World Book Night U.S. has announced an expanded publishing and bookselling advisory council.
The World Book Night U.S. Advisory Council includes: Elise Cannon v-p field sales, Perseus Book Group and Publishers Group West; Amanda Close, v-p, digital channel & marketing development, Random House; Sophie Cottrell, v-p, communications director, Hachette Book Group; Sarah DiFrancesco, director of community relations, Barnes & Noble; Carol Fitzgerald, president/CEO, TheBookReportNetwork.com; Matty Goldberg, v-p, sales and marketing, Perseus Books Group; Dosier Hammond, v-p, director of library sales and marketing, W.W. Norton; Ken Holland, v-p, director of field sales, Macmillan; Tina Jordan, v-p, Association of American Publishers (AAP); Florrie Kichler, president, Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA); Ruth Liebmann, v-p, director of account marketing, Random House; Scott Moyers, v-p and publisher, Penguin Press; Bruce Nichols, senior v-p, publisher, adult trade, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Mark Nichols, development officer, American Booksellers Association (ABA); Liz Perl, senior v-p marketing, Simon & Schuster; Deb Seager, v-p, director of publicity, Grove/Atlantic; Geoff Shandler, editor in chief, v-p, Little, Brown and Company; Katya Shannon, v-p, field & jobber sales, Adult Division, Penguin; Wendy Sheanin, director of marketing, adult publishing group, Simon & Schuster; Virginia Stanley, director of library marketing, HarperCollins; George Tattersfield, v-p, merchandising, Ingram Content Group; Karen Torres, v-p, trade sales marketing director/field sales director, Hachette; Jaci Updike, senior v-p, director of adult sales, Random House; Tracy van Straaten, v-p, publicity & education/library marketing, Scholastic; Jeanette Zwart, v-p sales, HarperCollins.
