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Barbara Marcus was most recently President, Scholastic Children’s Book Publishing and Distribution, and Executive Vice President, Scholastic Inc., the global children’s publishing and media company and the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books.
As President, she was responsible for all children’s consumer book publishing and distribution in the United States, through school-based book clubs, school-based and direct-to-home continuity programs, school-based book fairs and the retail channel. After acquiring J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone for publication in the United States in 1998, Ms. Marcus also led the publishing effort for six out of the seven Harry Potter titles. Under her leadership, the Children’s Book Publishing Division was the largest division of Scholastic and reached $1.2 billion in revenue. Ms. Marcus retired from the company in July 2005.
Currently Ms. Marcus is pursuing a variety of activities. She is on the Board of B*tween Productions, a tween multi-media company in Boston; Knowledge Adventures, a children’s software and technology company in Southern California; and a s special advisor of Forever Entertainment, an entertainment company. Ms Marcus is on Accenture’s Media and Entertainment Council and has recently consulted for several major publishing and media companies.
Active in a variety of charitable and industry-related organizations, Ms. Marcus is currently co-chair of the UJA-Federation Publishing Committee and a member of the UJA’s Women’s Executive Committee. She has just joined the board of Graham-Windham, New York City’s oldest foster care charity. Ms. Marcus also is a member of the Women’s Forum. She previously served on the Wal-Mart Literacy Committee, the board of the NYU Publishing Division and the First Book Board of Directors.
Ms. Marcus attended Tufts University, where she was a B.A. Cum Laude in American History. | 