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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 2 - July 9, 2009 Edition Random House Joins Bookglutton Social Reader NEW YORK, NY/AUTHORLINK NEWS/06/30/09--The Random House Publishing Group has joined forces with the social reading platform BookGlutton to offer a chapter giveaway promotion...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 2 - July 9, 2009 Edition Simon & Schuster to Publish Dick Cheney Memoir NEW YORK/Authorlink News/06/24/09--Former Vice President Dick Cheney will publish his much-anticipated memoir with Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc....

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 2 - July 9, 2009 Edition Barnes & Noble Bookstore App Added to Apple Store NEW YORK,NY/06/30/09--Barnes http://www.bn.com/ & Noble.com has launched a new application on the Apple App Store that will allow booklovers to search for millions of...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 2 - July 9, 2009 Edition Indy Publishing Center Struggles to Survive NEW YORK, NY/07/02/09--The non-profit New York Center for Independent Publishing (NYCIP) is struggling to survive in the downtrodden economy. In February the Center laid off...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 2 - July 9, 2009 Edition Children’s Book Burning a Shocking Law Editor’s Note: In 2008 Congress passed a Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act which has the effect of requiring the destruction of any children’s book published before 1985,...