MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 19 - June 26, 2008 Edition Bookstore Sales Rise For April '08 WASHINGTON, DC/6/17/08--The U.S. Census Bureau last week reported bookstore sales rose 8.0%in April to $1.0 billion. The Bureau also revised its estimates for March down to $1.02...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 19 - June 26, 2008 Edition ISBN Agency Updates Prediction For 979-Prefix Usage NEW YORK, NY/6/17/08--The International ISBN Agency has told Authorlink that it is revising its prediction of when the new 979 prefix will begin appearing in ISBN...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 19 - June 26, 2008 Edition Bertelsmann Shuts Chinese Retail Bookstore Chain HONG KONG/6/16/08--Bertelsmann AG, which owns Random House in the USA, will shut down its Beijing 21st Century Book Store chain by July 31, ending a 12 year effort to...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 12 - June 19, 2008 Edition Harper Studio Team Shaping Up The new Harper Studio imprint at HarperCollins is staffing up under the direction of Publisher Robert S. (Bob) Miller. Debbie Stier joins Studio as senior vice president and associate...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 12 - June 19, 2008 Edition Thomas Nelson Combines Christian Sales Divisions NEW YORK, NY/6/9/08--Thomas Nelson, publisher of Bibles, Christian fiction and nonfiction books, is merging its two Christian sales divisions into a single group to be...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 12 - June 19, 2008 Edition Ingram Folds Lightning Source Into New Structure NASHVILLE/6/12/08--John Ingram, Chairman of the Ingram Content Companies, announced last Thursday that the company would fold the leading print-on-demand publisher,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 12 - June 19, 2008 Edition HarperCollins Undergoes Restructuring NEW YORK, NY/6/5/08--After the sudden departure of Jane Friedman as CEO of HarperCollins Publishers last week, and her replacement by Brian Murray as worldwide president and CEO,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 12 - June 19, 2008 Edition Amazon.com Faces More Outages NEW YORK/6/9/08--Amazon.com Inc.'s web site was periodically inaccessible Monday, June 9, according to The Associated Press. The sporatic outages occured only days after the site went...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 12 - June 19, 2008 Edition Borders Closes Sale of Some ForeignUnits to A&R Whitcoulls ANN ARBOR, Mich./6/10/2008—Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) has closed the sale of 100 percent of its Australia/New Zealand/Singapore businesses—which include...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 5 - 12, 2008 Edition ALA Conference To Examine "Libel Terrorism" Washington, DC, June 3, 2008: A program to be held at the American Library Association’s 2008 Annual Conference will take a long, hard look at the use of foreign libel laws as a...