Amos publishes the Scott postage stamp catalogues, which are the standard reference for U.S. collectors and collectors of U.S. stamps, as well as Linn’s Stamp News, by far the largest stamp collecting newspaper in the U.S.

Donna O’Keefe Houseman is “transitioning” in January from the stamp publishing operation to something for which no details were released. The rumor is it’s retirement.

Chad Snee became the editor of the Scott catalogues July 1.

Jay Bigalke (right) becomes the Editor-in-Chief for both Linn’s and Scott, effective in January. A source outside Amos tells me this was one of the incentives for Jay to leave the American Philatelic Society (where he was editor of American Philatelist, the APS journal) and return to Amos Media and Linn’s.

Jay had been telecommuting to the APS in Bellefonte, Pa., and working in-house there one week a month, while living with his wife and two sons in Ohio the rest of the time.