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"...
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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,...
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...
