Sourcebooks is continuing to fine-tune its efforts to expand its reach into the indie bookseller sales channel by replacing commission sales reps with an in-house sales team, effective Dec. 31, 2024.
The Chicagoland-based company announced on Monday that it is creating an internal indies sales team to be headed by Courtney Payne as director of independent retail sales. Payne moves to Sourcebooks from Chronicle Books, where she worked for 17 years in senior sales positions, including for the past three years as director of independent retailers, wholesale, and institutional sales. Previously, from 2004 to 2006, she worked as marketing manager of Sasquatch Books. Payne is based in Seattle and will be working remotely.
Sourcebooks is currently in the process of hiring field sales and telephone sales managers for the new indie sales team.
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