industry effort to assess the potential of RFID technology in the publishing value chain.
David Martin, ONIX Support Team, EDItEUR
David Martin is an independent consultant on standards for business communication in the book trade, working principally for EDItEUR, where he leads the team responsible for ONIX for Books.
David has been involved with metadata standards for most of his career, at INSPEC, at the British Library, where he was Director of Automated Services for six years, and as a founder Director of Book Data Ltd (now part of Nielsen BookData).
Carolyn Pittis, SVP, Global Marketing Strategy and Operations, HarperCollins
Carolyn Pittis is Senior Vice President, Global Marketing Strategy and Operations for HarperCollins Publishers. In this role she is responsible for defining the high level strategic direction of the HarperCollins online direct to consumer marketing initiatives, including its overall Web site, email marketing, and third party marketing partner strategies. She supervises a team that has both local and global responsibility for building scalable marketing platforms to connect authors to consumers online. Her cross-functional team works closely with divisional publishers to identify and define digital business opportunities emerging in today's publishing marketplace.
Carolyn has worked in a variety of positions at HarperCollins in her 18-year career at the company, including senior responsibilities in the HarperCollins Publishing+ initiative, and in consumer sales forecasting, marketing technology, digital asset management, and business development. In these roles, she has specialized in using data and technology to drive publishing efficiency and effectiveness. She began her publishing career at Leisure Books in 1989.
She holds a bachelors and masters in history from Colgate University and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively, and is a 2004 graduate of the EITM program at Columbia University. In 2009, she was named as one of the top fifty women executives in book publishing.
Dominique Raccah, Co-Chair, BISG Board of Directors
Dominique Raccah founded Sourcebooks, one of the nation's leading independent book publishers, in the spare bedroom of her house in 1987. Born in Paris, France before moving to the U.S. when she was 9, she attended the University of Illinois where she acquired a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in quantitative psychology. Dominique was in the midst of a flourishing career in advertising with the Leo Burnett Agency in Chicago when her lifetime love of books proved too strong a calling and she left to pursue publishing.
Dominique began Sourcebooks, then a specialty house serving the financial services industry, with money borrowed against her own retirement fund (all of $17,000 to be precise). Her vision for the company changed over the years as she began to see what innovative and provocative publishing could accomplish, as well as what advantages an independent, entrepreneurial vision could bestow in the rapidly consolidating industry. Her endless drive and unique vision helped to lead Sourcebooks to the New York Times bestseller list eight different times (so far), with spectacular successes across the non-fiction spectrum, as well as bestsellers in fiction and a line of groundbreaking multimedia titles (Sourcebooks MediaFusion). Dominique has never given up her desire to create, as she continues to act as the series editor for poetry projects (including Poetry Speaks and Poetry Speaks to Children) and the Sourcebooks Shakespeare series.
Now, twenty years after its conception, Dominique and all of Sourcebooks celebrate their success with number one titles in parenting and college guides, a brand new children's imprint (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky), and an ever-expanding roster of business relationships (including U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, The History Channel and the recently announced agreement with Playskool). She is proud to not only be a leading publisher of poetry, a personal passion, but also the largest woman-owned trade book publisher in the country. In the past few years, Dominique has received The Blue Chip Enterprise Award, was inducted into the University of Illinois Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame and won the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Illinois and Northwest Indiana. She has served on the board of the Committee of 200 and now serves as co-chair of the Book Industry Study Group, the U.S. book industry's leading trade association for research and supply chain standards and policies.
Today, Sourcebooks has 70 employees, publishes over 200 new titles each year and is still based in Naperville, Illinois, where Dominique lives with her husband, Ray in the same house where Sourcebooks was born.
Michele Southall, Director of Community Development, GS1 US
As Director of Community Development, Michele Southall works with GS1 members to define best business practices for standards based solutions.
Michele has been on staff with EPCglobal US since late 2003, with prior participation as Global Standards Director for GS1 US, where she was responsible for the development of standards for the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN).
She also previously held the position of Product Manager for EC Standards Compliance for 1SYNC, (then known as UCCnet), a not-for-profit subsidiary of GS1 US that provides product registry and data synchronization services.
Richard Stark, Director of Product Data, Barnes & Noble
Richard Stark is the Director of Product Data for Barnes & Noble, a position he has held for the past eleven years. He has been active in book industry standards since 1995. Since 1999, Richard has chaired the BISAC Metadata Committee, the group that governs bibliographic data standards for the U.S. book industry. He was a member of the ISO working group that revised the ISBN standard and the ISO working group that developed the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI).
