MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 29 - April 5, 2007 Edition Bankruptcy Roundup NBN Gets 13 New Clients After Battle With Perseus; Anchorage Store Bankrupt CALIFORNIA/3/28/07-After losing its bid to purchase bankrupt PGW, National Book Network has picked up 13 former PGW...
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Bertelsmann’s Record Revenues Fuel RH’s Virtual Expansion
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 29 - April 5, 2007 Edition Bertelsmann's Record Revenues Fuel RH's Virtual Expansion BERLIN/3/28/07The German-based international media company, Bertelsmann AG, last week announced its most successful year in history with a 7.9% growth in...
Barnes & Noble Forecasts 07 Losses Despite Growing Profits
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 29 - April 5, 2007 Edition Barnes & Noble Forecasts 07 Losses Despite Growing Profits New York, NY/3/22/07-Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the worlds largest bookseller, March 22 reported sales and preliminary financial results for the...
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...
