MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 19 - 22, 2010 Edition Federal Ruling in Ohio Termed Free Speech Victory AUTHORLINK NEWS/4/15/2010--The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) has welcomed an April 15 federal appeals court ruling that held that an Ohio...
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2010 HOLLYWOOD BOOK FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 19 - 22, 2010 Edition 2010 HOLLYWOOD BOOK FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES HOLLYWOOD, CA/AUTHORLINK NEWS/ April 19, 2010--The 2010 Hollywood Book Festival has issued a call for entries to its annual program celebrating books that deserve greater...
Low-priced Kobo eReader Soon Available in U.S.
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 19 - 22, 2010 Edition Low-priced Kobo eReader Soon Available in U.S. LAS VEGAS/AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 19,2010--For those who Want an e-Reader for less than $400, there's a new solution. The Kobo eReader is now available for pre-order in Canada...
Random House Merges Ballantine and Bantam Dell
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 12 - 15, 2010 Edition Random House Merges Ballantine and Bantam Dell NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 13/2010--Random House today merged the Ballantine and Bantam Dell imprints into a single new Ballantine Bantam Dell division, under the...
Barnes & Noble, Best Buy Team to Sell Nook
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 12 - April 15, 2010 Edition Barnes & Noble, Best Buy Team to Sell Nook NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/April 12, 2010--Barnes & Noble, Inc. and Best Buy Co., Inc., leading consumer electronics retailer, today announced an exclusive partnership...
Recession Drives More Americans to Libraries
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...
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...
