Scott Chambers
Sesame Workshop

Scott Chambers is Senior Vice President, Worldwide Media Distribution for Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization behind Sesame Street and other educational programs for children.

Chambers is responsible for supervising all aspects of the publishing, home video & audio businesses worldwide, domestic & international TV Sales, and digital media business development. He joined Sesame Workshop in 2002. Since then he has tripled the number of Sesame Street books and magazines distributed worldwide, has led the home video team through three successful domestic distributor transitions and significant international growth, and is actively involved in exploring new media platform opportunities.

Chambers joined Sesame Workshop from Disney Publishing, where he spent seven years and served as North American Licensed Publishing Director. Prior to that, he spent six years as a toy buyer at FAO Schwarz.


The Next Generation of eBooks: Invent It or Witness It!

In 2010 and beyond, staying afloat in the super charged, fast paced publishing industry is going to be a different ball game altogether. Publishers can no longer sit back and assume that their e-strategies are complete merely by converting print to PDF. They need to understand customer behavior, consumer needs, habits and preferences, and leverage technology to constantly innovate to provide superior quality offerings that maximize the value of their content in the digital medium. Publishing, as we know is rapidly evolving, and ‘plain eBooks’ were just the beginning. It is time to focus on the next generation of eBooks and "what we need to do next"... Read More

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