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Simon & Schuster president to keynote ECPA's Pub U Print Email
Wednesday, 03 September 2008 08:00 PM America/New_York

The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) has announced that Simon & Schuster President and CEO Carolyn Reidy will be the keynote speaker for its fifth annual Publishing University (Pub U) program, Nov. 2-4.

A publishing insider with more than 30 years experience, Reidy has been named one of the "50 Women to Watch" by The Wall Street Journal and one of the "100 Most Powerful People in Entertainment" by Entertainment Weekly. Reidy will share her perspective and insights from beyond the Christian publishing industry.

Pub U—which will be held at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Chicago—will feature 28 workshops, including sessions on "green" publishing, media marketing, technology that helps publishers sell more content, partnering with retailers for digital content distribution, book cover design, digital printing and selling the sales conference, ECPA said.