MAIN NEWS HEADLINES April 3 - April 10, 2008 Edition Some Say Amazon's Bully Tactics Against Publishers May Violate Anti-Trust NEW YORK, NY/4/3/08--BookSurge, the print-on-demand subsidiary of Amazon.com, has caused controversy among a number of publishers after the...

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 CBC Announces Finalists for First Choice Awards NEW YORK, NY/3/25/12008--The Children's Book Council (CBC) in association with the CBC Foundation, launches the Children's Choice Book Awards program with the...

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...