MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 2 - August 9, 2006 Edition Lagardere Publishing Revenues Boosted By Time Warner Assets PARIS, FRANCE/7/26/07--Lagardere SCA, the French media company that owns Hachette Book Group (formerly Time Warner Book Group) in the U.S., reported a...
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Penguin USA Shows Profit Despite Weak Dollar
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 2 - August 9, 2006 Edition Penguin USA Shows Profit Despite Weak Dollar NEW YORK, NY/7/20/07--The Penguin Group, part of Pearson (FTSE: PSON; NYSE: PSO), the international media company, today reported its operating results for the first...
AMS Files Claim Against Baker & Taylor for Withholding Payments
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES August 2 - August 9, 2006 Edition AMS Files Claim Against Baker & Taylor for Withhlding Payments WILMINGTON, DELAWARE/7/31/07--Advanced Marketing Services has filed a court motion claiming that Baker & Taylor has unlawfully withheld $6.2 million...
Ballantine Acquires Unusual VampireTrilogy by Cronin
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...
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...
