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...
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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...
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...
Bertelsmann Strengthens Random House’s Role in Book Club Operations
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...
Random House Sales Decline in First Half Year
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 6 - September 13, 2007 Edition Random House Sales Decline in First Half Year NEW YORK, NY/9/4/07--Random House, owned by media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG, today showed a decline in sales for the first half of the fiscal year. RH...
New Global Reader To Provide Content for Mobile Phones Authorlink to Provide Stories
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 6 - September 13, 2007 Edition New Global Reader To Provide Content for Mobile Phones Authorlink to Contribute Stories TORONTO, ON/9/6/07--Mobile phone users anywhere in the world will soon have the ability to download not just ring...
Fall Book Fairs Draw U.S. Publishers To Distant Lands
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 6 - September 13, 2007 Edition Fall Book Fairs Draw U.S. Publishers To Distant Lands 9/6/07--Two large book fairs will have drawn major US publishers to both China and Germany this fall, further emphasizing the growing globalization of...
Penguin China Lands Rights to Beckham’s Bestselling Style Guide
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 6 - September 13, 2007Edition Penguin China Lands Rights to Beckham's Bestselling Style Guide NEW YORK, NY/9/4/07--Business was bustling for Penguin Group at this years Beijing International Book Fair. One of the most significant deals...
Pocket to Publish Retrospective of Yankee Stadium
GENERAL NEWS HEADLINES September 6 - September 13, 2007 Edition Pocket to Publish Retrospective of Yankee Stadium NEW YORK, NY/9/4/07--Louise Burke, Pocket Books Executive Vice President and Publisher, has announced the acquisition of YANKEE STADIUM: The Official...
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...
