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...
Pearson Acquires Two Harcourt Education Units
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 10 - May 17, 2007 Edition Pearson Acquires Two Harcourt Education Units London/5/4/07--Pearson, the international education and information company, on May 4 announced that it has agreed to acquire Harcourt Assessment and Harcourt Education...
B&N to Take Over Indiana Universitys 16 Campus Bookstores
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 10 - May 17, 2007 Edition B&N to Take Over Indiana Universitys 16 Campus Bookstores 5/10/07--Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, a privately held sister company to Barnes & Noble Inc., which operates more than 600 campus bookstores in...
Simon & Schuster Unveils Online Video Initiative
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 10 - May 17, 2007 Edition Simon & Schuster Unveils Online Video Initiative NEW YORK, NY and EMERYVILLE, CA/5/08/07--Simon & Schuster, Inc. and TurnHere, Inc., the leading Internet video company, today announced an agreement to launch a...
Audiobooks Gain Podcast Popularity, Bolster Book Sales
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES May 10 - May 17, 2007 Edition Audiobooks Gain Podcast Popularity, Bolster Book Sales NEW YORK, NY/5/8/2007The publishing industrys sudden rush to video and audio promotion can be seen everywhere in the U.S. and abroad. One example was this weeks...
