Featured Speaker: Jon Fine, Director of Author and Publishing Relations for Amazon.com

Jon P. Fine is director of Author and Publishing Relations for Amazon.com, focusing on Amazon’s programs and services for, and facilitating outreach to, those communities. He founded and directs Amazon’s author grant program which supports a diverse range of not-for-profit author and publisher groups dedicated to fostering the creation, discussion and publication of new writing and new voices (www.amazon.com/author-grants). He joined the company as an attorney focusing on media and copyright in January 2006, and led business development for Brilliance Audio following its acquisition by Amazon in 2007. Prior to joining Amazon in 2006, he directed legal affairs for the Alfred A. Knopf publishing division of Random House.  In past lives, he served as Senior Media Counsel at NBC, handling content and associated issues for NBC News, Saturday Night Live, and other divisions; as counsel at King World Productions for Inside Edition and other programming; and as a litigation associate at Debevoise & Plimpton, where he focused on copyright, libel, internet and other media-related matters. He is a graduate of Cornell University and of the University of Virginia School of Law.

Join Jon on Sunday, September 21 at 10:30 a.m. to learn about the world of self-publishing on Amazon.com, as well as the programs and services available for all authors.