MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 29 - April 5, 2007 Edition Knopf Buys First-Time Novel for Six Figures NEW YORK, NY/3/24/07-Knopf, a division of Random House, has laid out six figures for U. S. rights to a debut novel by Poppy Adams, titled The Time of Emergence, to be...
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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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
