MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 25 - February 1, 2007 Edition Wife of Former Governor McGreevey To Write Memoir NEW YORK, NY/1/18/07—Hyperion has announced plans to publish a book by Dina Matos McGreevey, the ex-wife of former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, who...
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Ostrowski Named Bertelsmann CEO, Gives RH Heads Up
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...
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...
