MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 18 - October 25, 2007 Edition Two Reporting Sources Show Book Sales Improved in August NEW YORK/NY/10/15/07--Book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for the month of August saw an increase of 9.8 percent for the...
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Barnes & Noble to Market Books on BlackBerry Phones
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 18 - October 25, 2007 Edition Barnes & Noble to Market Books on BlackBerry Phones NEW YORK, NY/10/15/07--Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, announced that Barnes & Noble.com ( www.bn.com) will market books,...
Quill Book Awards Honor Bourne Film Trilogy David Halberstam, Time Warner
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 18 - October 25, 2007 Edition Quill Book Awards Honor Bourne Film Trilogy, David Halberstam, Time Warner NEW YORK, NY/10/15/07Today, Reed Business Information (RBI) and the NBC Universal Television Stations announced the recipients of the...
Google Moves To Protect Online Video Copyrights
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 18 - October 25, 2007 Edition Google Moves To Protect Online Video Copyrights SAN BRUNO, CA/10/15/07Google is seeking to put an end to the copyright wars over online video, according to a report in the New York Times October 16. On Monday...
EU’s Albedo One Announces Top Short Fiction Winners
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 18 - October 25, 2007 Edition Ireland's Albedo One Announces Top Short Fiction Winners COPENHAGEN, DENMARK/10/15/07--The 2006-2007 Aeon Award for short fiction, sponsored by the Irish sci-fi/fan/horror publication, Albedo One, were...
Wiley-Blackwell COO Olivieri Leaves As Merger Period Concludes
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 18 - October 25, 2007 Edition Wiley-Blackwell COO Olivieri Leaves As Merger Period Concludes NEW YORK, NY/10/16/07--René Olivieri is leaving his post at year's end as COO of academic and professional publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing....
The Quills Literacy Foundation to Contribute to First Book
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 18 - October 25, 2007 Edition The Quills Literacy Foundation to Contribute to First Book NEW YORK, NY 10/16/07--The Quills Literacy Foundation, in partnership with NBC Universal Television Stations and Borders®, is auctioning a selection of...
Carole Baron to Acquire Exclusively for Knopf
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,...
Flying Dolphin to Publish Comedian Lange’s Book
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...
Book Association Launches National Reading Group Month
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 11 - October 15, 2007 Edition Book Association Launches National Reading Group Month /10/09/07--The Women's National Book Association (WNBA) is launching National Reading Group Month (NRGM) on October 29, 2007, at the New York Center for...
