MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 26- August 2, 2006 Edition Ballantine Acquires Unusual Vampire Trilogy by Cronin NEW YORK, NY/7/23/07--Ballantine has acquired a new trilogy by well-known literary novelist Justin Cronin for $3.75 million. The trilogy, a departure from his PEN...
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McGraw-Hill Second Quarter Income Soars
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 26- August 2, 2006 Edition McGraw-Hill Second Quarter Income Soars NEW YORK, NY/7/24/07--The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) today reported diluted earnings per share increased 31.7% to $0.79 in the second quarter of 2007 compared to the...
Pegasus to Publish French Author Dumas’s Long Missing Novel
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 26- August 2, 2006 Edition Pegasus to Publish French Author Dumas's Long Missing Novel NEW YORK, NY/7/26/2007--Pegasus Books, the small New York publishing company founded in 2005 by Claiborne Hancock, has acquired U.S. rights to a long...
Fulcrum Acquires Speck Press Expands Lines
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 26- August 2, 2006 Edition Fulcrum Acquires Speck Press, Expands Lines GOLDEN, CO/7/23/07--Speck Press, a tiny independent publisher in Denver, has been acquired by Colorado-based Fulcrum Publishing. The news was announced by Fulcrm Publisher...
Borders Names Two New Vice Presidents Vanzura, Nasshan Depart
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 26- August 2, 2006 Edition Borders Names Two New Vice Presidents; Vanzura, Nasshan Depart ANN ARBOR, MI/7/19/07-Borders Group Inc. has named two new vice presidents just days after Ric Vanzura, vice president of emerging technology, and...
Harry Potter Sales Break All Records At Barnes & Noble
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 26- August 2, 2006 Edition Harry Potter Sales Break All Records at Barnes & Noble NEW YORK, NY, 7/23/2007--Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, sold a record 1.8 million copies of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter...
Scholastic to Sue Distributors for Leak In Potter Distribution
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 26- August 2, 2006 Edition Scholastic to Sue Distributors for Leak in Potter Distribution NEW YORK, NY/7/26/07--Book publisher Scholastic Corp. said it is taking immediate legal action against two companies that distributed the latest Harry...
Joseph Finder Wins Thriller Writers Best Novel Award
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 19 - July 26, 2007 Edition Joseph Finder Wins Thriller Writers' Best Novel Award NEW YORK, NY/7/17/07--Joseph Finder has been named winner of the second Thriller Award for Best Novel by The International Thriller Writers Association. Billed as...
MTV, Pocket Books Unveil Nikki Sixx’s ‘Heroin Diaries’
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 19 - July 26, 2007 Edition MTV, Pocket Books Unveil Nikki Sixx's 'Heroin Diaries' LOS ANGELES, CA/7/17/07–Executives from MTV along with sister company Pocket Books (a division of Simon & Schuster) held a press conference in a new venue, Crash...
Amazon Reveals The Harry-est Town in America
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES July 19 - July 26, 2007 Edition Amazon Reveals The Harry-est Town in America SEATTLE, WA/7/17/07--After months of tracking pre-orders of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Amazon.com can now reveal the Harry-est town in the country: Falls...
