MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 12 - April 15, 2010 Edition Recession Drives More Americans to Libraries CHICAGO/Authorlink News/4-12-10 When jobs go away, Americans turn to their libraries to find information about future employment or educational opportunities. This...
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Penguin to Launch Global Business Book Imprint
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 12 - April 15, 2010 Edition Penguin to Launch Global Business Book Imprint London and New York/Authorlink News/April 12, 2010--Penguin is to launch a global business book imprint by rolling out its Portfolio imprint this autumn in the UK,...
Book Sales Decline in 2009
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 1 - April 8, 2010 Edition Book Sales Decline in 2009 New York, NY/Authorlink News/April 7, 2010 The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has released its annual estimate of total book sales in the United States. The report, which uses...
HarperStudio Imprint to Shut Down
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 1 - April 8, 2010 Edition HarperStudio Imprint to Shut Down NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 5,2010--HarperStudio, the partnership publishing imprint of HarperCollins is shutting down and its founding publisher, Bob Miller is leaving to...
Former PW Publisher Buys Magazine
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 1 - April 8, 2010 Edition Former PW Publisher Buys Magazine PWxyz, LLC, headed by former PW Publisher George Slowik, has purchased Publishers Weekly, including the website publishersweekly.com and Publishers Weekly Show Daily. The new company...
Ingram to Give Publishers Access to Apple iBookstore
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 1 - April 8, 2010 Edition Ingram to Give Publishers Access to Apple iBookstore La VERGNE, TN/AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 5, 2010--Ingram Content Group Inc. today announced that it will provide publisher content to Apple's new iBookstore. Through...
Publishers Gain Pricing Control Over E-Books
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 1 - 8, 2010 Edition Publishers Gain Pricing Control Over E-Books Authorlink News/April 1--Amazon.com Inc. and Barnes & Noble Inc. will now give publishers the right to set pricing for electronic editions of books, a move designed to head off...
Hachette, Others to Offer Top Titles on iPad
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 1 - April 8, 2010 Edition Hachette, Others to Offer Top Titles on iPad NEW YORK, N.Y./AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 1, 2010--Grand Central Publishing, a Division of Hachette Book Group, announced last week that they will release an enriched eBook...
Affiliates Say Colorado Law Cripples Online Booksellers
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 1 - April 8, 2010 Edition Affiliates Say Colorado Law Cripples Online Booksellers AUTHORLINK NEWS/4/1/2010-A post on the website, ChristianWritingToday.com reports that the passage of a State of Colorado sales tax law is financially crippling...
BISG Explains New ISTC Code for Publishers
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 1 - April 8, 2010 Edition BISG Explains New ISTC Code for Publishers NEW YORK, NY/March 30, 2010--The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and Book Industry Communication (BIC) this week co-published for public comment a discussion paper on the...
