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Mark A. GompertzAn Illustrated Work Biography
A Distinguished Publishing Career: bringing great content to consumers
Creative Director Content ExtensionsHearst Magazines• Developing and executing compelling and substantive content for the company’s print and digital
brands, creating a string of bestsellers .
Using archival and new material and leveraging marketing assets to create new revenue streams
Hyperion Books Executive Producer Enhanced eBook
Apple hailed it as the #1 enhanced eBook of 2011
Executive Vice President Digital Publishing at Simon & Schuster (CBS Corporation)
• Newly created position, reporting to the CEO• Responsible for the strategies, processes and implementation of adult
and children eBooks.• Brought an editorial perspective to its imprints, authors, agents, sales
and marketing departments
Original and bestselling books as publisher of Touchstone/Fireside (Simon & Schuster) including:
The novels of Philippa Gregory with over 9 million copies sold in the US alone
This New York Times bestseller spawned Three best-selling sequels.
Even as a publisher, always an editor
An Oprah Book Club pick, this book hit bestseller lists all over the Country and sold over 1 million copies.
Eclectic Taste…Consistent Results
As trade paperback publisher at Touchstone/Fireside, many award-winning and bestselling titles.
Publisher of Avon Trade Paperbacks
I was one of “Fortune’s Favorites” having the opportunity to edit the great Colleen McCullough
Multiple bestsellers including:
As a senior editor at Crown, I acquired and edited many books including:35 Weeks on the NY
Times bestseller
list
Began my career at The Overlook Press where many of the books I worked on are still in print
SKILL SETS• Innovator with extensive knowledge of end-to-end book publishing• Digital expertise that has kept me current• Three years of magazine and consumer behavior experience• Collaborative relationship builder (internal and external)• Content creation and editing skills• Copy writing• Communications• Management• Constant revenue producer
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