MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 20 - September 27, 2007 Edition Hachette USA Boosts Performance for Lagardere Publishing NEW YORK, NY/9/13/2007--LAGARDERE SCA's Lagardere Publishing division, encompassing Hachette Book Group USA and other publishing units worldwide,...
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Bloomsbury USA Suffers Decline In First Half
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 20 - September 27, 2007 Edition Bloomsbury USA Suffers Decline In First Half LONDON/9/18/07--Sales at Bloomsbury USA, a division of the UK's Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, declined by 14.9% to £5.8 million ($12 million) in the first six...
McCarthy Wins Quill Award for Best Fiction
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 13 - September 20, 2007 Edition McCarthy Wins Quill Award for Best Fiction NEW YORK, NY/9/11/07-- Cormac McCarthy has been named by the Quills Literacy Foundation as the best general fiction writer of the year for his book The Road...
National Book Foundation to Honor Author Joan Didion
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 13 - September 20, 2007 Edition National Book Foundation to Honor Author Joan Didion NEW YORK, NY/9/10/07--Joan Didion will receive the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on November 14...
Inmates File Lawsuit Against Prison Bureau for Limiting Religious Books
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 13 - September 20, 2007 Edition Inmates File Lawsuit Against Prison Bureau for Religious Books Ban NEW YORK, NY/9/10/2007--Two federal prison inmates in upstate New York have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of...
Conservative Book Club Acquires American Compass
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 13 - September 20, 2007 Edition Conservative Book Club Acquires American Compass WASHINGTON, DC/9/11/07--The Conservative Book Club, which has specialized in conservative books for its members for 40 years, has acquired The American...
Two Self-Publishers Merge to Form Author Solutions
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 13 - September 20, 2007 Edition Two Self-Publishers Merge to Form Author Solutions BLOOMINGTON, IN/9/7/07--AuthorHouse and iUniverse have agreed to terms that will add iUniverse to the Author Solutions, Inc. family of brands. The...
Holtzbrinck Publishing Increases U.S. Revenues Across All Business Units
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 13 - September 20, 2007 Edition Holtzbrinck Publishing Increases U.S. Revenues Across All Business Units STUTTGART, GERMANY/9/11/07--The US publishing group, Holtzbrinck Publishers, privately owned by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck...
Jack Romanos -To Retire As CEO-Of Simon & Schuster
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 6 - September 13, 2007 Edition Jack Romanos To Retire As CEO Of Simon & Schuster New York/9/6/07--Jack Romanos, President and Chief Executive Officer of Simon & Schuster, Inc., announced today that he will retire from that post, effective...
Barnes and Noble-Agrees to Carry-If I Did It in Stores
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 6 - September 13, 2007 Edition Barnes & Noble Agrees to Carry If I Did It in Stores NEW YORK, NY/9/4/2007--Barnes & Noble Booksellers and Borders Book Stores both plan to carry If I Did It, the controversial book by O.J. Simpson that was...
