MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 16 - July 23, 2009 Edition Report Gauges Copyright Industries Economic Impact Publishers and other interested parties on July 20 will get a look at how the copyright industries have fared in the U.S. economy from 2003-2007. The new Copyright...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 16 - July 23, 2009 Edition Bowker Launches New Book Search Platform NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/07/14/09-- Bowker (www.bowker.com), a provider of bibliographic information management solutions, this week announced the beta release of Books In...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 16 - July 23, 2009 Edition Pocket Joins Permuted Press to Publish Zombie Fiction NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/07/16/09--Anthony Ziccardi, Vice President and Deputy Publisher of Pocket Books, announced last week a new co-publishing venture with...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 16 - July 23, 2009 Edition Book Sales Decline 3.9 Percent, AAP Reports NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/07/14/09-- Book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for the month of May decreased by 3.2 percent at $637.9 million...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 9 - 16, 2009 Edition Range Review Calls for Fiction Submissions The Front Range Review is accepting submissions of high quality short fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction as well as artwork for its spring 2010 issue.  The reading period is...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 9 - 16, 2009 Edition Hachette Supports Amazon Text-to-Speech NEW YORK, NY (AUTHORLINK NEWS, July 9, 2009)--The Hachette Book Group last week issued a statement in support of Amazon’s text-to-speech feature for Kindle 2. The new feature had...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 9 - 16, 2009 Edition Penguin UK Reorganizes, Downsizes LONDON (AUTHORLINK NEWS, July 9, 2009)—Penguin UK early this week announced a series of cost-cutting measures that includes the layoff of about 100 employees there. The move will not...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 9 - 16, 2009 Edition J.D. Salinger Wins Copyright Battle NEW YORK, NY (AUTHORLINK NEWS, July 9, 2009)—Literary icon J.D. Salinger won his law suit July 1 against the unauthorized publication of a sequel to his famous novel, THE CATCHER IN THE...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 9 - 16, 2009 Edition 2009 LONDON BOOK FESTIVAL CALL FOR ENTRIES LONDON (AUTHORLINK NEWS, July 7, 2009)--The 2009 London Book Festival has issued its call for entries to its annual program celebrating books that deserve greater recognition from...