MAIN NEWS HEADLINES September 6 - September 13, 2007 Edition Jack Romanos To Retire As CEO Of Simon & Schuster New York/9/6/07--Jack Romanos, President and Chief Executive Officer of Simon & Schuster, Inc., announced today that he will retire from that post, effective...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