Richard has been a bookseller for twenty years. His experience includes positions in store management and purchasing at Barnes & Noble, Borders, and independent booksellers. He was educated in the Great Books Program at St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM.
Lynn Terhune, Global Digital Print Administrator, John Wiley & Sons / Corporate
Lynn Terhune, Global Digital Print Administrator of John Wiley & Sons / Corporate, has over 20 years of production, manufacturing and estimating experience in the publishing industry. Over the past 12 years Lynn has led the Wiley charge to keep books in print through the use of digital printing.
In 1995 Lynn joined Wiley as an Estimating Manager for the Publishing Support Operations group in Corporate Finance. In 2003, with a whole team of IT, Operations, Inventory and Manufacturing folks behind her, she launched the Wiley US POD Program which now includes over 11,000 titles and has grown to become a multi-million dollar revenue opportunity for Wiley.
Lynn began her publishing career from a temporary position that turned permanent in the Production Department at Cliggott Publishing, a medical journal publisher. She learned book production at the American Bible Society and then took a Production Manager position at Longmeadow Press, Waldenbooks' proprietary publishing company.
Lynn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Design from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Lynn has been quoted in several industry pieces regarding Wiley's Global Demand Print Program success and she is the co-author of Wiley's internal customer care resource guide, Print on Demand For DummiesŪ. She also helped edit and contribute to Digital Book Printing For DummiesŪ for the industry in partnership with BISG. In the May 2009 issue of Book Business magazine, Lynn was named to the prestigious list of "50 Top Women in Book Publishing." In October 2009, Lynn was the keynote speaker at an event in Brazil for Bandeirantes Graphica's launch of their Books on Demand Program.
Tom Turvey, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google
Tom Turvey is Director, Strategic Partnerships, in the Search Services group at Google in support of Google Book Search, Google Scholar, Google News Archive Search, Google Magazines and other print-based content-related products. Google Book Search, where Tom began his tenure at Google, launched in October 2004 and now contains the searchable full-texts of more than 1.5 million books from over 25,000 of the world's most important book publishers at: http://books.google.com
Tom and his team are responsible for signing the majority of the world's largest publishers for these products, now live in over 90 countries globally.
Tom came to Google having spent nearly 20 years in book publishing, book-based eCommerce, and institutional content licensing.
Previous to Google, Tom was Vice President, Content and Business Development for ebrary, a publisher-funded content aggregator. Prior to ebrary, Tom was the founding Director of the Publisher Relations and Merchandising Analysis group at Barnes and Noble.com. His team's responsibilities at bn.com included building the vendor relations and merchandising infrastructure, creating relationships and terms of business with all book publishers, and leading all vendor-based negotiations. Turvey also juggled launching the eBook business while at Barnes and Noble.com, having negotiated the deals and supervised the worldwide product launches of eBook platforms, Microsoft Reader and Adobe eBook Reader.
Tom has spent much of his career growing the book business in new channels. Before joining Barnes and Noble.com, he was Director, Online Sales and Marketing at HarperCollins Publishers (the first job of its kind in the book industry), where he pioneered the online bookselling channel as early as 1996. At HarperCollins, he established trading terms and relationships with Barnes and Noble.com, Amazon.com, Borders and many other online retailers. Tom was also general manager for several bookstores in Manhattan of different kinds and niches.
Tom has been a keynote speaker at major book publishing gatherings worldwide, including Book Expo America, Hong Kong Book Fair, Association of American Publishers Annual Meeting, Publishers' Association (UK) Annual General Meeting, Association of American University Presses Annual Meeting, Children's Book Council, London Book Fair, Book Expo Canada, the Charleston Conference, Cape Town Book Fair, Taipei International Book Fair, Bogota International Book Fair, Guadalajara International Book Fair, Professional Scholarly Publishers Association and many more.
Tom holds a B.A. in political science from Oklahoma State University.
Mark Bide is Executive Director of EDItEUR, the global trade standards organization responsible for the maintenance and publication of ONIX for Books. He is also the Project Director for the ACAP Project, and a Director of Rightscom, the specialist media consultancy.Mark has worked in and around the publishing industry for nearly 40 years, having been a Director of the European subsidiaries of both CBS Publishing and John Wiley & Sons. He is a Visiting Professor of the University of the Arts London.
