MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 19 - June 26, 2008 Edition Michael Eisner, Borders Team Up On Web Series ANN ARBOR, MI/6/17/08-- Borders Books has formed an alliance with former Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Eisner's now independent media studio, Vuguru, to distribute...
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Author Sues Distributor Bookstores, Too
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 19 - June 26, 2008 Edition Author Sues Distributor, Bookstores, Too NEW YORK, NY/6/18/08--An interesting copyright infringement law suit has been filed by author Larry Townsend against 40 booksellers and his distributor. According to an item...
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./6/10/2008—Borders Group, Inc. (NYSE: BGP) has closed the sale of 100 percent of its Australia/New Zealand/Singapore businesses—which include...
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...
HarperCollins Undergoes Major Restructuring
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,...
Ingram Folds Lightning Source Into New Strucutre
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,...
Nelson Combines Christian Sales Divisions
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...
Harper Studio Team Shaping Up
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...
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...
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,...
