Former Simon & Schuster President Joins FastPencil Board of Directors

CAMPBELL, Calif., July 28 /PRNewswire/ -- FastPencil (http://www.fastpencil.com) today announced the addition of renowned publisher Bruce Butterfield to the company's Board of Directors. As former president of Prentice Hall Regents/Simon & Schuster and current CEO and president of The Wittfield Group, Butterfield adds a wealth of industry knowledge and experience to the FastPencil team as an active participant and integral part in the development of a new tier of services for established leaders and top-tier authors.

"FastPencil is a welcome breath of fresh air in an industry that is undergoing an unprecedented change and I'm excited to be a part of helping shape FastPencil's future growth," said Bruce Butterfield. "Together we will continue to make FastPencil the 'author's best friend' while expanding the services and benefits to more established writers and best-selling authors."

"Having been in the business for over 30 years, Bruce brings enormous breadth and depth to our team of innovators at FastPencil," said Steve Wilson, FastPencil Co-Founder and CEO. "With his help we hope to continue to empower top-notch authors who want to take advantage of revolutionary services that provide unparalleled control over timing to market, economics and simplicity in publishing from beginning to end."

Butterfield, CEO and president of The Wittfield Group, LLC, an enterprise involved in education and publishing from print through multi-media, Internet, broadcast and film, has extensive experience in innovation and project management. Butterfield is considered an international leader in the communications, publishing and education fields having served as a global executive, president and publisher of such stand-out companies as Scholastic, Inc., Prentice Hall Regents/Simon & Schuster, and Longman/Addison-Wesley/Pearson PLC. He has participated in landmark publishing projects such as Sesame Street Books, ABC Wide World of Sports, Wildfire/Windswept, Wishing Star young adult lines and Family Album USA TV broadcasts into Asia.

FastPencil provides authors with an end-to-end solution that puts more money in writers' pockets by stripping out the cost and complexity of traditional publishing. At FastPencil authors can sell more books and maintain complete control of content creation, price, distribution decisions and sales activity. FastPencil's relationships with thousands of book and eBook retailers ensures that each of their authors' books are available to the broadest possible audience and the write-once, publish anywhere approach guarantees their books can be read anywhere today and in the future.

FastPencil Features:

• Free book writing tools
• Professional book design templates
• Import manuscripts, turn blogs to books or write collaborative stories
• Connect and share through Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and MSN
• Author concierge services including consulting, design services and formatting
• Collaborate with your book creation team, personal network of friends or industry professionals
• Integrated self-publishing wizard for step-by-step assistance
• Print on Demand or to eBook formats
• Wide distribution including iBookstore, Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About FastPencil

FastPencil is leveraging the disruptive trends of self-publishing, social media, print-on-demand and eBook distribution to deliver a new unified online service that streamlines the book publishing process offering more control and higher margins for authors. The FastPencil writing and publishing service enables authors to create books online, collaborate, publish and distribute from one engaging, simple, cost-effective solution. For more information please visit FastPencil.com.

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