MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 31 - June 7, 2006 Edition Authors Guild Holds Firm Against S&S Rights Changes NEW YORK, NY/5/29/07-The Authors’ Guild is standing firm against what it calls an electronic “rights grab” by Simon & Schuster, which...
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MPS Macmobile To Offer Publishers Mobile Text Delivery
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 31 - June 7, 2006 Edition MPS Macmobile To Offer Publishers Mobile Text Delivery PORTLAND, OR/5/29/07--Macmillan Publishing Solutions (MPS) will be announcing the launch of its new MPS Macmobile service at Book Expo America. The service allows...
Ballantine to Publish Book On Tour De France Doping Controversy
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 24- May 31, 2007 Edition Ballantine to Publish Book On Tour De France Doping Controversy NEW YORK/5/17/07--Ballantine Books will publish FROM LANCE TO LANDIS: Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour de France by award-winning...
Scholastic Signs R.L. Stine to New Horror Series
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 24- May 31, 2007 Edition Scholastic Signs R.L. Stine to New Horror Series NEW YORK, NY/5/21/07-American novelist R.L. Stine, best known for his young adult novels and the wildly successful Goosebumps series, has signed a contract with...
AAP Reports Sales Of Books Totalled $ 24.2 Billion in 2006
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 24- May 31, 2007 Edition AAP Reports Sales Of Books Totalled $ 24.2 Billion in 2006 NEW YORK, NY/05/22/07--The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has today released its annual estimate of total book sales in the United States. The report,...
Small Press Center Changes Name, Broadens Scope
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 24- May 31, 2007 Edition Small Press Center Changes Name, Broadens Scope NEW YORK, NY/5/23/2007--The New York-based Small Press Center will officially re-launch itself under a new name May 31 at BookExpoAmerica. The organization, now be called...
Hachette Renames Business Imprint Teams With UK Unit
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 24- May 31, 2007 Edition Hachette Renames Business Imprint, Teams With UK Unit NEW YORK, NY/5/23/07-As part of its buyout agreement with Time Warner Book Group, Hachette Book Group USA is in the process of renaming some of its divisions...
Agents Join Guild In Opposing S&S Digital Rights Terms
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 24- May 31, 2007 Edition Agents Join Guild In Opposing S&S Digital Rights Terms NEW YORK, NY/5/21/07--The Authors Guild last week issued an alert to its members urging them not to sign book publishing contracts with Simon & Schuster and to...
Bertelsmann Strips Down Bookspan Clubs, Cuts Jobs
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 24- May 31, 2007 Edition Bertelsmann Strips Down Bookspan Clubs, Cuts Jobs 5/23/07--Bertelsmann AG, the Germany-based worldwide media conglomerate, is initiating a major restructuring of its book clubs after its recent purchase of Bookspan. The...
Graywolf Names New Marketing And Managing Directors
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 17 - May 24, 2007 Edition Graywolf Names New Marketing And Managing Directors St. PAUL, MN/5/14/07-The nonprofit St. Paul-based Graywolf Press has named Anna Peterson to the new post of managing director and Rolph Blythe as marketing...
