MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 3 - July 10, 2008 Edition Two Legendary Bookstores Close Up Shop WASHINGTON, DC AND NEW YORK/7/1/08--Two legendary bookstores, Olsson's Books & Records in the Penn Quarter of Washington, D.C., and Strand Bookstore in New York City, are closing...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 3 - July 10, 2008 Edition NPR Expands Book Reviews and Book Coverage NEW YORK, NY/7/1/08--National Public Radio (NPR) has hired a new staff of book reviewers and is expanding coverage of literary works using Internet tools such as feeds and...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 3 - July 10, 2008 Edition Tribune Page Cuts May Limit Book Coverage NEW YORK, NY/6/30/08--The Tribune Company, acquired in December 2007 by billionaire Sam Zell, is apparently planning to slash overall page counts across the newspaper chain as...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 26 - July 3, 2008 Edition Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau Open for Business NEW YORK/6/26/08--The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau, a new initiative that will bring a wide-ranging roster of bestselling, critically acclaimed, and expert...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 26 - July 3, 2008 Edition Bertelsmann Elects Gettkant to AG's Supervisory Board Gütersloh/6/24/08 – Helmut Gettkant (54), chairman of the Mohn Media works council and member of the Bertelsmann AG Corporate Works Council, has been elected as an...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 26 - July 3, 2008 Edition Complaints Surge Against WL Writers' Literary Agency NEW YORK, NY/6/26/08-- Authorlink has noted an upsurge in complaints within the past few months against WL Writer's Literary Agency, also known by a variety of...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 26 - July 3, 2008 Edition Borders Group Names New Fiction Buyer ANN ARBOR, MI/6/23/08­Borders Group, Inc. has named Jennifer Northcutt as Fiction buyer for Borders and Waldenbooks, effective immediately. She reports to Micha Hershman,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 26 - July 3, 2008 Edition Barnes & Noble Stock In Bearish Downtrend, Analysis Web Site Says NEW YORK, NY/6/23/2008-- Stocks for Barnes & Noble(BKS), the world's largest bookseller, are in a long term downward (Bearish) trend, according to...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 26 - July 3, 2008 Edition RC2 Corporation to Acquire Publications International's Children’s Publishing Unit OAK BROOK, IL/6/23/08--RC2 Corporation has signed definitive purchase agreements to acquire the Children’s Publishing Division (“CPD”)...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 26 - July 3, 2008 Edition AAP Says Book Sales Down in April, But Stable for the Year NEW YORK, NY/6/23/08--Book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for the month of April decreased by 3.5 percent to $473 million, and...