MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 28 - June 4, 2009 Edition HarperCollins UK Restructures After Managing Director Departs LONDON/Authorlink News/05/28/09--Harpercollins UK has announced it is restructuring after the departure of managing director Amanda Ridout. CEO and...
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Sagging Bookstore Sales-Affect B&N Investors Mood
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 28 - June 4, 2009 Edition Sagging Bookstore Sales Affect B&N Investors' Mood Barnes & Noble, Inc. last week reported sagging performance for its first quarter ended May 2, 2009. But perhaps more troubling is that during the past three months,...
Borders Names Information-And e-Commerce Chiefs
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 28 - June 4, 2009 Edition Borders Names Information And e-Commerce Chiefs ANN ARBOR, MI/Authorlink News/05/26/09--Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) today announced two appointments within its Information Technology (IT) group: Scott Laverty,...
Ingram Companies, Book Group Restructure for Digital Trade
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 28 - June 4, 2009 Edition Ingram Companies, Book Group Restructure for Digital Trade NASHVILLE - John Ingram announced May 26 the formation of a single new company - Ingram Content Group Inc. - in order to provide better print and digital...
Baker Wins Indie Book Award-for Cancer Is A Bitch
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 21 - May 28, 2009 Edition Baker Wins Indie Book Award for Cancer Is A Bitch MADISON, WI--Writer and breast cancer survivor Gail Konop Baker can add "award-winning author" in front of her name. The Madison resident thought she had a compelling...
Hastings Book Retailer Reports-Decline in First Quarter Earnings
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 21 - May 28, 2009 Edition Hastings Book Retailer Reports Decline in First Quarter Earnings AMARILLO,TX/Authorlink News/05/19/09--Hastings Entertainment, a leading multimedia entertainment retailer and new and used books, today reported results...
Chinese eBooks Coming-To North American Libraries
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 21 - May 28, 2009 Edition Chinese eBooks Coming To North American Libraries CLEVELAND, OH/Authorlink News/05/19/09--OverDrive (www.overdrive.com), a leading global distributor of digital audiobooks, eBooks, and more to libraries, yesterday...
Scribd Opens Social-Publishing Website
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 21 - May 28, 2009 Edition Scribd Opens Social Publishing Web Site SAN FRANCISCO/05/19/09--Scribd, Inc., the world's largest social publishing website, yesterday launched its online document store where anyone-from professionals , publishers,...
Bowker Reports Book Production-Declines While On-Demand Soars
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 21 - May 28, 2009 Edition Bowker Reports Book Production Declines While On-Demand Soars NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ/Authorlink News/05/19/09--Bowker, the global leader in bibliographic information management solutions, today released statistics on U.S....
Iowa Writing Festival-Features CLMP Book Fair
GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES May 14 - 21, 2009 Edition Iowa Writing Festival Features CLMP Book Fair Iowa (Authorlink News, May 14, 2009)--The Iowa Review and The Council of Literary Magazines and Presses are co-sponsoring the CLMP Lit Mag and Small Press Fair as part of...
