MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 13 - August 20, 2009 Edition B&N Buys College Booksellers, Reuniting B&N Brand NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/08/11/09--Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world's largest bookseller, yesterday announced it has acquired privately held Barnes &...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 13 - August 20, 2009 Edition AAP Offers Audio/Visual Info on Google Settlement The Association of American Publishers this week, compiled an audio visual resource to help authors and publishers clarify and expand their understanding of the...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 6 - August 13, 2009 Edition Random House Republishes Spy vs Spy Series Once in a great while a lost piece of our cultural history is returned to us. With the publication of Spy vs. Spy! Danger! Intrigue! Stupidity!, Spy vs Spy! Masters of...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 6 - August 13, 2009 Edition McGraw-Hill Pays Stock Dividend NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/08/05/09--Graw-Hill Companies last week approved a regular quarterly cash dividend on the Corporation's common stock. The dividend of $0.225 is payable...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 6 - August 13, 2009 Edition BN e-Book Store Prompts Stock Price Increase NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/08/06/09--Barnes & Noble's stock prices rose 54 percent as of August 3 on the heels of the launch of its e-reader bookstore in partnership...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 6 - August 13, 2009 Edition Commentary: The End of Vintage Kids' Books? /08/03/09--Blogger Jonathan Adler, posted this lament on The http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_08_02-2009_08_08.shtml#1249340466 Volokh Conspiracy blog site this...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 6 - August 13, 2009 Edition Publishers Weekly for Sale NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/08/06/09--Reed Business Information announced last Thursday that it is putting Publishers Weekly and its affiliated publications, Library Journal and School...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 6 - August 13, 2009 Edition Sony, Google Expand e-Book Deal The battle for dominance in the e-book market heated up last week with Google and Sony announcing they would provide access to more than 1 million free public domain books in Sony's...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 30 - Aug 6, 2009 Edition EDITORIAL--Consider Effects of Google Settlement as Deadline Nears DALLAS (AUTHORLINK NEWS, August 1, 2009)--Authors and publishers have just a little over a month to decide whether to opt out of the book search...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 30 - August 6, 2009 Edition Spiegel and Grau Acquire Next Yan Martel Novel Publisher Cindy Spiegel of Spiegel & Grau has acquired Yann Martel's next novel after Life of Pi, which won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 and went on to be published in...