Mark Cummings is promoted to
Vice President and Publisher of Grolier Online

To enhance Grolier Educational's rapidly growing online program, Mark Cummings has been promoted to Vice President and Publisher of Grolier Online, a new position in the leading educational and reference publisher.

Pleased to announce Cummings' promotion, President of Grolier Educational Phil Friedman says, "Mark has been the driving force behind Grolier Publishing's electronic efforts since 1995.  In his new role, he will work with our superb editorial team to plan, coordinate and execute our online strategy; work with our development partners at Grolier Interactive; and continue to be the main contact for all online information with our marketing and sales team."

Cummings says, "during the past three years we've worked hard to mount our core reference content on the Web and to establish a presence in schools and libraries."   He adds, "our long-term goals are to significantly expand the number and scope of Grolier Online databases and to make them available to students and library patrons in their homes and places of business through a network of institutional licenses."  

Cummings will also continue as editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia Americana.

Grolier Educational is the number-one publisher for schools, providing online access to its reference titles to nearly 20 million students.  Titles include The New Book of Knowledge, Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, and the Spanish language Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre en linea.  Grolier Educational, a unit of Grolier Publishing, is one of the country's leading publishers of educational and reference books.