MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 6 - September 13, 2007 Edition Bertelsmann Strengthens Random House's Role in Book Club Operations Gütersloh/9/3/07--The international media company Bertelsmann is charting the course for a reorganization of its direct-to-customer...
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Robert J. Sawyer Wins China’s Top Science Fiction Award
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 30 - September 6, 2006 Edition Robert J. Sawyer Wins China's Top Science Fiction Award Chengdu, China/8/26/2007--Robert J. Sawyer of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, today won China's top science-fiction award, the Galaxy Award, in the category...
Tor to Deliver First Podcast From 65th World Sci-Fi Meet
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 30 - September 6, 2006 Edition Tor to Deliver First Podcast From 65th World Sci-Fi Meet NEW YORK, NY/8/28/07--Tor Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC--the largest publisher of science fiction in the world--will deliver its first...
Books-A-Million Sales Gain 9.6% In Second Quarter
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 30 - September 6, 2006 Edition Books-A-Million Sales Gain 9.6% In Second Quarter BIRMINGHAM, AL/8/23/07–Books-A-Million, Inc. (NASDAQ:BAMM) yesterday announced financial results for the second quarter ended August 4, 2007. Net sales...
Barnes & Noble Sales Increase 7.6% in Second Quarter
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 30 - September 6, 2006 Edition Barnes & Noble Sales Increase 7.6% in Second Quarter NEW YORK, NY/8/23/07--Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, August 23 reported that sales for the second quarter ended August...
Random House To Donate $1 Million To National Literacy
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 30 - September 6, 2006 Edition Random House To Donate $1 Million To National Literacy Group NEW YORK, NY/8/27/07--Random House, Inc., the U.S. division of Random House, the world’s largest trade book publisher, will donate one million...
Beaufort Books Plans Huge Initial Printing of Simpson’s If I Did It
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 30 - September 6, 2006 Edition Beaufort Books Plans Huge Initial Printing of Simpson's If I Did It NEW YORK, NY/8/28/07--Beaufort Books, which earlier this month finalized a publishing deal with the Goldman family for the O.J. Simpson...
Bantam Launches-New Imprint-In Dual Format
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 23- August 30, 2007 Edition Bantam Launches New Imprint In Dual Format NEW YORK, NY/8/22/2007--Bantam Dell, a division of Random House, is launching Bantam Discovery, a new imprint that will publish one title per month in both trade...
Britains Former Prime Minister Shops Book Deal
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 23- August 30, 2007 Edition Britains Former Prime Minister Shops Book Deal WASHINGTON, DC/8/16/07--Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has hired Washington attorney and literary agent Robert Barnett to sell an as-yet-unwritten memoir,...
UNC Book Rental Program to Help Students Ease Costs
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 23- August 30, 2007 Edition UNC Book Rental Program to Help Students Ease Costs RALEIGH, NC/8/20/07-U.S. textbook prices have been rising at double the rate of inflation for the past two decades, according to a Government Accountability...
