MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 24 - July 31, 2008 Edition Penguin Group Achieves Strong Sales and Profits in First Half of 2008 NEW YORK and LONDON/7/28/08--Penguin Group reported a 9% increase in sales for the first half of the year, compared to 2007's midpoint. Profits...
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Amazon.com Sales Soar 41 Percent, Baron’s Warns of Stock Decline
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 31 - August 7, 2008 Edition Amazon.com Sales Soar 41%, Baron's Warns of Stock Decline SEATTLE/7/27/2008--Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) July 23 announced a 41% net sales increase to $4.06 billion in the second quarter, ended June 30, 2008,...
Christian Retail Show Attendance Down By 17%
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 24 - July 31, 2008 Edition Christian Retail Show Attendance Down By 17% ORLANDO, FL/7/22/08--Attendance at the Christian Booksellers Association's 2008 International Christian Retail Show this month fell by 17% over the previous year. Only...
ABA Offers Indys Plan to “Publish” Local Titles
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 24 - July 31, 2008 Edition ABA Offers Indys Plan to "Publish" Local Titles LAVERGNE, TN/7/22/2008--The American Booksellers Association (ABA), together with Applewood Books, has launched a program through Ingram's Lightning Source that enables...
Library Council Urges Congress to Preserve Old Sound Recordings
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 24 - July 31, 2008 Edition Library Council Urges Congress to Preserve Old Sound Recordings ANAHEIM, CA/7/24/08--The American Library Association Council last week passed a resolution emphasizing the need to preserve and provide access to sound...
McGraw-Hill Among Bidders for Reed’s Magazine Division
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 24 - July 31, 2008 Edition McGraw-Hill Among Bidders for Reed's Magazine Division LONDON/7/20/08-- Reed Business Information (RBI), whose titles include Publishers Weekly, and film industry bible Variety, Flight International and New...
Simon & Schuster Proposes E-Book Royalty Amendment
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 24 - July 31, 2008 Edition Simon & Schuster Proposes E-Book Royalty Amendment NEW YORK, NY/7/18/08--Simon & Schuster recently sent a one-page letter to a number of authors who have varying or unspecified e-book royalty rates, attempting to set...
Borders.com Launches New-Audiobook Download Service
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 17 - July 24, 2008 Edition Borders.com Launches New Audiobook Download Service ANN ARBOR, Mich.,/7/15/2008—Borders Audiobook Downloads—a new audiobook download service—was launched today on Borders.com, offering an initial...
NAIBA to Honor Indy Publisher Morgan Entrekin
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 17 - July 24, 2008 Edition NAIBA to Honor Indy Publisher Morgan Entrekin NEW YORK, NY/7/16/08--Morgan Entrekin, president and publisher of Grove/Atlantic, Inc., has been named the 2008 recipient of the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers...
Penguin Acquires World Rights to Four Seasons Business Book
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 17 - July 24, 2008 Edition Penguin Acquires World Rights to Four Seasons Business Book NEW YORK, NY/7/14/08--David Davidar, President and Publisher of Penguin Group (Canada) and Adrian Zackheim, Publisher of the Portfolio imprint of Penguin...
