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...
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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...
Penguin Launches Book Club for Two USA Divisions
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 23- August 30, 2007 Edition Penguin Launches Book Club for Two USA Divisions NEW YORK, NY/8/20/07--Penguin Group USA has launched an online resources site for reading groups. The site, called VP Book Club, offers short descriptions of...
Sourcebooks Adds Romance Fiction to Casablanca Line
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 23- August 30, 2007 Edition Sourcebooks Adds Romance Fiction to Casablanca Line NAPERVILLE, IL/8/20/07-Illinois-based Sourcebooks is expanding its Casablanca imprint to include fiction in all romance subgenres. The company has published...
Indy Distributor IPG to Represent Five New Publishers
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 16- August 23, 2007 Edition Indy Distributor IPG to Represent Five New Publishers 8/14/07--Independent Publishers Group, distributor to specialty and independent bookstores, has recently added five publishers to its list of distribution...
Goldman Family Version of O.J.’s Controversial Memoir Finds Publisher
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 16- August 23, 2007 Edition Goldman Family Version of O.J.'s Controversial Memoir Finds Publisher NEW YORK, NY/8/13/07--O.J. Simpson's, controversial unpublished memoir, If I Did It, has found a publisher, according to an item in Publishers...
BISG to Study Environmental Impact of U.S. Book Industry
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 16- August 23, 2007 Edition BISG to Study Environmental Impact of U.S. Book Industry New York, NY/8/14/07--The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and Green Press Initiative (GPI) today launched the US Book Industry Climate Impacts and...
Amazon’s New CreateSpace Offers Self-Publishing
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 16- August 23, 2007 Edition Amazon's New CreateSpace Offers Self-Publishing SCOTTS VALLEY, CA/8/8/2007--CreateSpace, part of the Amazon.com, Inc. group of companies (NASDAQ: AMZN), has announced the launch of a new online Books on Demand...
U.S. Bookstore Sales Continue to Decline
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 16- August 23, 2007 Edition U.S. Bookstore Sales Continue to Decline WASHINGTON, DC/8/14/07--Bookstore sales declined in June by 6.6% to $1.13 billion, compared to June 2006 sales of $1.21 billion, according to preliminary estimates from the...
