The LOGOS International Editorial Board
The Founder and Editor Emeritus
LOGOS was established by Gordon Graham in 1990, following his retirement from Butterworths, the legal and scientific publisher of which he had been CEO since 1974. In his long and distinguished career, he has been a newspaper correspondent in India, a publisher's rep in Asia, International Sales Manager of McGraw-Hill in New York and Managing Director of McGraw-Hill in Europe. He is the author of three books about the world of publishing, and a personal memoir centred on his experiences in the Second World War.
The Editor
The Editor since the beginning of 2006 has been Charles M Levine of New York. He has held senior management positions in Random House, Simon & Schuster, John Wiley & Sons and Macmillan (US), and worked for many years in the forefront of electronic publishing, including management of databases, mark-up systems, multimedia publishing and website design. He started his publishing career in Singapore in 1972. He conducts editing workshops for undergraduates at Hofstra University.
Richard Abel
Dick Abel graduated in Medieval History more than forty years ago from Reed College, Portland, Oregon, where he still lives. After graduate work in the same field at the University of California, he became a bookseller, establishing in 1960 his eponymous company which became a major supplier of books to academic and research libraries in the United States and around the world. This company is now Blackwell North America. In the mid-1970s, Abel became an independent publisher, his principal interest being Timber Press, founded in 1977, which publishes books on horticulture and plant sciences. In 1985, he started Amadeus Press to publish books on music. He is co-founder of LOGOS and was US Editor until 2005.
Professor Amadio A Arboleda
An American citizen who was educated in the Philippines, the US and Germany, Amadio Arboleda has worked and studied in Japan since 1969. He began his publishing career at Academic Press in New York. After a spell with the American Heritage Dictionary, he joined the University of Tokyo Press as Chief Editor of its International Division. In 1978, Arboleda joined the United Nations University, where he became Director of the press and later Executive Officer. Since retiring, he has been a professor at Josai International University, specializing in communication, culture and publishing.
Colin Day
Publisher at Hong Kong University Press since 2000, Colin Day started his publishing career in England where, after several years as an academic, he joined Cambridge University Press as Economics Editor. After service as Editorial Director in CUP's New York office, he was appointed Director of the University of Michigan Press in 1988. During his term of office there, he served as President of the Association of American University Presses.
Eric de Bellaigue
Born in France and brought up in England and Canada, where he graduated from McGill University, Eric de Bellaigue started his working life as a reporter on the Montreal Star. His career in banking and stockbroking included spells with the Bank of Montreal, merchant bankers Schroder Wagg and stockbrokers Panmure Gordon. He has been studying the past and forecasting the future of British book publishing for some forty years. He is the author of British Book Publishing As A Business Since the 1960s, published by the British Library in 2004. He has been a steadfast member of the editorial board of LOGOS since the journal was founded in 1990.
Joseph J Esposito
An independent consultant focusing on digital media, his practice includes interim management, mergers and acquisitions, the development of corporate and institutional strategy, and the use of electronics to develop new media products. He has served as the CEO of three companies: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tribal Voice and SRI Consulting, all of which he ultimately led to a liquidity event. His clients range from such technology firms as Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, publishing companies suchs as Scholastic and the American National Standards Institute, and organizations in the not-for-profit sector - for example JSTOR.
Michael Gorman
Dean of Library Services at the Henry Madden Library, California State University, Fresno, since 1988, Michael Gorman worked for the preceding eleven years at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Library. From 1966 to 1977, he was, successively, Head of Cataloguing at the British National Bibliography, a member of the British Library Planning Secretariat and Head of the Office of Bibliographic Standards in the British Library. He is a past President of the Library and Information Techology Association.
Eve Gray
After taking degrees in French and English at Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, Eve Gray found her first job in a print shop. For the next eighteen years, she lived and worked in England, Luxembourg and Belgium, working as a teacher and lecturer and then translating and editing books on architectural history. Returning to South Africa in 1982, Gray took her Master's Degree in English Literature at Witwatersrand University, and in 1989, was made Director of Witwatersrand University Press. She moved to Cape Town in 1995 to become Director of the Academic Publishing Division of Juta, the educational and legal publisher. She spent five years as a consultant to the South African publishing industry and is currently researching open access scholarly publishing, affiliated to the Centre of Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town as an International Policy Fellow of the Open Society Institute, Budapest.
