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NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK NAMES ERIC STERN VICE PRESIDENT, MIS

We are pleased to announce that Eric Stern has been appointed Vice President of MIS at National Book Network. Eric will be located in the company’s Blue Ridge Summit, PA offices.

Eric has been involved with information technologies for 20 years, most recently as IT Director at a material handling company in New Jersey. Prior to that, he was Group Information Technology Director at Taylor & Francis in Philadelphia (now part of the Informa Group). While at Taylor & Francis, Eric oversaw the growth of the IT department, successfully implemented several new computer systems, and converted key software applications to accommodate the company’s rapid growth.

Eric is a graduate of Temple University and holds a Master of Sciences degree in Management from Drexel University in Philadelphia.

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NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK NAMES DONALD MELINSKY VICE PRESIDENT, BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

National Book Network (NBN) is pleased to announce the hiring of Donald E. Melinsky as Vice President, Business Management.

This new position was created to help NBN run more efficiently and more cost-effectively. Don will be responsible for examining business functions, cost controls, and purchasing. Don is a team-oriented individual who will work collaboratively with NBN’s management team to help them achieve greater financial success. He will report to NBN’s President, Jed Lyons, and work out of the company’s Blue Ridge Summit (PA) office.

Don most recently served as Vice President, Financial Planning at Voyager Learning (formerly ProQuest). There he worked with the CFO to lower costs, implemented weekly cash flow forecasting, and oversaw corporate financial planning and reporting activities for the executive committee. From 1996 to 2000, he was the CFO of Delmar Publishers and South-Western Educational Publishing, where he reengineered the inventory management process and developed a team-level profit and loss planning and reporting system. He has also served as Associate Business Manager at the Simon & Schuster Education Group and as Director of Business Planning and Analysis at Maxwell Macmillan, where he supervised the corporate planning and analysis functions, including strategic planning, capital appropriation control and review, and the development of a five-year business plan for all of the Macmillan companies.

Don has a BS in Accounting from Fairleigh Dickinson University and an MBA in Finance from Pace University.

 

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NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK APPOINTS CLAUDIA REMLEY
VICE PRESIDENT OF NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Claudia Remley has joined NBN and The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group as Vice President for New Business Development at Cooper Square, the new joint venture between the company and a major New York financial institution.

Claudia Remley is an experienced book publishing professional with many years of marketing and management responsibilities at some of the major publishers in the book industry. She was a strategic planning analyst and a financial planning analyst at Simon & Schuster; director of marketing and planning for the education and supplementary groups of Simon & Schuster; director of reading marketing for the instructional materials group of Scholastic; director of marketing at Harper Collins Interactive; vice president of marketing, vice president for product development and product marketing and ultimately president of the Globe Fearon Educational Publishers division of Simon & Schuster/Pearson Education. Since 1999, she has been running her own publishing consulting business called Topaz Educational Services. In addition to her B.S. in business administration from Lehigh University, Claudia earned her CPA while auditing at KPMG Peat Marwick in New York.

We are delighted to welcome Claudia to the Cooper Square team.

About National Book Network:

Founded in 1986, National Book Network (NBN) is a dynamic, service-oriented sales, marketing, and distribution company servicing North American and overseas publishers of commercial fiction and nonfiction books and audio titles. Customers include every venue for book sales, including traditional, nontraditional, and online accounts in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and Europe. NBN provides its customers with extensive, in-depth sales and marketing consultation to make them better, more successful publishers. NBN is a subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.

About The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group:

The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. is one of the largest and fastest growing independent publishers and distributors in North America. The company publishes under a dozen imprints in virtually all fields in the humanities and social sciences. While celebrating their 32nd anniversary in 2007, the group will publish 1,325 new academic, reference, and general interest books and 11 journals. More than 20,000 new books have been published since the company was founded in 1975.

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NBN APPOINTS NEIL LEVIN SR. VICE-PRESIDENT

The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. and National Book Network, Inc., announced today that Neil Levin has been hired as Senior Vice President for both companies. Neil begins work today in our Lanham offices.

Neil will report to Jed Lyons, President and CEO. Michael Sullivan, VP of Sales at NBN for the past 11 years, retains that title and will continue to play an instrumental role in assisting Neil in managing the NBN sales organization. In addition to overseeing all NBN sales activity, Neil will also be responsible for spearheading a new sales effort for RLPG directed at wholesalers, retailers, and specialty accounts.

Neil brings more than twenty years of senior publishing and sales management experience over a broad range of publishing genres and expertise in non-traditional retail sales. He has been President of Publisher Marketing Group, a full-service provider of strategic sales, marketing, and operations solutions for media and publishing clients including AARP, Martha Stewart Living, Barnes & Noble Publishing, Octopus Publishing Group, Sunset, and Oxmoor House. Prior to forming PMG, Levin was Vice President and Publisher of Time Life Trade Books, the retail and custom publishing arm of Time Life Books. At Time Life, Levin developed signature brand expansion programs for high-profile companies like Williams Sonoma, The Nature Company, Mrs. Fields, Discovery Channel, and Old Farmer's Almanac. While the traditional trade channels flourished, Neil's emphasis on building strong non-bookstore channels-special markets, warehouse clubs, mass market, display marketing--resulted in quintupled sales at Time Life in three years. Neil also brings imaginative strategic thinking, enthusiasm, strong relationship-building skills, robust analytical, systems and financial management, and an inclusive team approach.