Publishing Dimensions
240 East 56th St., 4E
New York, NY 10022
(212) 319-0722
FAX (212) 758-4934
info@pubdimensions.com
biographies
Kenneth M. Brooks, Jr.
President
President and co-founder of Publishing Dimensions, was formerly Vice President of Digital Content at Barnes & Noble, Inc. and President of EP Ventures, Inc. At Barnes & Noble he founded a Philippines-based text conversion company; a public domain publishing imprint; and a distribution-center based print-on-demand operation. Currently, Mr. Brooks delivers presentations on a wide variety of electronic publishing subjects such as XML integration, print-on-demand profitability and supply chain information. He has held several senior management positions in publishing, including Vice President of Operations, Production, and Strategic Planning at Bantam Doubleday Dell, and Vice President of Customer Operations at Simon & Schuster. Prior to his entry into publishing, Mr. Brooks was a Senior Manager in Andersen Consulting’s Logistics Strategy Practice.
Jonathan Hevenstone
Director of Operations
Jonathan joined Publishing Dimensions in January 2005 to oversee composition and prepress services. Drawing on his background in book production, typesetting, and project management, his role includes expanding Publishing Dimensions' prepress capacity to include Quark and InDesign workflows and managing special composition and conversion projects. Jonathan was previously Manager of Electronic Production at the Modern Language Association, where he managed typesetting and prepress operations. His publishing career began at Bantam Doubleday Dell and includes having served as an associate literary agent at Sterling Lord Literistic. Mr. Hevenstone has an MA in American literature from New York University.
Kathleen A. Doody
Director of Account Management
Director of Account Management and co-founder of Publishing Dimensions was previously Sales Director of Barnes & Noble's Digital Content Division where she managed primary client contact and the development of the customer service and sales teams. Also, she was instrumental in developing The 1873 Press, the Digital Content Division's eBook and print-on-demand publishing program. Ms. Doody is actively involved in the Open eBook Forum where she is a member of the Business Special Interest Group which focuses on the changing business needs of technology and publishing companies in the digital marketplace. Seeing the need for small publishers to have representation within the electronic space, Ms. Doody has recently began Quiet Island Books, Publishing Dimensions' eBook distribution service, for small publishers and previously published authors. Prior to joining Barnes & Noble, she held customer service and sales roles with Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
Chief Technology Officer of Publishing Dimensions, O'Donnell brings a uniquely complementary background to the company combining a strong research-oriented linguistics focus with a deep set of technical skills. O'Donnell received a Ph.D. in Ancient Greek Linguistics from the University of Surrey Roehampton, London, where he was a Research Officer for 2 years, he also has a MDiv. in Theology and a BSc. in Computer Science. His particular area of expertise is XML-based technologies including XSLT, XSL-FO, SVG, XML Schema and XML processing using SAX, DOM and Cocoon. He has conducted and presented research into markup theory and practice at recent XML conferences. In addition, he has designed and implemented information (database) and web-based systems for educational institutions in the U.K. and Canada.
Quiet Island Books assists small publishers and previously published authors by distributing their content through secure eBook and print-on-demand wholesale and retail channels.
A new approach to editing and page-makeup that uses XML from the very beginning and saves the publisher up to 25% in production costs