MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 28 - July 5, 2007 Edition Top Publishers, Sony Support New Digital Ebooks Manager SAN JOSE, CA/6/19/07--Adobe Digital Editions 1.0, an engaging new way to read and manage eBooks and other digital publications, was unveiled last week at the...
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Authors Registry To Pay U.S. Authors Dutch Lending Royalties
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 28 - July 5, 2007 Edition Authors Registry To Pay U.S. Authors Dutch Lending Royalties 6/26/07--The Authors Registry, the not-for-profit organization founded by the Authors Guild and others, has received $537,000 for distribution to U.S....
John Wiley & Sons Reports Record Income In its Bicentennial Year
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 28 - July 5, 2007 Edition John Wiley & Sons Reports Record Income In its Bicentennial Year HOBOKWN, N.J./6/25/07 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb) announced June 21 that revenue for fiscal year 2007 of $1.2 billion...
Kensington Cancels Female POWs Story, S&S to Publish Instead
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 21- June 28, 2006 Edition Kensington Cancels Female POWs Story, S&S to Publish Instead NEW YORK, NY/6/20/07-Simon & Schuster has purchased the story of Shoshana Johnson, American’s first black female prisoner of war in Iraq,...
Times Reports Internet Retail Sales Slowing
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 21- June 28, 2006 Edition Times Reports Internet Retail Sales Slowing SAN FRANCISCO, CA/6/17/07--The New York Times June 16 reported that growth in Internet sales has dropped dramatically across a wide range of categories including books,...
Kensington in Deal With Hudson to Start New Kids Imprint
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 21- June 28, 2006 Edition Kensington Inks Deal With Hudson to Start New Kids Imprint NEW YORK, NY/6/20/07-Kensington Publishing Corp., the last independent U.S. publisher of hardcover, trade and mass market paperback books, has joined...
Simon & Schuster, Rodale Among First Publishers To Add Video Promos
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 21 - June 28, 2006 Edition Simon & Schuster, Rodale Among First Publishers To Add Video Promos NEW YORK, NY/6/19/07-Simon & Schuster and Rodale are among the first publishers to offer video clips of their authors, following a similar...
More Key Personnel Changes Take Place At Doubleday, Putnam
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 21 - June 28, 2006 Edition More Key Personnel Changes Take Place At Doubleday, Putnam NEW YORK, NY/6/29/07- G.P. Putnam and Doubleday Broadway and have been added to the list of major New York publishers who have made key personnel...
Bookstore Sales Continue to Drop Census Report Says
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 21 - June 28, 2006 Edition Bookstore Sales Continue to Drop Census Report Says 6/18/2007--The U.S. Census Bureau today reported that bookstore sales declined for yet another month in April by 6% to a total of $909 million. It was the fourth...
Author John Grogan Protests Publication Of Inquirer Book
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 14 - June 21, 2006 Edition Author John Grogan Protests Publication Of Inquirer Book New York, NY/6/11/2007Journalist and author John Grogan is protesting the publication of a collection of his newspaper columns by Vanguard Press under the...
