MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 4 - 11, 2010 Edition HarperCollins Sees Three-Fold Income Growth in Second Quarter NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/February 2, 2010 HarperCollins, owned by News Corporation, increased its operating income by three-fold to $65 million for the...
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Authors Guild Backs Macmillan in Amazon Fray
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 4 - February 11, 2010 Edition Authors Guild Backs Macmillan in Amazon Fray NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/02/03/10--The Authors Guild, advocacy group for writers, is lending its support to Macmillan Publishers in its fight with Amazon over...
Bertelsmann Offers to Buy Back Profit Participation Certificates
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 4 - February 11, 2010 Edition Bertelsmann Offers to Buy Back Profit Participation Certificates GUTERSLOH, GERMANY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/02/04/10--Bertelsmann AG, the international media company which also owns Random House in the USA, is...
Amazon.com Yields to Macmillan Price Demands
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 4 - February 11, 2010 Edition Amazon.com Yields to Macmillan Price Demands /02/02/10--Amazon.com this past weekend capitulated to Macmillan publishing company's pressures to let the publisher set higher prices for its e-books. Amazon's...
Billionaire Burkle Turns Up Heat on Barnes & Noble Takeover
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 4 - February 11, 2010 Edition Billionaire Burkle Turns Up Heat on Barnes & Noble Takeover NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/02/04/10--Barnes & Noble stock prices rose 18 percent earlier this week after the bookseller's largest outside...
Amazon and Penguin Novel Submissions Deadline Near
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 28 - February 4, 2010 Edition Amazon and Penguin Novel Submissions Deadline Near SEATTLE, NEW YORK /AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 27, 2010Amazon.com, Inc., Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace are accepting submissions for the third annual Amazon...
Barnes & Noble Confirms Layoffs
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 28 - February 4, 2010 Edition Barnes & Noble Confirms Layoffs NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 28, 2010--Barnes & Noble has confirmed that earlier this month the company laid off an undisclosed number of digital-division...
Big-name Authors Ink Attractive Deals With Amazon
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 28 - February 4, 2010 Edition Big-name Authors Ink Attractive Deals With Amazon NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 28, 2010A steady stream of big-name authors are signing exclusive deals with Amazon.coms Kindle. The latest author (and...
HarperCollins Expands Digital Strategy With Inkpop
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 28 - February 4, 2010 Edition HarperCollins Expands Digital Strategy With Inkpop NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 25, 2010--HarperCollins Publishers has broadened its digital publishing initiative with the launch this week of inkpop...
Borders Head Departs Amid Rumblings of Debt Problems
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 28 - February 4, 2010 Edition Borders Head Departs Amid Rumblings of Debt Problems ANN ARBOR, Mich./Authorlink News/January 26, 2010--Borders Group Board Chairman Mick McGuire today announced that Ron Marshall has resigned as President,...
