Charles Melcher

Charles Melcher (born 1965) is the founder and president of Melcher Media, a small independent book packager and publisher in New York.

Charles Melcher was born on January 19, 1965, and raised in New York City, where he attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in 1988. Charles is the Founder and CEO of Melcher Media, an award-winning app developer, book producer, and branded content company. Melcher Media's most recent success is the book "S." by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst. The book is a New York Times bestseller and has been called "a profound and tremendous work or art" as well as "an elaborate love poem to the printed word." Another recent success was the iPad and iPhone app, "Our Choice," by Al Gore. The app was a #1 best-seller on the iTunes Store and won Apple's prestigious award for best designed app of 2011. Other recent projects include "Imagine, Design, Create," about the future of design produced for Autodesk and Timothy Ferris's "Four Hour Chef" published by Amazon for the Kindle Fire and other Android tablets.

Charles Melcher initially became interested in publishing when, as a college student at Yale, he created a photography magazine. After graduating in 1988, he launched Melcher Press, Inc., and spent two years creating custom print materials for schools such as Dartmouth, Wesleyan, and Yale, before becoming publisher at Callaway Editions, where he oversaw the creation of titles such as Madonna's "SEX," David Kirk's "Miss Spider's Tea Party," and Irving Penn's life work, "Passage." In 1994, he relaunched his company as Melcher Media Inc., and one of its first jobs was to create a publishing imprint for MTV. Over the past sixteen years, Melcher has focused on helping international brands (such as Harley-Davidson, Lexus, Gap, Nike, and General Electric), media companies (Such as Condé Nast, Time Warner, NBC, and HBO), and individual authors (such as former Vice President Al Gore, the rapper Eminem, and "cradle to cradle" gurus William McDonough and Michael Braungart) to tell their stories and connect with large audiences. Melcher Media has over 12.5 million books in print, including 20 New York Times bestsellers, and in 2004, received a patent for the innovative waterproof DuraBook format.

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