MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 16 - October 23, 2008 Edition F+W Media Restructures For Digital World CINCINNATI, OH (Authorlink/10/15/08)-- F+W Media, formerly known as F+W Publications, has reorganized the company around customer communities, replacing the old channel...
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Frankfurt Book Fair Survey Reveals Impact of Digitzing On Publishing World
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 16 - October 23, 2008 Edition Frankfurt Book Fair Survey Reveals Impact of Digitzing On Publishing World FRANKFURT, GERMANY (Authorlink/10/14/08)--a Frankfurt Book Fair survey released today reveals online bookselling as most important...
Nobel Literature Prize To be Announced By Webcast Oct. 9
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 9 - 16, 2008 Edition Nobel Literature Prize To be Announced By Webcast Oct. 9 STOCKHOLM, Sweden (Authorlink, Oct. 9/2008)--The Noble Prize in Literature for 2008--the highest honor for a writer--will be announced by the Swedish Academy...
Book Sales Up for August AAP Reports
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...
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...
