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...

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...

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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 28 - February 4, 2010 Edition Amazon and Penguin Novel Submissions Deadline Near SEATTLE, NEW YORK /AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 27, 2010—Amazon.com, Inc., Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace are accepting submissions for the third annual Amazon...

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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 28 - February 4, 2010 Edition Big-name Authors Ink Attractive Deals With Amazon NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 28, 2010—A steady stream of big-name authors are signing exclusive deals with Amazon.com’s Kindle. The latest author (and...

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...

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,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 28 - February 4, 2010 Edition Author Solutions CEO Takes On Writers’ Groups Over Self-Publishing BLOOMINGTON, IN /AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 28, 2010--Author Solutions (ASI), with an initiative to become the world’s largest publisher of...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 28 - February 4, 2010 Edition ISteinbeck, Guthrie Back Google Settlement, Others Balk NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 27, 2010—The families of John Steinbeck and Woody Guthrie have decided to opt in to the revised Google Book Search...