Kurt Biedler, Senior Manager of Business Development, Amazon.com
Kurt Biedler is Senior Manager of Business Development at Amazon.com. He has several years of experience in the books industry, including working with the industry leaders in printing, publishing and book retailing. Kurt also holds advanced degrees from Princeton University, Lehigh University and University of Washington.Angela Bole, Deputy Executive Director, Book Industry Study Group, Inc.
Angela Bole is Deputy Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG). Based in New York City, BISG is an industry trade association working to create a more informed, empowered and efficient book industry supply chain for both digital and physical productsSara Davis Anderson, Operations Manager, Harvard University Press
Sara Davis Anderson has been at Harvard University Press since 1999 and has worked in the acquisitions department, the distributed books program, the warehouse and the business office. Sara has a B.A. in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis and will receive an MBA from Northeastern University in August 2010.Peter Brantley, Director, the BookServer Project, Internet Archive
Peter Brantley is the Director of the BookServer Project at the Internet Archive, a San Francisco based not-for-profit digital library. At the Archive, Peter has fostered the development and adoption of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS). With Gary Reback, he is co-founder of the Open Book Alliance, seeking an open and competitive market for digital books. Prior to working at the Internet Archive, he was Executive Director of the Digital Library Federation. He has been a member of the IDPF Board since 2007.Keith Fahlgren, Publishing Technology Consultant, Threepress Consulting, Inc.
Keith Fahlgren is a Publishing Technology Consultant at Threepress Consulting, Inc. Keith was formerly a Publishing Technology Engineer at O'Reilly Media, where he developed systems that helped create, maintain, enhance and reuse content. He's been involved in extending O'Reilly's use of DocBook and the DocBook-XSL stylesheets and building an Atom Publishing Protocol infrastructure. Recently, Keith's been heavily involved with encouraging the adoption of the IDPF EPUB standard, reinvigorating O'Reilly Labs, launching a system for developing manuscripts collaboratively and kickstarting the OPDS Catalog specification process. Keith has spoken about DocBook, XML in Publishing and EPUB throughout the US and Canada.Brian Green, Executive Director, International ISBN Agency
Currently Executive Director of the International ISBN Agency, until the beginning of this year Brian Green was also Executive Director of EDItEUR. From 2003-2008, Brian was Chair of ISO TC46 SC9, the ISO Committee responsible for identifiers in the information community.Brian managed BIC, the UK book trade standards body, from 1991 until 2006 and, prior to that, was Director of Technology and Publishing Management at the UK Publishers Association after working in the publishing industry for many years.
Connie Harbison, Director of Authority Control, Database Management, Baker & Taylor
Connie Harbison, Director of Authority Control, Database Management at Baker & Taylor, has worked in the publishing industry for over 20 years. Connie has been involved in BISAC Executive Committee since 2004, when she took on the role of BISAC Subject Codes Committee Chair. She also serves as BISAC Secretary and is a member of the BISAC Metadata Committee. Connie lives in New Jersey with her husband, three children and two dogs.Michael Healy, Former Executive Director, BISG
Michael Healy, Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. from 2006-2009, recently took on the position of Executive Director Designate of the Book Rights Registry.Michael has been involved extensively in the development and management of standards for the book industry and has worked in the book industry since 1983. Before taking up his current role at BISG he was for seven years Editorial Director of Nielsen Book Services, one of the world's leading providers of information, transaction and market-measurement services to the book trade.
He has chaired the international committee that revised the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) standard and is a member of the ONIX International Steering Committee and the ISO committee developing the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI).
Brad Inman, CEO, Vook
Brad Inman is the founder of several successful online companies including HomeGain, which he sold to Classified Ventures in 2005; the thriving online video company TurnHere; and Inman News, the online real estate publishing company.Patrick Javick, Director of Industry Development, GS1 US / EPCglobal US
Patrick Javick is responsible for industry strategy, marketing, and business development in the Retail Sector. In his position he is tied to the on-going RFID pilots and implementations within the Apparel, Fashion and Footwear, Media & Entertainment, and Consumer Electronics Industries. Patrick is also a co-facilitator for the RFID based Electronic Article Surveillance, Tag Alteration and Apparel, Fashion and Footwear EPCglobal Standards subgroups within GS1 Standards Development. Jim Lichtenberg, President, Lightspeed, LLC
Starting in the early 1990s, as vice president at the Association of American Publishers, Jim Lichtenberg has been consulting and writing about the evolution of the Internet, information technology, and digital tools.President of Lightspeed, LLC, a management consulting practice in New York City, Jim provides strategic counsel to clients in general business and book publishing including: The Conference Board, The Book Manufacturers Institute, Dell, Lightning Source, Houghton Mifflin, the American Library Association and the National Information Standards Organization. As board member of the Book Industry Study Group, he is leading an industry effort to assess the potential of RFID technology in the publishing value chain.