Richard Guthrie
With a background in film and television writing, production and direction, in Hong Kong, Sydney and New York, followed by several years in Rome creating and managing audiovisual training for professionals under the European Union's Media II programme, Richard Guthrie returned to study, completing an MA in publishing studies at City University, London. He has recently been awarded a PhD by Nottingham Trent University, investigating cultural and technological developments in electronic publishing. Guthrie's weblog on e-publishing can be found at http://luminog.wordpress.com/.
Stephen Horvath
After twenty years in the publishing business, during which he worked for a US educational publisher, for an international STM publisher, and as a publisher of academic and professional journals, Steve Horvath entered bookselling with Barnes & Noble, subsequently serving as Assistant Manager of the Borders Superstores in San Francisco and Palo Alto, California. Horvath holds AB and MBA degrees from Dartmouth College. He currently resides in the San Diego area, where he is a part-time teacher and small business consultant.
Laurens Van Krevelen
Born in 1941, he studied French language and literature at Leiden University, and law and economics at the University of Amsterdam. Currently he chairs the Tiele Foundation, a federation for book studies bringing together twenty-eight academic-, heritage- and market-oriented organizations in the Dutch book world. Until 2001, he was executive director of the Meulenhoff & Co Publishing group, after having been publisher of literary fiction for more than twenty-five years. He chaired the copyright committee of the Dutch Publishers Association, and he served on several boards, including those of the annual festival, Poetry International, in Rotterdam; the Museum for Dutch Literature; and the Museum Meermanno for book history in The Hague. From 1993 till 2001 he was president of the Royal Dutch Book Trade Association (KVB).
Eric Newman
After publishing law and STM in Australia, Asia, and the US, Eric Newman was Butterworths STM Chief Executive in the UK, then president of American medical publisher Appleton & Lange. For the last ten years, he has been an independent publishing consultant specializing in market entry and strategic planning. Recent clients include Simba Information, BMJ Group (British Medical Journal), Royal Pharmaceutical Society, NEJM, and publishers and societies in the US, UK, Eastern Europe and China. He is a past-president of the American Medical Publishers' Association, a past-member of the executive councils of the International STM Group and the AAP's Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division and was a founding director of Dangdang.com, China's largest online bookseller. He is currently a non-executive director of BMJ Group and Treasurer of the LOGOS Foundation.
Klaus Saur
Born in 1941 in Munich, Germany, Klaus G Saur started his publishing career in 1966 as managing partner of Dokumentation Verlag, a publishing venture devoted to bibliographical and scholarly works for libraries. As K G Saur Verlag, the company became in twenty years a leading publisher to the library world, with subsidiaries in Paris, London and New York. Dr Saur remained in command when his company was purchased by Reed International in 1987 and resold to Thomson's Gale Group in 2000. In January 2005, Dr Saur joined Walter de Gruyter of Berlin where he is now chief executive. De Gruyter recently acquired K G Saur Verlag. Holder of honorary doctorates in universities in Germany, Russia, Italy and the United States, Dr Saur is also a member of the Goethe Institute and an honorary professor at Glasgow and Humboldt Universities.
Michael Webster
Michael has served the Australian book industry for thirty years. For sixteen of these, he was Managing Director of D W Thorpe bibliographic and trade magazine publishers. He has worked in both trade and educational publishing for national and multinational companies. Currently he is Director of the Graduate Program of Publishing Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne, Principal of Book Track Australia, Chairman of Copyright Agency Limited and a director of the Australia Publishers Association
Douglas Williamson
After graduating in English Literature and Hispanic Studies from Liverpool University, Douglas Williamson returned to Scotland where he studied typography, printing and book design at Grays School of Art, Aberdeen. He started his professional career as law books designer at Butterworths in London. This was followed by a brief interlude in general design, but he soon returned to educational and reference publishing, and has worked for Longman, Collins and Heinemann. He is currently design manager of the Iberia publishing department at Macmillan Education in Oxford.