About Thomas Nelson: Thomas Nelson is a world leading publisher and provider of Christian content and has been providing readers with quality inspirational product for more than 200 years. As part of HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Inc., the publishing group provides multiple formats of award-winning Bibles, books, gift books, cookbooks, curriculum, and digital content, with distribution of its products in more than 100 countries. Thomas Nelson is headquartered in Nashville, TN. For additional information visit www.thomasnelson.com.
Media Contact: Becky Melvin
615.902.1211 becky.melvin@harpercollins.com
Baker & Taylor Publisher Services announces new Vice President of Client Services
Industry Veteran Jeff Tegge Joins Team
Baker & Taylor Publisher Services, the premier provider of full-service sales and distribution for client publishers, has named Jeff Tegge its new vice president of client services.
Tegge will focus on leveraging the full spectrum of Baker & Taylor and Follett solutions to achieve greater sales for BTPS publisher clients. He will also represent BTPS titles to the public library, K-12, and higher education markets.
Tegge comes to BTPS with more than 25 years of industry experience, most recently as president of Legato Publishers Group and prior to that as vice president of sales at Independent Publishers Group.
He joins BTPS reporting to Mark Suchomel, senior vice president of sales and client services.
“It is an exciting time at Baker & Taylor and Follett and I am thrilled to join the BTPS team,” said Tegge. “The solutions we can provide client publishers are deep and the service is at a level unique to our industry.”
“Jeff will be a key asset to our BTPS team,” said Mark Suchomel. “His knowledge of client needs is unsurpassed and our partners will benefit from his energy and focus.”
Baker & Taylor announced the launch of BTPS earlier this month, the new business unit offering children’s, trade, K‐12, higher education and academic publishers, and Christian publishers economical solutions for warehousing and order fulfillment, sales and marketing support, inventory management and virtual inventory programs, book manufacturing including offset and digital short run, POD, and editorial services.
BTPS is using the existing distribution assets of Bookmasters and has retired that brand as it relates to distribution and client services. The Bookmasters name will continue to represent the printing and manufacturing business, under Ken Fultz’s leadership as the senior vice president of operations.
Publishers interested in Baker & Taylor Publisher Services should contact Mark at Mark.Suchomel@baker‐taylor.com
About Baker & Taylor
Baker & Taylor is the premier worldwide distributor of books, digital content and entertainment products from approximately 25,000 suppliers to over 20,000 customers in 120 countries. The company offers cutting‐edge digital media services and innovative technology platforms to thousands of publishers, libraries, schools and retailers worldwide. Baker & Taylor also offers industry leading customized library services and retail merchandising solutions. For more information about Baker & Taylor visit www.baker‐taylor.com. Baker & Taylor is part of Follett Corporation, the world’s largest single source of books, entertainment products, digital content and multi‐media for libraries, schools and retailers. Follett is headquartered in Westchester, Illinois. For more information about Follett, visit www.follett.com.
About Follett Corporation
Follett is a $3.4 billion privately held company headquartered in Westchester, Illinois. As a leading provider of education technology, services and physical and digital content, Follett works with 70,000 schools and operates more than 1,250 local campus stores and 1,600 virtual stores. With the 2016 acquisition of Baker & Taylor, LLC, Follett’s reach also extends into the public library and global retail markets. For more information, visit www.follett.com. For more information on our OER partnership with Lumen Learning, visit www.follett.com/lumen.
FaithWords and JellyTelly announce a new Children’s book imprint
Nashville, TN, November 1, 2017 – FaithWords, a division of Hachette Book Group, and JellyTelly, a leading Children’s media company, have announced an innovative partnership to bring a new program of children’s books and Bibles for Christian Families to the marketplace.
This is a unique collaboration between FaithWords, a leading publisher in the Christian Inspiration market and JellyTelly, a children’s media company resourcing and inspiring Christian parents every day through video and print media experiences. This new imprint, JellyTelly Press, will bring to the market board books and coloring books for preschoolers, picture books, activity books and chapter books for elementary schoolers as well as Bibles and books for family devotionals.
“JellyTelly is excited to partner with a world-class team like FaithWords. While our JellyTelly users enjoy our streaming video service, they also want to experience the time-honored tradition of reading books together with their children. We regularly hear from our parents that books remain an important part of their family life. Our partnership with FaithWords takes advantage of our online JellyTelly platform and extends our efforts to help families have fun and experience their faith together offline. Books are a great way to do that,” said Dan Raines, President of JellyTelly.
“This new venture is being launched at an opportune moment,” said Rolf Zettersten, FaithWords publisher. “The Millennial generation is the largest in our history. These young people are now seeking inspirational resources to raise their families. We believe JellyTelly Press is coming at an ideal time for booksellers to meet their needs.”
With books written by Veggie Tales and What’s In the Bible? creator Phil Vischer and others, JellyTelly Press titles will debut in January 2019. JellyTelly Press titles will be taken market wide by the Hachette Book Group sales team and direct-to-consumer by JellyTelly.
About Faith Words
Faith Words, a division of Hachette Book Group, is a leading publisher of books and resources for the Christian inspirational market. Bestselling authors include Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, Joseph Prince, John C. Maxwell, and T.D. Jakes.
About JellyTelly
JellyTelly.com is a rapidly growing media company focused on helping Christian parents navigate the often-complicated world of parenting, spiritual formation, and raising great kids. It’s transmedia properties include a subscription streaming video on demand platform for kids (JellyTelly TV), a resource-rich parents blog (JellyTelly Parents), and a curated online store with the best books, toys and videos for Christian families (JellyTelly Store). JellyTelly helps families experience the goodness of God every day by inspiring, entertaining and resourcing them.
Media contact: Laini Brown
Laini.Brown@hbgusa.com 615.371.7763