MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 21 - January 28, 2010 Edition Ingram to Distribute Books for Fitzhenry & Whiteside La VERGNE, TN/AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 20, 2010--Ingram Publisher Services Inc. late last week signed a new distribution agreement with award winning Canadian...
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Margaret Ferguson Gets Own Imprint at FSG
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 14 - January 21, 2010 Edition Margaret Ferguson Gets Obtains Her Own Imprint at FSG NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/01/14/10--Farrar, Straus and Giroux will launch an eponymous imprint called Margaret Ferguson Books in 2011, naming the unit...
Newspapers Still a Vital Source of Local News, Study Finds
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 14 - January 21, 2010 Edition Newspapers Still a Vital Source of Local News, Study Finds SAN FRANCISCO/AUTHORLINK NEWS/01/13/10--The majority of local news still originates from newspapers and their web sites, despite the growth of the...
Christian Retailers Seek Book Pricing Investigation
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 14 - January 21, 2010 Edition Christian Retailers Seek Book Pricing Investigation AUTHORLINK NEWS/01/13/10--The Christian Booksellers Association (CBA), last week asked the Department of Justice to investigate what they call "illegal,...
BN Store Sales Slump While Web Sales Increase
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 14 - January 21, 2010 Edition BN Store Sales Slump While Web Sales Increase NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/01/13/10--Barnes & Noble, Inc. reported a 5% decrease in store sales over the nine-week holiday period from November 1, 2009, to...
BN to Offer Textbook Rental Program
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 14 - January 21, 2010 Edition BN to Offer Textbook Rental Program NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/01/13/10-- Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. has created a multi-channel textbook rental...
Lubeck Heads Book Industry Study Group
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES Jan 14 - 21, 2010 Edition Lubeck Heads Book Industry Study Group NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/January 13, 2010--Scott Lubeck has begun his new job as executive director of the Book Industry Study Group and will preside over the January 21 BISG...
E-Book Piracy Likely to Worsen
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 7 - January 14, 2010 Edition E-Book Piracy Likely to Worsen NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/01/07/10--Digital piracy is spreading to the book world, according to a New Year's Day article at CNN. Dan Brown's new blockbuster, THE LOST SYMBOL...
Crain’s Tracks New York Job Losses
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 7 - January 14, 2010 Edition Crain's Tracks New York Job Losses CrainsNewYork.com, which provides monthly updates on the number of jobs lost in New York City since the peak of August 2008, shows that as of December 22, 2009, 139,827 jobs...
Scholastic Sees 30% Rise in Profits
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 7 - January 14, 2010 Edition Scholastic Sees 30 Percent Rise in Profits NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK/01/06/10--Scholastic Corporation began the 2010 year with a whopping 30% increase in profits for the second quarter of 2010, ended November 30,...
