Rachael McDiarmid

Rachael McDiarmid has been in the book industry for over 30 years in a variety of product, sales, marketing and senior management roles. She has spent time on both sides of the fence—working primarily in academic and professional publishing, as well as a long stint in library supply where she managed publisher relations for the print, digital and multimedia supply chain as well as a trade distribution business. Rachael was the face of the James Bennett/Nielsen Bookdata joint venture for many years in the mid-2000s and has worked with Blackwell Book Services and Baker & Taylor/YBP on their retail and digital projects in the ANZ region. She has worked with thousands of publishers and distributors globally and launched RM Marketing Services in 2014 which provides outsourcing solutions and consulting services for authors, publishers and distributors around the globe. Through her business, she is also the ANZ contact for publishers for ProQuest’s Ebook Central and is also teaching the Book Marketing and Sales unit at the University of Sydney.