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...

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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 18 - January 25, 2007 Edition HarperCollins Alliance Offers Digital Services To Other Publishers NEW YORK, NY/1/18/07—HarperCollins has acquired a stake in NewsStand, Inc., the parent company of LibreDigital, a new digital content delivery...

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...

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...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 18 - January 25, 2007 Edition Borders to Encourage Book Talk on Hot Gather.com Network ANN ARBOR, MI/1/17/07—Borders Books, Inc. has formed an alliance with Gather.com, the social networking site, to encourage discussions about books, thus...

Market Tip S&S Shuts Sobel Award, Announces Contest at Gather NEW YORK, NY/1/18/2007—Simon & Schuster’s Touchstone/Fireside imprint has launched a First Chapters Writing Competition together with the social network, Gather.com. FirstChapters.gather.com will receive...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 11 - January 18 , 2007 Edition Breaking News Perseus Acquires Avalon; Sale Could Affect AMS Distribution NEW YORK, NY/1/11/2007—Charlie Winton, CEO of Avalon Publishing Group, has announced his intent to sell the company to Perseus Books...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 11 - 18, 2007 Edition Lightning Source Adds Cheaper U.S. Shipping Option LAVERGNE, TN/1/8/07—As smaller U.S. publishers struggle to make their products more cost competitive in a sluggish market, book distributor Lightning Source will...

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES January 11 - 18, 2007 Edition Dorchester Launches New Manga-Like Romance Imprint NEW YORK, NY/1/11/07—Dorchester Publishing will launch Shomi, a new line of speculative romance novels in July 2007. The new line, targeted toward a younger,...