David Martin, ONIX Support Team, EDItEUR
David Martin is an independent consultant on standards for business communication in the book trade, working principally for EDItEUR, where he leads the team responsible for ONIX for Books.David has been involved with metadata standards for most of his career, at INSPEC, at the British Library, where he was Director of Automated Services for six years, and as a founder Director of Book Data Ltd (now part of Nielsen BookData).
Carolyn Pittis, SVP, Global Marketing Strategy and Operations, HarperCollins
Carolyn Pittis is Senior Vice President, Global Marketing Strategy and Operations for HarperCollins Publishers. In this role she is responsible for defining the high level strategic direction of the HarperCollins online direct to consumer marketing initiatives, including its overall Web site, email marketing, and third party marketing partner strategies. She supervises a team that has both local and global responsibility for building scalable marketing platforms to connect authors to consumers online. Her cross-functional team works closely with divisional publishers to identify and define digital business opportunities emerging in today's publishing marketplace. Carolyn has worked in a variety of positions at HarperCollins in her 18-year career at the company, including senior responsibilities in the HarperCollins Publishing+ initiative, and in consumer sales forecasting, marketing technology, digital asset management, and business development. In these roles, she has specialized in using data and technology to drive publishing efficiency and effectiveness. She began her publishing career at Leisure Books in 1989.
She holds a bachelors and masters in history from Colgate University and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, respectively, and is a 2004 graduate of the EITM program at Columbia University. In 2009, she was named as one of the top fifty women executives in book publishing.
Dominique Raccah, Co-Chair, BISG Board of Directors
Dominique Raccah founded Sourcebooks, one of the nation's leading independent book publishers, in the spare bedroom of her house in 1987. Born in Paris, France before moving to the U.S. when she was 9, she attended the University of Illinois where she acquired a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in quantitative psychology. Dominique was in the midst of a flourishing career in advertising with the Leo Burnett Agency in Chicago when her lifetime love of books proved too strong a calling and she left to pursue publishing. Dominique began Sourcebooks, then a specialty house serving the financial services industry, with money borrowed against her own retirement fund (all of $17,000 to be precise). Her vision for the company changed over the years as she began to see what innovative and provocative publishing could accomplish, as well as what advantages an independent, entrepreneurial vision could bestow in the rapidly consolidating industry. Her endless drive and unique vision helped to lead Sourcebooks to the New York Times bestseller list eight different times (so far), with spectacular successes across the non-fiction spectrum, as well as bestsellers in fiction and a line of groundbreaking multimedia titles (Sourcebooks MediaFusion). Dominique has never given up her desire to create, as she continues to act as the series editor for poetry projects (including Poetry Speaks and Poetry Speaks to Children) and the Sourcebooks Shakespeare series.
Now, twenty years after its conception, Dominique and all of Sourcebooks celebrate their success with number one titles in parenting and college guides, a brand new children's imprint (Sourcebooks Jabberwocky), and an ever-expanding roster of business relationships (including U.S. News and World Report, Forbes, The History Channel and the recently announced agreement with Playskool). She is proud to not only be a leading publisher of poetry, a personal passion, but also the largest woman-owned trade book publisher in the country. In the past few years, Dominique has received The Blue Chip Enterprise Award, was inducted into the University of Illinois Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame and won the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Illinois and Northwest Indiana. She has served on the board of the Committee of 200 and now serves as co-chair of the Book Industry Study Group, the U.S. book industry's leading trade association for research and supply chain standards and policies.
Today, Sourcebooks has 70 employees, publishes over 200 new titles each year and is still based in Naperville, Illinois, where Dominique lives with her husband, Ray in the same house where Sourcebooks was born.
Michele Southall, Director of Community Development, GS1 US
As Director of Community Development, Michele Southall works with GS1 members to define best business practices for standards based solutions.Michele has been on staff with EPCglobal US since late 2003, with prior participation as Global Standards Director for GS1 US, where she was responsible for the development of standards for the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN).
