MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 4 - October 11, 2007 Edition S&S's New CEO Reidy Promotes Selleck, Eulau To Her Management Team NEW YORK, NY/10/02/07--Simon & Schuster's incoming CEO Carolyn Reidy has created two two positions on her senior management team. Reidy,...
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PW Retracts Story of AP Book Review Shutdown
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 4 - October 11, 2007 Edition PW Retracts Story of AP Book Review Shutdown NEW YORK, NY/10/2/07--Publishers Weekly has retracted a story it ran on 9/27 reporting that the Associated Press was discontinuing its book review package. PW ran a...
Investors Seek Seat on Borders Board of Directors
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 4 - October 11, 2007 Edition Investors Seek Seat on Borders Board of Directors NEW YORK, NY/10/1/07--Spencer Capital Management, LLC, an investment management firm that owns a 7.9% share in Borders Group, Inc., notified the SEC September 27...
PMA Urges Boycott Of Online Booksellers Selling Galleys and ARCs
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 4 - October 11, 2007 Edition PMA Urges Boycott Of Online Booksellers Selling Galleys and ARCs MANHATTAN BEACH, CA/10/2/07--The Publishers Marketing Association this week approved a resolution calling on all of its members to boycott online...
McGraw-Hill Prize Honors Visionaries of U.S. Classrooms
GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES September 27 - October 4, 2007 Edition McGraw-Hill Prize Honors Visionaries of U.S. Classrooms NEW YORK, NY/9/25/07--The 2007 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education honors three innovators - Lois B. DeFleur, Reynauld Smith and Vivien Stewart -...
Random House to Publish Norman Mailer’s New Book on Nature of God
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 27 - October 4, 2007 Edition Random House to Publish Norman Mailer's New Book on Nature of God NEW YORK, NY/9/24/07Random House will publish a new book by Norman Mailer next month, it was announced September 24 by Gina Centrello,...
Financial Times Picks Shortlist For Book of Year
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 27 - October 4, 2007 Edition Financial Times Picks Shortlist For Book of Year NEW YORK, NY/9/25/07--The shortlist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (www.ft.com/bookaward) was announced today. The...
Forbes Promises to Correct Serious Error In Ingram Sales Report
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 27 - October 4, 2007 Edition Forbes Promises to Correct Serious Error In Ingram Sales Report NASHVILLE, TN/9/25/07 John R. Ingram, Vice Chairman of Ingram Industries and Chairman of Ingram Book Group, said in a statement late last week...
New Borders UK Owner Confident in Future of Books
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 27 - October 4, 2007 Edition New Borders UK Owner Confident in Future of Books LONDON/9/25/07--Luke Johnson, the new owner of Borders U.K. told The Observer this week that he believes passionately in the future of books, but that "we're...
Harlequin Becomes First Major Publisher To Offer Frontlist eBooks
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 27 - October 4, 2007 Edition Harlequin Becomes First Major Publisher To Offer Frontlist eBooks TORONTO/9/24/07--Harlequin Enterprises Limited, one of the world's leading publishers of women's fiction, announced today that they...
