New York,
NY (June
6,
2002) --
Scholastic Library Publishing, which includes the prestigious Grolier reference imprints, and is a division of Scholastic Inc., today announced Larry Tinker as Vice President of National Sales. He will oversee a consolidated in-house sales force for the division's Grolier, Children's Press, Franklin Watts and Grolier Online imprints. Tinker will report to Scholastic Library Publishing's President, Neal Goff, who joined the company in March 2002.
With this new title, Larry Tinker celebrates his twenty-fourth year with the company. He first began his career at Grolier Publishing in 1978, selling the industry's leading library imprints, Children's Press and Franklin Watts. Over the years, he moved up the management ranks to become Regional Director of Sales for Grolier Educational, where he has spent the past thirteen years.
Under the new division structure put in place recently, Mr. Tinker will oversee one consolidated sales force, consisting of 90 in-house representatives for all of the division's imprints.
Scholastic Library Publishing's strategic decision to manage library sales solely through in-house representatives will benefit its customers by making all of its products available conveniently from one source. The consolidated sales force representing Children's Press, Franklin Watts and Grolier's print and online reference products will carry a unique offering for school and public libraries, meeting the complete range of its customers' needs for K-12 reference materials and children's nonfiction books.
"Larry is a seasoned veteran in the library publishing business. His experience and knowledge will be invaluable as we build the strongest sales force in the business to present all of our products—print and electronic—to librarians throughout the country," said Neal Goff, President of Scholastic Library Publishing.
Scholastic Library Publishing, which is Scholastic's library publishing arm with $80 million in sales in the U.S. school and public library market, is the publisher of such notable reference resources as
Encyclopedia Americana®,
New Book of Knowledge®,
Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre en Linea (the Spanish language encyclopedia),
The New Book of Popular Science,
Lands and Peoples, and Grolier Online. In addition, the division is the leading publisher of nonfiction children's books through its Children's Press and Franklin Watts imprints, producing such series as
True Books,
America the Beautiful, and
Cornerstones of Freedom.
Scholastic (NMS: SCHL) is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books. As a global children's publishing and media company serving the needs of parents, teachers, and children, Scholastic provides book and software distribution through school book clubs, school book fairs and to classrooms, as well as through the retail trade. The company holds a leadership position in direct-to-home children's book clubs. Since 1920, Scholastic has created quality educational materials for schools and has expanded its reach to include the distribution of books, software, toys, online learning services and television programming direct to the home. Scholastic's Library Publishing division is the leading print and online publisher of children's reference materials. Internationally, Scholastic operates wholly owned companies in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, The Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Kingdom. The U.S.
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