Maja Thomas
Hachette Book Group

Maja Thomas is Senior Vice President, Hachette Digital for Hachette Book Group in the US, and Vice President, Digital Publishing for Hachette Group Livre, headquartered in Paris. She heads Hachette Digital and works across divisions on digital strategy, investment, and the pursuit of new digital publishing businesses. She has been the co-chair of the Digital Working Group at the Association of American Publishers, and chair of Hachette Livre’s International Board for Digital Issues.

Hachette Digital is the proud publisher of many bestselling ebooks and audiobooks, including the Twilight Saga ebooks, James Patterson’s Daniel X graphic novel iPhone application, original audio recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s sermons and speeches, and memoirs read by authors such as Jane Goodal, Ted Turner, and Jack Welsh.

Since joining the company in 1991, Maja has served as an audio director and producer, a Director of Production, and as an Editor at Large for the Time Warner Book Group, where she edited the New York Times bestseller, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris.

Website: hbgusa.com
Twitter: @majaudio


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