MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 17 - May 24, 2007 Edition Pearson Acquires eCollege® for $477m to Build Digital Clout LONDON/5/14/07--Pearson, the international education and information company, has agreed to acquire eCollege® (Nasdaq: ECLG), a leader in the fast-growing US...
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LAGARDÃRE Publishing Like-for-Like Revenues Up 3% in First Quarter
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 17 - May 24, 2007 Edition LAGARDÃRE Publishing Like-for-Like Revenues Up 3% in First Quarter PARIS/5/10/07--Lagardère SCA today reported consolidated revenues of 1,908.2m for the three months to March 31, 2007, an increase of 8.9% on a...
Digital Book Distribution, Standards Gain Momentum At Several Conferences
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 17 - May 24, 2007 Edition Digital Book Distribution, Standards Gain Momentum At Several Conferences NEW YORK, NY/5/17/07--In its fourth annual Making Information Pay conference May 10, The Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) unofficially...
Turndown Tales Nearly Turned Down By Ritz-Carlton
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 17 - May 24, 2007 Edition Turndown Tales Nearly Turned Down By Ritz-Carlton NEW YORK, NY/5/14/07-Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, has agreed to “tone down” some of the language in its Turndown Tales, a...
PGW/Perseus to Distribute Key Porter Books
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 17 - May 24, 2007 Edition PGW/Perseus to Distribute Key Porter Books 5/15/07--C. Jordan Fenn, publisher of Key Porter Books Ltd. Has announced that effective immediately, PGW/Perseus will be the exclusive representative for Key Porter’s...
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...
Hudson Carries Exclusive DVD Edition Of CooperS Dispatches
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 10 - May 17, 2007 Edition Hudson Carries Exclusive DVD Edition Of CooperS Dispatches EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ/5/04/07--When the paperback edition of the New York Times bestselling book Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters and...
Amazon.com Reaches 1 Million Worldwide Pre-Orders for Potter
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 10 - May 17, 2007 Edition Amazon.com Reaches 1 Million Worldwide Pre-Orders for Potter SEATTLE, WA/5/8/07--Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN) (www.amazon.com) today announced that, with over two-and-a-half months remaining until the release of...
Atlantic Council Appoints Thielen To International Board
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 10 - May 17, 2007 Edition Atlantic Council Appoints Thielen To International Board Gütersloh/5/8/07– The “Atlantic Council of the United States”, one of the foremost think-tanks in Washington, has appointed...
NBC to Televise Quill Awards In October
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 10 - May 17, 2007 Edition NBC to Televise Quill Awards In October NEW YORK, NY/5/3/07--Returning in its third year with a revamped program and early outside interest, the 2007 Quill Awards, supported by Reed Business Information (RBI) and the...
