MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 4, 2007 Edition New BISG Committee To Create Standards for Digital Content NEW YORK, NY/5/31/2007--The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has announced that it will team with the Association of American Publishers (AAP), to form a new Digital...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES June 4, 2007 Edition Female Readers Give A Few Surprises In New Study New York, NY/6/1/2007--A new study by Content Connections, a publishing services and consulting firm, has found a few surprises about female readers, which it revealed on June 1...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 31 - June 7, 2006 Edition Digital Dharma Marks Quest Books Launch Of New Brand at BEA New York, NY/5/31/07---Quest Books will launch its new logo at this year’s BookExpo America, June 1-3 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center.In business...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 31 - June 7, 2006 Edition Amazon Launches Harry Potter Kid Correspondent Quest SEATTLE, WA/5/29/07-­In a strategy vaguely similar to TV’s wildly popular American Idol, Amazon.com has announced it is seeking enthusiastic, energetic...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 31 - June 7, 2006 Edition Christian Publisher Zondervan’s CEO to Depart GRAND RAPIDS, MI/5/31/07– Zondervan last week announced its president and CEO, Doug Lockhart, will step down from his position effective June 1, 2007. Former...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...