MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 11 - December 18, 2008 Edition Economic Downturn Prompts Macmillan To Freeze Salaries (Authorlink News, December 11, 2008)--John Sargent, CEO of MacMillan US, parent company for St. Martin's Press, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Tor and other...
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Random House Announces Major Restructuring
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 4 - December 11, 2008 Edition Random House Announces Major Restructuring NEW YORK, NY (Authorlink News, December 3, 2008)--Random House Chairman and CEO Markus Dohle today announced a new organizational alignment for the adult publishing...
Infinity Quietly Settles With Scholastic for Harry Potter Breach
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 4 - December 11, 2008 Edition Infinity Quietly Settles With Scholastic for Harry Potter Breach NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/12/3/08--Scholastic Inc. and Infinity Resources, Inc. which operates DeepDiscount.com, announced the day before...
Google Expert Refutes Author’s View of Settlement
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 4 - December 11, 2008 Edition Google Expert Refutes Author's View of Settlement Authorlink News/12/04/08In an ongoing discussion since October about Google's $125 million settlement with the Association of American Publishers and...
Another B. Dalton Bookstore Closes As BN Cuts Costs
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 4 - December 11, 2008 Edition Another B. Dalton Bookstore Closes As BN Cuts Costs FORT COLLINS, CO/Authorlink News/12/4/08--Another of Barnes & Noble's B. Dalton Book Stores will be closed January 17, 2009, this time at the Foothills Mall...
NBN to Offer Indy Publishers Digital Distribution
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 4 - December 11, 2008 Edition NBN to Offer Indy Publishers Digital Distribution LANHAM, MD/Authorlink News/12/4/08--The National Book Network this month will begin offering its publishing customers digital distribution, short run and...
HMH Publisher Becky Saletan Resigns Post
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 4 - December 11, 2008 Edition HMH Publisher Becky Saletan Resigns Post NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/12/2/08Becky Saletan, the senior vice president and publisher of adult trade books at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has resigned, effective...
Author Outraged Over Google Settlement
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 27 - December 4, 2008 Edition Author Outraged Over Google Settlement Opinion Authorlink News/11/27/08In an ongoing discussion this week about Google's $125 million settlement with the Association of American Publishers and Authors Guild,...
Books-a-Million Sales Decline In Third Quarter
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 27 - December 4, 2008 Edition Books-a-Million Sales Decline In Third Quarter BIRMINGHAM, AL/Authorlink News/11/27/08--Books-A-Million, Inc. last week announced financial results for the third quarter and 39-week period ended November 1,...
Offers for Reed Elsevier Magazine Unit Fall By Half
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 27 - December 4, 2008 Edition Offers for Reed Elsevier Magazine Unit Fall By Half NEW YORK, NY/Authorlink News/11/24/08Bids for Reed Elsevier Plc's trade magazine unit, which includes Publishers Weekly, have dropped to half of what the...
