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...
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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....
Threshold To Publish Explosive Book On Lacrosse Scandal
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 15- March 22, 2007 Edition Threshold To Publish Explosive Book On Lacrosse Scandal NEW YORK, NY/3/12/07--Louise Burke, Pocket Books' Executive Vice President and Publisher, announced today that Threshold Editions will publish an explosive...
Del Rey Acquires Pulitzer Prize-Winner Michael Chabon’s New Book
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 15- March 22, 2007 Edition Del Rey Acquires Pulitzer Prize-Winner Michael Chabon's New Book NEW YORK, NY/12/12/07--Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced today the acquisition of Pulitzer...
Bestselling Author Hornby To Publish His First Young Adult Novel
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 15- March 22, 2007 Edition Bestselling Author Hornby To Publish His First Young Adult Novel NEW YORK, NY/3/12/07--Nick Hornby, New York Times-bestselling author of such internationally acclaimed books as High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be...
BISG Half-Day Conference to Focus On Digital Technology
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 15- March 22, 2007 Edition BISG Half-Day Conference to Focus On Digital Technology NEW YORK, NY/3/15/07--The Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) has a full agenda for the fourth annual Making Information Pay Conference, to be held May 10,...
National Book Critics Circle Awards Announced
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 15- March 22, 2007 Edition National Book Critics Circle Awards Announced NEW YORK, NY/3/12/07--The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced at a Thursday evening ceremony in New York. Anita Desai was named winner of the 2006 fiction...
S&P Cuts Borders Rating, Stockholders To Hear New Strategies
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 15- March 22, 2007 Edition S&P Cuts Borders' Rating, Stockholders To Hear New Strategies ANN ARBOR, MICH/3/13/07--Standard & Poors announced late last month that it is lowering its fiscal 2007 (ended January) and fiscal 2008...
Random House Gets High Marks In New Widget Wars
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 15- March 22, 2007 Edition Random House Gets High Marks In New Widget Wars NEW YORK, NY/3/13/07--Random House joined the "widget wars" March 1 with the introduction of its Insight Service, a set of programming tools that allow Internet...
