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...
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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...
Publishers To Honor The View
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 8 - March 15, 2007 Edition Publishers To Honor The View WASHINGTON, DC/3/5/07--The U.S. publishing industry will pay tribute to ABC's award-winning talk show, The View, for its outstanding work in promoting American books and authors, it was...
Powell’s Books To Launch Aggressive Video Promotion
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 8 - March 15, 2007 Edition Powell's Books To Launch Aggressive Video Promotion PORTLAND, OR/3/8/07--Powell's Books, one of the most aggressive bookselling chains in the US (with seven major outlets), is taking another big leap forward by...
Publisher Orders 2 million Additional Copies of The Secret
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 8 - March 15, 2007 Edition Publisher Orders 2 Million Additional Copies of The Secret NEW YORK/NY/3/1/07--In order to keep up with extraordinary consumer demand, Atria Books/Beyond Words, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc, announced today...
Barnes & Noble Year-end Sales Disappointing
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 8 - March 15, 2007 Edition Barnes & Noble Year-end Sales Disappointing NEW YORK, NY/3/5/07--Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world's largest bookseller, March 5 reported sales for the fourth quarter and for the full year ended February...
LATimes To Shrink Book Review Coverage
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 8 - March 15, 2007 Edition LATimes To Shrink Book Review Coverage NEW YORK,NY/3/7/07--The Los Angeles Times, one of the last remaining US newspapers with a Sunday Book Review section, is doing away with its stand-alone Sunday section and...
AMS Executives to Earn Extra Incentive Pay for Company Sale B&T Offer Challenged?
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 8 - March 15, 2007 Edition AMS Executives To Earn Extra Incentive Pay for Company Sale B&T Offer Challenged? DELAWARE/3/6/07--Six senior executives of bankrupt American Marketing Services (AMS) apparently will divvy up $765,000 in incentive...
Weaker Dollar Plus Restructuring Impact Torstar Publishing
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 1 - March 8, 2007 Edition Weaker Dollar Plus Restructuring Impact Torstar Publishing TORONTO/2/28/2007--Book and newspaper divisions of Torstar Corp. both reported lower fourth-quarter profits on Wednesday, impacted by restructuring, foreign...
