Those with publishing backgrounds tend to think of the layout of text and images and, more recently, interactivity, as core aspects of design.
Oh well, here's what I've got: Carr says in his announcement blog that the Las Vegas-based startup will "directly address an issue [he's] written passionately about" and I've heard he's recently been talking to people with Kindle publishing backgrounds about joining his team.
From a traditional journalism and publishing background, Matt has spent the past four years leading the global social and content team.
Mr. Fallon, 50, does not have a traditional publishing background but does understand the company's fast-growing education business.
"You have to remember the bloke who makes the comments writes comic books," said Jones, referring to Boudjellal's publishing background.
David Brown, an urbane New Yorker whose publishing background was the foundation of a producing career in Hollywood, with films like "The Sting," "Jaws," and "The Verdict," and on Broadway, died Monday at home in Manhattan.
Where did you do your digging for Holocaust songs? A. Because of my folk and publishing background -- I used to be music editor of Sing Out, a monthly folk magazine, in the 1960's -- I knew that some of the songs, especially the ones in Yiddish, had appeared in other collections, so I began to search them out in libraries, though in each case I made my own translations and arrangements.
McSweeneys has eight full-time employees, only one of whom has a traditional publishing background.
Melnyk, 39, is a smooth, well-tailored entrepreneur with only a medical publishing background, who has made a number of announcements about his company's pending drugs that have yet to prove true.
For better or for worse no one with a publishing background has ever been involved in Prison Legal News or the Human Rights Defense Center.
I can say with certainty the best part of having a publishing background is meeting the people who read my books and like my art.
