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 -...
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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...
Hachette USA Boosts Performance for Lagardere Publishing
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,...
McGraw-Hill Reaffirms-Double Digit Earnings Growth for 2007
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 20 - September 27, 2007 Edition McGraw-Hill Reaffirms Double-Digit Earnings Growth for 2007 NEW YORK, NY/9/18/07--In a presentation today at Goldman Sachs' Communacopia XVI 2007 conference, Harold McGraw III, chairman, president and...
Former Fed Chair Greenspan’s Book Tops Online Sales
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 20 - September 27, 2007 Edition Former Fed Chair Greenspan's Book Sales Outrank Rowling, O.J. NEW YORK, NY/9/18/2007--Alan Greenspan's new book The Age of Turbulence climbed to No. 1 on bestseller lists at both Amazon.com and...
Publisher Starts Imprint by Political Critic Mark Crispin Miller
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 20 - September 27, 2007 Edition Indie Publisher Starts Imprint by Political Critic Mark Crispin Miller NEW YORK, NY/9/19/2007--Ig Publishing, an independent publisher based in Brooklyn, has commissioned popular political critic Mark...
HarperCollins Acquires James Frey’s Novel
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 20 - September 27, 2007 Edition HarperCollins Acquires James Frey's Novel NEW YORK, NY9/20/07--HarperCollins last week announced the acquisition of North American rights to Bright Shiny Morning, a novel by New York Times bestselling...
Del Rey to Publish Heroes Novel Based on Hit TV Series
GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES September 20 - September 27, 2007 Edition Del Rey to Publish Heroes Novel, Based on Hit TV Series NEW YORK, NY/9/18/07Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced plans to publish a novel based on...
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...
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...
