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...
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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...
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...
