Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy: Everyone Needs to Think Digital (Video)
In the e-book era, everyone in publishing needs to be able to think digitally, according to Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy.
When the large publishing company first began producing digital book products, it created separate departments that handled all the digital operations.
“We realized about two years ago that that was probably not the best way to move forward because digital is after all just another format in some ways to the basic books we publish,” said Reidy in an interview at Book Expo America in New York in June.
As a result, the company pushed many of those digital positions back into departments and made digital a part of every employee’s job. The point, said Reidy, is to take every piece of content and maximize its potential for the company.
“How do you take the same content and making sure you’re maximizing it in every area? …. What you really want is everyone from the editor on to the copy editor and the designer – everyone – thinking about both physical and digital at the same time,” she said.
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Hear how Simon & Schuster organizes its departments around its growing digital business:
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