MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 24 - October 1, 2009 Edition Book Publishing Sales Post Gains in July New York, NY (Authorlink News, September 23, 2009) Book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for the month of July increased by 2.0 percent at...
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LIBERTY & TYRANNY Hits One Million Copies Sold
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...
B&N Offers eReader for iPhone/iPod touch
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 17 - September 24, 2009 Edition B&N Offers eReader for iPhone/iPod touch Among a number of new initiatives at Barnes & Noble is the ability for consumers to automatically download and read their latest Barnes & Noble eBook purchases and...
Bookstore Sales Drop Less Than Other Retailers
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 17 - September 24, 2009 Edition Bookstore Sales Drop Less Than Other Retailers WASHINGTON, D.C (Authorlink News, September 16, 2009)--Bookstore sales for the month of July 2009 fell 0.5% compared to the same period a year ago to...
Hachette Livre, Lightning Source Team Up on POD
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 17 - September 24, 2009 Edition Hachette Livre, Lightning Source Team Up on POD PARIS (Authorlink News, September 15, 2009)--Hachette Livre of France, the worlds second largest publisher of trade books, and Lightning Source Inc., an...
Backlash on Google Settlement Deepens
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 17 - September 24, 2009 Edition Backlash on Google Settlement Deepens Mountain View, CA (Authorlink News, September 14, 2009)Google Incs announcement late last week that it will sell access to millions of out-of-print books to third...
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...
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...
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...
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...
