Thursday, April 1, 2010

Whittaker joins HarperCollins

Catherine Whittaker has joined HarperCollins' language division as publishing director for language learning.

She will head a newly created team that will focus on developing a range of English language teaching materials for Asian markets and also have a worldwide brief for working on digital language learning products.

The new team is an expansion of the previous trade foreign language-learning team, with new ELT focus. It comprises a team of eight based in London, plus regional business development roles in Korea, China and India.

Rob Scriven, managing director of Collins Language, said: "Technology, enabling new ways of learning, together with new consumers in an expanding international market, offer powerful opportunities for language publishing which HarperCollins is exceptionally well positioned to capitalise on.

Full report here Bookseller.com

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