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,...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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Family Version of O.J.'s Controversial Memoir Finds Publisher NEW YORK, NY/8/13/07--O.J. Simpson's, controversial unpublished memoir, If I Did It, has found a publisher, according to an item in Publishers...
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...
Torstar’s Harlequin Shows Slight Gain In Second Quarter
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 9 - August 16, 2007 Edition Torstar's Harlequin Shows Slight Gain In Second Quarter TORONTO, ONTARIO/8/1/07--Torstar Corporation, which owns a leading women's fiction publisher Harlequin Enterprises Limited, has announced its results for the...
Indigo Continues Strong Upward Trend in Second Quarter
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 9 - August 16, 2007 Edition Indigo Continues Strong Upward Trend In Second Quarter TORONTO/8/6/07--Canada's largest book retailer Indigo Books & Music, Inc. (TSX: IDG), posted an 8.5% gain in revenues to C$184.9 million for the quarter...
CBS Gets Creative With Mobile Ad Consortium
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 9 - August 16, 2007 Edition CBS Gets Creative With Mobile Ad Consortium NEW YORK, NY/8/2/07--CBS Mobile has forged partnerships with four of the country's leading mobile advertising-enabling companies - AdMob, Millennial Media, Rhythm...
