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...
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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...
New Atlantic Bookseller Conference Participants to Become Sales Reps
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 1 - March 8, 2007 Edition New Atlantic Bookseller Conference Participants to Become Sales Reps WESTBURY, NY/3/1/2007--The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association has replaced its fall trade show with a booksellers sales conference,...
Shoemaker Forms New Literary Press In Avalon Buy-Back
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 1 - March 8, 2007 Edition Shoemaker Forms New Literary Press In Avalon Buy-Back EMERYVILLE, CA/2/23/07-Jack Shoemaker, co-founder of two significant independent publishers, has joined Avalon Publishing’s founder Charlie Winton, to...
Penguin Group Delivers Strong Results in 2006
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 1 - March 8, 2007 Edition Penguin Group Delivers Strong Results in 2006 NEW YORK, NY/2/26/07--Penguin Group [all companies around the world, including DK] today reported its operating results for the year ending December 31, 2006. Underlying...
CBS Shows Strong Year-End Results, S&S Revenues Up 7%
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES March 1 - March 8, 2007 Edition CBS Shows Strong Year-End Results, S&S Revenues Up 7% NEW YORK, NY/2/27/07--CBS Corporation today reported its first results as a stand-alone company with increases in revenues for both the fourth quarter of 2006 and...
Pulitzer Author To Keynote UM Summit
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 22- March 1, 2007 Edition Pulitzer Author To Keynote UM Summit COLUMBIA, MO/2/22/07--What do a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, the CEO of a publishing giant and Columbia's 2006 Citizen of the Year have in common? They're among the...
Krause Promoted To Publisher At Llewellyn
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES February 22- March 1, 2007 Edition Krause Promoted To Publisher At Llewellyn WOODBURY, MN/2/20/07--Bill Krause has been promoted to publisher and acquisitions manager at Llewellyn, the Minnesota publisher that specializes in personal growth titles...
