MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 10 - July 17, 2008 Edition NY Booksellers to Create New Indy Organization NEW YORK,NY/7/10/08--A consortium of 20 independent New York City bookstores has now officially formed under the name Independent Booksellers of New York City. The group...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 10 - July 17, 2008 Edition Court Rules Google Must Give Youtube User Data to Viacom SAN FRANCISCO/7/4/08­ Google has been ordered by a US judge to expose to Viacom the video-viewing habits of everyone who has ever used YouTube. The...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 10 - July 17, 2008 Edition Sci-Fi Author Andre Norton's Estate Debated MURFREESBORO, TN/7/4/08--The late science fiction novelist Andre Norton left behind a real-life mystery when she died three years ago. Who will manage the rights for her...

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 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 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 Bauer Literary Agency Sues Wikipedia, Others NEW YORK, NY/7/1/08--Barbara Bauer of Barbara Bauer Literary Agency in New Jersey, has filed a lawsuit in Monmouth County Superior Court against Wikipedia, Absolute...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 3 - July 10, 2008 Edition WL Literary Rebutts SFWA Claim of Impropriety DALLAS, TX/6/30/08--Robert West, senior agent at WL Writer's Literary Agency, has responded to Authorlink about a story we ran on June 26, headlined "Complaints Surge...

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 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...