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Lagardere Publishing Reports 8.6% Increase Driven by Hachette

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 14 - February 21, 2008 Edition Lagardere Publishing Reports 8.6% Increase Driven by Hachette PARIS/2/8/08--Worldwide revenues at Lagardere Publishing (formerly the Book division) grew 8.6% in 2007, to 2.13 billion euros ($2.77 billion),...

Bowker Launches-Real Time Catalogue Sharing System

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 14 - February 21, 2008 Edition Bowker Launches Real-Time Catalogue Sharing System NEW PROVIDENCE, NJ/2/12/08--Bowker, the global leader in bibliographic information management, last week announced the launch of a pilot project to increase...

Striking Writers Due to Resume Work This Week

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 14 - February 21, 2008 Edition Striking Writers Due to Resume Work This week HOLLYWOOD, CA/2/11/08--Hollywood writers were expected to return to work the week of February 11, ending a costly three-month-old writers strike by the Writers...

Harper Offers Full Title Access; Helps Authors Promote

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 14 - February 21, 2008 Edition Harper Offers Full Title Access; Helps Authors Promote NEW YORK, NY/2/11/08--HarperCollins will now give full online access to some of its titles, according to The New York Times. The publisher has been...

Publishers Prepare-For Transformation-At O’Reilly Event

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 14 - February 21, 2008 Edition Publishers Prepare For Transformation At O’Reilly Event NEW YORK, NY/2/12/2008--Today’s publishers face a gaping landscape of technological change, from everywhere they turn-- in writing and development,...

Publishers Support-Valerie Plame-in CIA Lawsuit

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 7 - February 14, 2008 Edition Publishers Support Valerie Plame in CIA Lawsuit Washington, DC, 2/6/2008--The Association of American Publishers (AAP), joined by 11 groups representing a wide spectrum of media and free-speech interests, is...

Court Dismisses Authors’ Case Against Regnery

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 7 - February 14, 2008 Edition Court Dismisses Authors' Case Against Regnery WASHINGTON, DC/2/5/08--A federal judge last week dismissed a lawsuit filed in November by five authors against Regnery Publishing's parent company, Eagle...

Book Publishers Annual Meeting to Look to the Future

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 7 - February 14, 2008 Edition Book Publishers' Annual Meeting to Look to the Future NEW YORK, NY/2/4/08-- The Association of American Publishers will be focusing on The Future of Publishing at its annual meeting Wednesday March 5, 2008 at...

HarperCollins Sees $13 million Gain In Second Quarter

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 7 - February, 2008 Edition HarperCollins Sees $13 million Gain In Second Quarter NEW YORK, NY/2/4/08--HarperCollins Publishers reported second quarter operating income of $67 million, ending December 31 2007, an increase of $13 million...