Meet the Department

Meet Penguin Young Reader’s School & Library Marketing Department | May 10, 2018

What does the School and Library marketing do? What is your role on the team? School & Library Marketing focuses on teachers and librarians and what they need in order to do their jobs. We create promotional materials, like educator …

Sight to Sound: Meet the Audio Department! | June 8, 2017

In brief, what does your team do? The Scholastic Audio team is responsible for identifying titles on Scholastic’s print list for audiobook development. This encompasses a wide variety of duties since we’re building everything from the ground up in-house. We …

Making a Mega-Multitasker: Meet the Sales Department! | January 25, 2017

1) In brief, what does the Sales team do? The main focus of a Sales Person’s job is to represent the company for your account and represent the account for your company. We balance the needs and focuses of both …

From PDF to Print: Meet the Production Department! | November 28, 2016

In brief, what does the Production team do? We literally get the books printed, bound, and delivered into the warehouse to then go out into the marketplace. We work with design, editorial and managing editorial to get files supplied for …

“Sometimes, they think we’re IT”: Meet the Metadata Department! | October 7, 2016

In brief, what does the Metadata team do? We make sure all of the information related to a book – title, author, summary, price, subject categories, trim size, cover, and a whole lot more – gets to our online retailers, …

Keeping Up with the Teachers and Librarians…and the conferences! : Meet the Education & Library Department | August 3, 2016

I know you do a million different things but, in short, what does the Education & Library department do? The Education & Library marketing department is responsible for promoting our books to teachers and school and public librarians. We do …

“Managing Editorial and Me…Or Is It I?”: Meet the Managing Editorial Department | March 23, 2016

Meet the Department takes a closer look at the more enigmatic departments within a publishing house. In this edition, get the insiders’ guide to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers’ Managing Editorial department! What does managing editorial do? Managing editorial …

“We Got the Rights Stuff!”: Meet the Subsidiary Rights Department | January 27, 2016

In this new feature, we’ll be taking a look at the perhaps overlooked or enigmatic departments within a publishing house. First up is an insiders’ guide to Penguin Young Readers’ Subsidiary Rights department!