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 worlds largest fair for the book and media industry,...
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Holtzbrinck Publishers Changes Name to Macmillan
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...
Two Key Editors Depart Random House
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...
Borders Books Teams With Court TV, Gather.com In Crime Writing Contest
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"...
S&S’s New CEO Reidy Promotes Selleck, Eulau To Her Management Team
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,...
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,...
