MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 25 - February 1, 2007 Edition Ostrowski Named Bertelsmann CEO, Gives RH Heads Up GERMANY/1/19/07—The Bertelsmann AG Supervisory Board has appointed Hartmut Ostrowski (48) Bertelsmann AG’s next Chairman & CEO, effective...
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Scholastic Names Maureen OConnell Executive Vice President
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 25 - February 1, 2007 Edition Scholastic Names Maureen OConnell Executive Vice President NEW YORK, NY/1/18/07—Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL), the global children’s publishing, education and media company, has announced...
HarperCollins Shuts Down ReganMedia
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 25 - February 1, 2007 Edition HarperCollins Shuts Down ReganMedia LOS ANGELES, CA/1/19/07—HarperCollins will close ReganMedia in Los Angeles on March 1, following the December firing of its publisher Judith Regan over anti-Semitic...
Atria to Publish Noah Charneys Debut Novel The Art Thief
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 18 - January 25, 2007 Edition Atria to Publish Noah Charneys Debut Novel The Art Thief NEW YORK, NY/1/17/2007–Atria Books has secured world rights, excluding Spain, to a novel by author Noah Charney, Judith Curr, executive...
R& L Acquires Cowley Publications From St. John Monks
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 18 - January 25, 2007 Edition R& L Acquires Cowley Publications From St. John Monks LANHAM, MD/1/15/07—Rowman & Littlefield has acquired Cowley Publications, owned for 28 years by the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, a...
Rodale Press Launches Modern Times Imprint
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 18 - January 25, 2007 Edition Rodale Press Launches Modern Times Imprint /1/16/07—Rodale Press, among the largest independent book publishers in the U.S., has just announced a new imprint called Modern Times, which will focus on...
HarperCollins Alliance Offers Digital Services To Other Publishers
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 18 - January 25, 2007 Edition HarperCollins Alliance Offers Digital Services To Other Publishers NEW YORK, NY/1/18/07HarperCollins has acquired a stake in NewsStand, Inc., the parent company of LibreDigital, a new digital content delivery...
Court Names Creditors Committee For AMS Bankruptcy
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 18 - January 25, 2007 Edition Court Names Creditors Committee For AMS Bankruptcy NEW YORK, NY/1/17/07—Delaware’s U.S., Bankruptcy Court yesterday named a creditors’ committee to represent the interests of unsecured...
November Year-to-Date Book Sales Flat
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 18 - January 25, 2007 Edition November Year-to-Date Book Sales Flat NEW YORK, NY/1/17/07—U.S. books sales maintained an upward climb for November 2006, compared to November 2005 for most of the categories tracked by the Association of...
Borders to Encourage Book Talk on Hot Gather.com Network
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 18 - January 25, 2007 Edition Borders to Encourage Book Talk on Hot Gather.com Network ANN ARBOR, MI/1/17/07Borders Books, Inc. has formed an alliance with Gather.com, the social networking site, to encourage discussions about books, thus...
