MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 11 - February 18, 2010 Edition Education Secretary to Keynote AAP Annual Meeting WASHINGTON,DC/Authorlink News/02/11/10--Arne Duncan, the Obama Administration's popular Secretary of Education, will be the keynote luncheon speaker at...
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Pre-Event Survey to Explore Book Industry Digital Transformation
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 11 - February 18, 2010 Edition Pre-Event Survey to Explore Book Industry Digital Transformation NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/02/11/10--A new Book Industry Study Group (BISG) survey, opened this week, explores the ways in which new...
Justice Department Urges Restructuring of Google Settlement
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 11 - February 18, 2010 Edition Justice Department Urges Restructuring of Google Settlement WASHINGTON/AUTHORLINK NEWS/02/11/10--The U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a 26-page legal brief filed last week that many of the initially...
HarperCollins Sees Three-Fold Income Growth in Second Quarter
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...
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...
