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Warner Books To Be Named Grand Central

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 29 - April 5, 2007 Edition Warner Books To Be Named Grand Central NEW YORK, NY/3/28/07-­Warner Books has changed its name to Grand Central Publishing and the new moniker and logo will be officially introduced at BookExpo America in June 2007....

Scorsese, Wahlberg Option Small Press Book for HBO Series

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 22- March 29, 2007 Edition Scorsese, Wahlberg Option Small Press Book for HBO Series MEDFORD, NJ/3/22/07--A little-known New Jersey publishing house, Plexus Publishing, has just landed a film/TV option with Martin Scorsese and Mark Wahlberg...

Two Key Publishers, Holtzbrinck, Perseus Launch New Imprints

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 22- March 29, 2007 Edition Two Key Publishers, Holtzbrinck, Perseus Launch New Imprints NEW YORK, NY/3/21/07--Holtzbrinck Publishers, which also owns St. Martin's Press, and Perseus Books Group, which just acquired the assets of PGW...

Random House Adds Audiobooks To Popular Widget Sampling

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 22- March 29, 2007 Edition Random House Adds Audiobooks To Popular Widget Sampling NEW YORK, NY/3/16/07--After recently launching Insight, its content search and browsing service containing over 5,000 of its print books, Random House, Inc....

Pacific Booksellers Cut Spring 2008 Show To Revamp Strategies

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 22- March 29, 2007 Edition Pacific Booksellers Cut Spring 2008 Show To Revamp Strategies EUGENE, OR/3/17/07--The Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association board of directors March 17 announced that its annual spring trade show will take a...

AAP Reports Book Sales Up in New Year

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 22- March 29, 2007 Edition AAP Reports Book Sales Up in New Year NEW YORK, NY/3/19/07-- Publishing sales showed growth for the month of January for most of the categories tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) with net sales...

B&T Sale Closes, But A Few Loose Ends Still Remain

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 22- March 29, 2007 Edition B&T Sale Closes, But A Few Loose Ends Still Remain 3/22/07--Baker & Taylor received the U. S. Bankruptcy court's stamp of approval on March 9 to buy most remaining assets of bankrupt American Marketing Services...

Loft Director Myers to Retire

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 15- March 22, 2007 Edition Loft Director Myers to Retire Linda Myers, director of the well-known Minneapolis-based reading and writing center, will retire in October 2007 after some 13 years there. The Loft was founded in 1974 in a loft above...

Morgan, Jones Fill New Slots at HarperCollins

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 15- March 22, 2007 Edition Morgan, Jones Fill New Slots at HarperCollins In the wake of shutting down Regan Books after the firing of Judith Regan at HarperCollins, former Regan editor Cal Morgan has been named vice president and executive...

ITW Launches Big Thrill Webzine

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 15- March 22, 2007 Edition ITW Launches Big Thrill Webzine NEW YORK, NY/3/13/07--The International Thriller Writers Association has launched its news webzine, THE BIG THRILL , advertised to take readers to the heart of the thriller genre....