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,...
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Amazon.com Faces More Outages
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...
Borders to Close Sale of Some Foreign Units to A&R Whitcoulls
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 12 - June 19, 2008 Edition Borders Closes Sale of Some ForeignUnits to A&R Whitcoulls ANN ARBOR, Mich./6/10/2008Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) has closed the sale of 100 percent of its Australia/New Zealand/Singapore businesseswhich include...
ALA Conference-to Examine-Libel Terrorism
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 Associations 2008 Annual Conference will take a long, hard look at the use of foreign libel laws as a...
BookLocker Files-Class Action Suit-Against Amazon
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 5 - 12, 2008 Edition BookLocker Files Class Action Suit Against Amazon Bangor,Maine/6/2/2008--BookLocker.com, Inc., an independent print-on-demand (POD) publishing company, filed a class action antitrust suit against Amazon.com, Inc. and its...
Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt Completes-College Division Sale
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 5 - 12, 2008 Edition Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Completes College Division Sale BOSTON/6/2/2008Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company has announced the completion of the sale of the Houghton Mifflin College Division to Cengage Learning,...
Random House/Zogby-Poll Finds Most Readers-Prefer Printed Books
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 5 - 12, 2008 Edition Random House/Zogby Poll Finds Most Readers Prefer Printed Books UTICA, NEW YORK/6/1/2008--Random House and Zogby International released an extensive survey May 30 that explores how and where readers shop, what makes them...
Borders Eliminates-20 Percent of Work Force-At Ann Arbor Headquarters
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 5 - 12, 2008 Edition Borders Eliminates 20 Percent of Work Force At Ann Arbor Headquarters ANN ARBOR, MICH/6/3/2008--Borders Group Inc.has eliminated 20 percent of its corporate workforce this week, including 156 jobs at its Ann Arbor...
Farley Named-Permanent Head-of Henry Holt
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 5 - 12, 2008 Edition Farley Named Permanent Head of Henry Holt NEW YORK, NY/6/3/2008--Dan Farley has been named permanent president and publisher of Henry Holt & Company. He has been heading the company as interim president since February,...
TRENDS Report Shows Publishers’ Net Revenues Rise 4.4%
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 5 - 12, 2008 Edition TRENDS Report Shows Publishers' Net Revenues Rise 4.4% New York, New York/5/31/2008--The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has just released figures from the upcoming 2008 edition of Book Industry TRENDS, the comprehensive...