She also previously held the position of Product Manager for EC Standards Compliance for 1SYNC, (then known as UCCnet), a not-for-profit subsidiary of GS1 US that provides product registry and data synchronization services.
Richard Stark, Director of Product Data, Barnes & Noble
Richard Stark is the Director of Product Data for Barnes & Noble, a position he has held for the past eleven years. He has been active in book industry standards since 1995. Since 1999, Richard has chaired the BISAC Metadata Committee, the group that governs bibliographic data standards for the U.S. book industry. He was a member of the ISO working group that revised the ISBN standard and the ISO working group that developed the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI).Richard has been a bookseller for twenty years. His experience includes positions in store management and purchasing at Barnes & Noble, Borders, and independent booksellers. He was educated in the Great Books Program at St. John's College in Santa Fe, NM.
Lynn Terhune, Global Digital Print Administrator, John Wiley & Sons / Corporate
Lynn Terhune, Global Digital Print Administrator of John Wiley & Sons / Corporate, has over 20 years of production, manufacturing and estimating experience in the publishing industry. Over the past 12 years Lynn has led the Wiley charge to keep books in print through the use of digital printing.In 1995 Lynn joined Wiley as an Estimating Manager for the Publishing Support Operations group in Corporate Finance. In 2003, with a whole team of IT, Operations, Inventory and Manufacturing folks behind her, she launched the Wiley US POD Program which now includes over 11,000 titles and has grown to become a multi-million dollar revenue opportunity for Wiley.
Lynn began her publishing career from a temporary position that turned permanent in the Production Department at Cliggott Publishing, a medical journal publisher. She learned book production at the American Bible Society and then took a Production Manager position at Longmeadow Press, Waldenbooks' proprietary publishing company.
Lynn holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Design from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Lynn has been quoted in several industry pieces regarding Wiley's Global Demand Print Program success and she is the co-author of Wiley's internal customer care resource guide, Print on Demand For DummiesŪ. She also helped edit and contribute to Digital Book Printing For DummiesŪ for the industry in partnership with BISG. In the May 2009 issue of Book Business magazine, Lynn was named to the prestigious list of "50 Top Women in Book Publishing." In October 2009, Lynn was the keynote speaker at an event in Brazil for Bandeirantes Graphica's launch of their Books on Demand Program.
Tom Turvey, Director, Strategic Partnerships, Google
Tom Turvey is Director, Strategic Partnerships, in the Search Services group at Google in support of Google Book Search, Google Scholar, Google News Archive Search, Google Magazines and other print-based content-related products. Google Book Search, where Tom began his tenure at Google, launched in October 2004 and now contains the searchable full-texts of more than 1.5 million books from over 25,000 of the world's most important book publishers at: http://books.google.comTom and his team are responsible for signing the majority of the world's largest publishers for these products, now live in over 90 countries globally.
Tom came to Google having spent nearly 20 years in book publishing, book-based eCommerce, and institutional content licensing.
Previous to Google, Tom was Vice President, Content and Business Development for ebrary, a publisher-funded content aggregator. Prior to ebrary, Tom was the founding Director of the Publisher Relations and Merchandising Analysis group at Barnes and Noble.com. His team's responsibilities at bn.com included building the vendor relations and merchandising infrastructure, creating relationships and terms of business with all book publishers, and leading all vendor-based negotiations. Turvey also juggled launching the eBook business while at Barnes and Noble.com, having negotiated the deals and supervised the worldwide product launches of eBook platforms, Microsoft Reader and Adobe eBook Reader.
Tom has spent much of his career growing the book business in new channels. Before joining Barnes and Noble.com, he was Director, Online Sales and Marketing at HarperCollins Publishers (the first job of its kind in the book industry), where he pioneered the online bookselling channel as early as 1996. At HarperCollins, he established trading terms and relationships with Barnes and Noble.com, Amazon.com, Borders and many other online retailers. Tom was also general manager for several bookstores in Manhattan of different kinds and niches.
Tom has been a keynote speaker at major book publishing gatherings worldwide, including Book Expo America, Hong Kong Book Fair, Association of American Publishers Annual Meeting, Publishers' Association (UK) Annual General Meeting, Association of American University Presses Annual Meeting, Children's Book Council, London Book Fair, Book Expo Canada, the Charleston Conference, Cape Town Book Fair, Taipei International Book Fair, Bogota International Book Fair, Guadalajara International Book Fair, Professional Scholarly Publishers Association and many more.
Tom holds a B.A. in political science from Oklahoma State University.