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...
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Editorial-Consider Effects of-Google Settlement-as Deadline Nears
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...
Spiegel and Grau Acquire Next Yan Martel Novel
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...
Unpublished Vonnegut Stories to Become E-Book
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 30 - August 6, 2009 Edition Unpublished Vonnegut Stories to Become E-Book NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/07/28/09--Delacorte Press, a hardcover imprint of the Random House Publishing Group division of Random House, Inc. and the longtime book...
BISG Searches for New Executive Director
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 30 - August 6, 2009 Edition BISG Searches for New Executive Director NEW YORK, NY/07/30/09--Dominique Raccah (Sourcebooks) and Andrew Weber (Random House), Co-Chairs of the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG), announced this week that it...
Penguin Reports-Growth in First Half of 2009
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 30 - August 6, 2009 Edition Penguin Reports Growth in First Half of 2009 NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/07/28/09--Penguin Group, this week reported its results for the first half of 2009. On a headline basis, sales were up 11% and operating...
Government Move to Bend First Amendment Opposed by AAP
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 30 - Aug 6, 2009 Edition Government Move to Bend First Amendment Opposed by AAP Washington, DC, July 27, 2009: The Association of American Publishers (AAP), joined by librarians, authors, booksellers and a range of content providers and...
Nichols Named Houghton Mifflin Harcourt-Publisher
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 23 - 30, 2009 Edition Nichols Named Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publisher BOSTON & NEW YORK (BUSINESS WIRE, July 22, 2009) --Gary Gentel, president of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Division, announced today that Bruce Nichols has...
Borders-to Report Q2 2009 Results in August
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 23 - July 30, 2009 Edition Borders to Report Q2 2009 Results in August ANN ARBOR, MI/AUTHORLINK NEWS/07/23/09--Borders Group, Inc.will discuss the company's second quarter 2009 financial results on a conference call for analysts and investors...
Late Frank McCourt Book Sales Soar
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 23 - July 30, 2009 Edition Late Frank McCourt Book Sales Soar NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/07/24/09--The death of beloved author Frank McCourt on Sunday July 19 has spurred a huge surge in sales of his books on Amazon.com. He is best known for...
