MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 9 - 16, 2008 Edition Book Sales Up for August AAP Reports NEW YORK, NY (Authorink, Oct. 8, 2008)--Book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for the month of August increased by 0.6 percent at $1.5 billion but were...
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Sony’s New Device Gives Readers “Feel” for Literature
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 9 - 16, 2008 Edition New Sony Device Gives Readers "Feel" for Literature SAN DIEGO, CA (Authorlink, Oct. 9, 2008).--Sony last week announced its new Sony Reader Digital Book, letting readers truly let their fingers do the walking. An...
Borders Extends E-Books Commitment, Carries Sony’s New Reader
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 9 - 16, 2008 Edition Borders Extends E-Books Commitment, Carries Sony's New Reader ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Authorlink, Oct.9, 2008)--Borders(R), the first retailer beyond SonyStyle(R) stores to carry Sony's Reader Digital Book beginning in 2006,...
Publisher Atlas Postpones Spring List Due to Finances
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 9 - 16, 2008 Edition Publisher Atlas Postpones Spring List Due to Finances NEW YORK, NY (Authorlink, Oct. 9, 2008)--Atlas & Co., an independent nonfiction publisher founded in 2002, has alerted its authors that it will be unable to...
Booksellers Asked to Encourage Authors to Ban Amazon.Com
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 9 - 16, 2008 Edition Booksellers Asked to Encourage Authors to Ban Amazon.Com Dearborn, MI (Authorlink, Oct. 7, 2008)--Great Lakes Independent Booksellers were told by the association's outgoing president Carol Besse at their fall trade...
Borders Group Confirms Pershing Stock Purchase
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 2 - 9, 2008 Edition Borders Group Confirms Pershing Stock Purchase ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 1, 2008--Consistent with a previously announced agreement, Borders Group, Inc.(NYSE: BGP) has issued warrants to Pershing Square Capital Management,...
Publishers Cheer House Passage of Libel Tourism Act
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 2 - October 9, 2008 Edition Publishers Cheer House Passage of Libel Tourism Act Washington, DC/9/30/08--The Association of American Publishers yesterday cheered the passage of legislation by the U.S. House of Representatives late Saturday...
Cartoon Network Del Rey Manga Form Partnership
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 2 - October 9, 2008 Edition Cartoon Network, Del Rey Manga Form Partnership NEW YORK, NY/9/28/08--Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, in collaboration with Cartoon Network Enterprises,...
Borders Publishing To Release Grisham and Donaldson’s Epic
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 2 - October 9, 2008 Edition Borders Publishing To Release Grisham and Donaldson's Epic ANN ARBOR, MI/09/30/08"Bedlam South," a historical novel about the Civil War and the chaos and uncertainty it unleashed on the lives of Southerners, has...
Publishers Applaud Senate Passage of ‘Orphan Works’ Law
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 2 - October 9, 2008 Edition Publishers Applaud Senate Passage of 'Orphan Works' Law WASHINGTON, DC/09/29/08-The publishing industry this week praised the U.S. Senate's swift passage of the "Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008" (S.2913)...
