MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 10 - January 17, 2008 Edition Baker & Taylor CEO Resigns; Eugster Appointed Chairman CHARLOTTE, NC/1/4/08--Baker & Taylor, Inc. announced today that Richard Willis has resigned as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Baker & Taylor, one...
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Borders Launches-Co-Branded Online-E-Book Store with Sony
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 3 - January 10, 2008 Edition Borders Launches Co-Branded Online E-Book Store with Sony ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 2, 2008--Borders® announced on December 20 that it has launched a co-branded online store with support from Sony offering digital...
Scholastic Reports Q2 Solid Results, Plans To Sell Home Unit
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 3 - January 10, 2008 Edition Scholastic Reports Q2 Solid Results, Plans To Sell Home Unit NEW YORK, NY/12/20/07--Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) today reported results for the fiscal second quarter ended November 30, 2007. The Company...
Bertelsmann Halts Plan To Buy Remaining Shares of RTL
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 3 - January 10, 2008 Edition Bertelsmann Halts Plan To Buy Remaining Shares of RTL Gütersloh/12/20/07--In a late-breaking statement during the holidays, Bertelsmann revealed it will not proceed with its previously-announced voluntary public...
U.S., Experts Ponder State of Book Industry Dying or Re-emerging?
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 20 - December 27, 2007 Edition U.S. Experts Ponder State of Book Industry: Dying or Re-emerging? NEW YORK, NY/12/18/07--NPR's recent book report in its On the Media segment continues to reverberate in several blog discussions this week,...
Random House To Publish Morgan Spurlock’s New Book
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 20 - December 27, 2007 Edition Random House To Publish Spurlock's Book on Bin Laden Morgan Spurlock, award-winning writer, producer and director of Super Size Me, will come to Random House for his new book, WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN...
New Harbinger Collaborative Publisher Buys Instant Help Books
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 20 - December 27, 2007 Edition New Harbinger Collaborative Publisher Buys Instant Help Books OAKLAND, CA/12/12/07--New Harbinger Publications, an Oakland-based collaborative publisher has acquired Instant Help Books, publisher of workbooks...
Bertelsmann Names Family Member Brigitte Mohn To Supervisory Board
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 20 - December 27, 2007 Edition Bertelsmann Names Family Member Brigitte Mohn To Supervisory Board Gütersloh/12/17/07--Brigitte Mohn, a shareholder in Bertelsmann Verwaltungsgesellschaft (BVG) and a member of the Bertelsmann Stiftung...
AAP Reports Publishing Sales Are Up for October
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 20 - December 27, 2007 Edition AAP Reports Publishing Sales Are Up for October NEW YORK, NY/12/17/07--Book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for the month of October saw an increase of 2.1 percent for the month;...
Olympia Vernon Receives Baton Rouge Literary Award
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 13 - December 20, 2007 Edition Olympia Vernon Receives Baton Rouge Literary Award BATON ROUGE, LA/12/11/07--The Baton Rouge Area Foundation has named Olympia Vernon the winner of the first annual Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary...
