MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 10 - September 17, 2009 Edition Publishers Rely on Big Guns in Tough Times NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/09/10/09--Struggling against a tough economy, publishers are turning to more safe bets in their fall lineup of books. The list this...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 10 - September 17, 2009 Edition Weinstein Books Remains Afloat NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/09/10/09--Weinstein Books, rumored to possibly close under financial strains, does not have plans to shut down, according to publisher Judy...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 10 - September 17, 2009 Edition Google to Remove UK Titles From Digital Program Authorlink News/09/10/09--According to several news sources, including The Telegraph...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 10 - September 17, 2009 Edition Amazon Blasts Google Book Settlement SEATTLE,WA/Authorlink News/09/10/09--Amazon.com last week blasted Google's copyright settlement with the association of American Publishers and the Authors Guild as...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 3 - September 10, 2009 Edition Newspaper Cuts May Impact Younger Reporters SAN FRANCISCO/Authorlink News/09/02/09--Financially stretched newspapers are losing many of their youngest reporters, editors and photographers at a time when...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 3 - September 10, 2009 Edition BBC Audiobooks Rumored for Sale NEW YORK, NY/09/02/09--The commercial arm of the BBC is seeking to sell a majority share of UK-based BBC Audiobooks, according to Publishers Weekly. The BBC Audiobooks America...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 3 - September 10, 2009 Edition Sony Unveils Third eBook Reader, and Library Finder NEW YORK/09/01/09--Sony last week announced the third member of its new Reader family – the Reader Daily Edition™, a highly-anticipated...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 3 - September 10, 2009 Edition Random House Revenues Dip in First Half Gütersloh/Authorlink News/08/31/09— Random House, the world’s largest trade book publishing group owned by German-based Bertelsmann, registered a...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 3 - September 10, 2009 Edition Lagardere Publishing Profits Soar PARIS/AUTHORLINK NEWS/09/01/09--Lagardere, parent company to Hachette Book Group in the USA, reported on August 27 a 61.1% increase in profits to 112 million euros. The...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 3 - September 10, 2009 Edition More Libraries Seek Changes in Google Settlement NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/09/01/09--The Urban Libraries Council (ULC), a group of medium and large public libraries, has joined other entities who are...