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...
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F+W Media Restructures For Digital World
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...
Simon and Schuster To Offer Book Excerpts Via MPS Global Reader
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 16 - October 23, 2008 Edition Simon & Schuster To Offer Book Excerpts Via MPS Global Reader TORONTO (Authorlink, Oct. 14, 2008) MPS Mobiles Global Reader, a worldwide mobile content distribution service, has cinched a major content...
Barnes & Noble Lags Broader Market Recovery, Analysts Say
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 16 - October 23, 2008 Edition Barnes & Noble Lags Broader Market Recovery, Analysts Say BOSTON (Authorlink/10/13/08 via MidnightTrader)--Barnes & Noble Inc. (BKS) missed out on Monday's stock rally. Hoover's and MidnightTrader reported at 6...
Newsweek Releases Candidate Bios Exclusively On Amazon.com’s Kindle
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 16 - October 23, 2008 Edition Newsweek Releases Candidate Bios Exclusively On Amazon.com's Kindle NEW YORK, (Authorlink/10/16/08)--Newsweek yesterday released four biographies on the presidential and vice presidential candidates for...
Del Rey Acquires King and Straub’s Graphic Novel
BOOK DEALS October 16 - October 23, 2008 Edition Del Rey Acquires Rights to King and Straub's Graphic Novel Talisman NEW YORK, NY (Authorlink/10/16/08)--Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced this week the acquisition...
National Book Award Finalists Named for 2008
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 16 - 23, 2008 Edition National Book Award Finalists Named for 2008 Chicago, Illinois (Authorlink, October 15, 2008) -The 20 Finalists for the 2008 National Book Awards, announced today, represent an extraordinary range of background and...
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...
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...
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,...
