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...
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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...
Sony Unveils Third eBook Reader, and Library Finder
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...
Random House Revenues Dip in First Half
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...
Lagardere Publishing Profits Soar
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...
