MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 17 - September 24, 2009 Edition LIBERTY & TYRANNY Hits One Million Copies Sold New York, NY (Authorlink News, September 16, 2009) Louise Burke, Threshold Editions Executive Vice President and Publisher at Pocket Books, announced today...
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Borders Names New VP of Merchandising
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 17 - September 24, 2009 Edition Borders Names New VP of Merchandising ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Authorlink News, Sept. 15, 2009) Michael J. Edwards, a 26-year retail veteran, has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Merchandising...
William Saroyan Prize Calls for Entries
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 17 - September 24, 2009 Edition William Saroyan Prize Calls for Entries (Authorlink News, September 17, 2009)--Stanford University Libraries, in partnership with the William Saroyan Foundation, announced has launched the fourth William...
McGraw-Hill Launches All-Digital Learning Platform
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 10 - September 17, 2009 Edition McGraw-Hill Launches All-Digital Learning Platform NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/09/08/09--Harold McGraw III, chairman, president and chief executive officer of The McGraw-Hill Companies today opened the...
Publishers Rely on Big Guns in Tough Times
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...
Weinstein Books Remains Afloat
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...
Google to Remove UK Titles From Digital Program
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...
Amazon Blasts Google Book Settlement
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...
Newspaper Cuts May Impact Younger Reporters
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...
BBC Audiobooks Rumored for Sale
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...
