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Amazon.com has begun selling 50,000 subscriptions in a new Magazine & Newspaper Subscriptions store http://www.amazon.com/magazines. Tens of thousands more will be added, said a company statement.

Chet Van Wert has been named strategic marketing director at Conde Nast Publications, New York.

Quad/Graphics has appointed three regional vice presidents of sales: Timothy Ohnmacht for Midwest sales; Robert Wachtendonk for East Coast sales; and Renee Lekan for West Coast sales.