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...
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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...
Random House Holds Out on iPad e-Books
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 1 - April 8, 2010 Edition Random House Holds Out on iPad e-Books NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/March 30, 2010--Random House, the world's largest publisher by sales volume, is still holding out on including its titles in the iPad's iBookstore....
Random House Performance Steady Despite Lagging Market
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 25 - April 1, 2010 Edition Random House Performance Steady Despite Lagging Market Berlin/Authorlink News/March 23, 2010Random House, the worlds leading trade-book publishing group, generated stable revenues in 2009 and maintained its...
Borders Books Faces Loan Deadline; Bankruptcy Possible?
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 25 - April 1, 2010 Edition Borders Books Faces Loan Deadline; Bankruptcy Possible? ANN ARBOR, MICH/AUTHORLINK NEWS/March 24, 2010--A New York hedge fund manager may control the fate of Borders Group Inc., even as the distressed Ann...
Ebook Market Exploding, Says new IDPF Survey
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 25 - April 1, 2010 Edition Ebook Market Exploding, Says New IDPF Survey NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS /March 24, 2010--The ebook market is growing faster as it grows larger, according to a report from The International Digital Publishing Forum...
