MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 3 - April 10, 2008 Edition Amazon/BookSurge Controversy Draws Official Statements SEATTLE, WA/LAVERGNE, TN/3/31/08--The heated controversy over whether Amazon will sell a POD book only if it has been printed by its subsidiary, BookSurge, has...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 3 - April 10, 2008 Edition Books-A-Million Quarterly Sales Up, Annual Figures Down BIRMINGHAM, AL/03/26/08 -- Books-A-Million, Inc. reported a 3% increase in net sales for the fourth quarter of 2008, while comparable store sales fell 1.6%...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 3 - April 10, 2008 Edition Roaring Brook Press to Launch Macaulay Imprint NEW YORK, NY/4/3/08--Roaring Brook Press, owned by Macmillan, will launch a new children's imprint, David Macaulay Studio, in 2011. Named for the award-winning author...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 3 - April 10, 2008 Edition ABFFE Condemns Indiana Bookstore Registration Law NEW YORK, NY/4/3/08--The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) last week condemned a new Indiana law that requires mainstream bookstores to...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 3 - April 10, 2008 Edition Random House Buys Sony Readers for Staff NEW YORK, NY/4/1/08--Several hundred Random House employees will soon be equipped with their own Sony Readers. In an effort to cut paper waste and speed up the manuscript...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 27 - Apr 03, 2008 Edition Penguin Releases Chinese Bestseller Wolf Totem NEW YORK, NY/3/27/2008--Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Group USA, today will release the acclaimed Chinese novel, Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong in the USA.   The...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 27 - Apr 03, 2008 Edition Penguin UK Launches Downloadable Short Stories by Top Authors NEW YORK, NY/3/27/2008--Starting 18 March, Penguin UK launched its most ambitious digital writing project to date. In collaboration with fêted alternate...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 27 - Apr 03, 2008 Edition Barnes & Noble Launches the How-To Website, Quamut.com New York, NY/3/25/2008--Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, announced yesterday that it has launched Quamut.com, a new how-to...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 27 - Apr 03, 2008 Edition B&N, Borders Showing Signs of Slowing Economy NEW YORK, NY/3/27/2008--America's two largest retail bookstore chains both made the news last week as Borders Group, Inc. announced the retailer is now for sale, and...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 27 - Apr 03, 2008 Edition Book Sales Rise in 2008, AAP Reports New York, NY/3/25/2008--Book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for the month of January saw an increase of 7.2 percent for the month, the AP reported...