MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 11 - October 15, 2007 Edition Flying Dolphin to Publish comedian Lange's Book NEW YORK, NY/10/09/07--Julie Grau, Senior Vice President and Publisher of Spiegel & Grau, has acquired TOO FAT TO FISH, a memoir by the actor, comedian, and radio...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 11 - October 15, 2007 Edition Carole Baron to Acquire Exclusively for Knopf NEW YORK, NY/10/08/07--Carole Baron has agreed to acquire books exclusively for the Knopf imprint at Random House. Baron, who is senior vice president of Bookspan,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 11 - October 15, 2007 Edition Book Distributor Bookworld Closes, Bankruptcy Likely SARASOTA, FL/10/5/07--Bookworld Companies, a Florida-based distribution company with more than 100 small publishers and several larger ones as clients, has...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 11 - October 15, 2007 Edition Simon & Schuster, Random House Establish New Units NEW YORK, NY/10/11/07--Two major New York publishers, Simon & Schuster and Random House, each have announced the establishment of new publishing units this...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 11 - October 15, 2007 Edition Writers Guild Poised for Strike Over Residuals LOS ANGELES, CA/10/9/07--The Writers Guild of America was due to return to the negotiating table with television networks and film studios Tuesday evening (October...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 11 - October 15, 2007 Edition Trans World Stores to Add Manga Sections In All Store Locations BAYONNE, NJ/10/5/07--Trans World Entertainment Corp, one of the largest specialty music and video retailers in the United States, has hired...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 11 - October 15, 2007 Edition Frankfurt Book Fair Study Shows Digitization Heads Industry's Top Challenge FRANKFURT, GERMANY/10/8/07--The organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world’s largest fair for the book and media industry,...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 11 - October 15, 2007 Edition Holtzbrinck Publishers Changes Name to Macmillan FRANKFURT, GERMANY/10/10/07--Holtzbrinck Publishers announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week that it has changed its name to Macmillan Publishing. The move...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 4 - October 11, 2007 Edition Two Key Editors Depart Random House NEW YORK, NY/10/4/07--Two editors have recently announced their departure from Random House. Amy Hertz, left Broadway's Morgan Road imprint when RH announced in May 2007 that...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 4 - October 11, 2007 Edition Borders Books Teams With Court TV, Gather.com In Crime Writing Contest ANN ARBOR, MI/10/1/07-- Borders, Inc., Court TV and Gather.com, today announced an alliance designed to find "The Next Great Crime Writer"...