MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 2 - July 9, 2009 Edition Childrens Book Burning a Shocking Law Editors Note: In 2008 Congress passed a Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act which has the effect of requiring the destruction of any childrens book published before 1985,...
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Indy-Publishing-Center-Struggles-to-Survive
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...
Barnes & Noble Bookstore-App Added to Apple Store
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...
Simon & Schuster- to- Publish- Dick Cheney-Memoir
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....
Random House Joins Bookglutton Social Reader
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...
Barnes & Noble-Names Shopping and-Digital-VP
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 25 - July 2, 2009 Edition Barnes & Noble Names Shopping and Digital VP NEW YORK,NY/Authorlink News/06/23/09--Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, yesterday named Jamie Iannone Executive Vice President, Shopping,...
Perseus Cuts Staff and Title Output
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 25 - July 2, 2009 Edition Perseus Cuts Staff and Title Output NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/06/23/09--Perseus Books Group this week laid off about 20 staff members (about 3% of its workforce) and plans to trim its 2010 list down by about 100...
B&N New Store Cutbacks Hurt Publishers
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 25 - July 2, 2009 Edition B&N New Store Cutbacks Hurt Publishers Barnes & Noble, the nation's largest bookstore chain, has cut its annual new superstore openings from about 35 to 15, most of which will replace existing neighborhood...
Fair Use-Tested in-Court Case
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 25 - July 2, 2009 Edition Fair Use Tested in Court Case NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/06/23/09--When the recording industry launched more than 30,000 lawsuits against people accused of illegally downloading music, it turned into a...
Delacorte-Signs- Lee Child-to Multiple-Book Deal
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 25 - July 2, 2009 Edition Delacorte Signs Lee Child to Multiple Book Deal NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink/06/23/09--Internationally bestselling author Lee Child has signed a major new multiple-book contract for his Jack Reacher series with Delacorte...
