MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 21- December 28, 2006 Edition J. Boylston Buys Bankrupt iBooks Assets NEW YORK, NY/12/20/06—Boylston & Company has acquired the assets of several companies owned by the late Byron Preiss, who was killed in an auto accident in...
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Book Sales for October Up 13.8%, AAP Reports
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 14- December 21, 2006 Edition October Book Sales Up 13.8% AAP Reports NEW YORK, NY/12/11/06—Books sales continued their upward swing in October for most of the categories tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP). Net...
Forbes Releases List of Top-Earning Authors for 2006
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 14- December 21, 2006 Edition Forbes Releases List of Top-Earning Authors for 2006 NEW YORK, NY/12/12/06—Forbes Magazine has released its annual list of top-earning authors. Heading the group in sales this year is Dan Brown’s...
New Yorker Takes In-Depth Look at the Bible Business
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 14- December 21, 2006 Edition The New Yorker Takes In-Depth Look At the Bible Business NEW YORK, NY/12/13/06—The Bible is the best-selling book of the year every year in America. Conservative estimates show that in 2005 Americans...
MSN Battles Google to Win Book Search War
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 14- December 21, 2006 Edition MSN Battles Google to Win Book Search War SEATTLE, WA/12/11/06—Microsoft released its beta version of Live Search Books last week, making tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books available from its...
Hachette Deputy Chairman Egen to Step Down
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 14- December 21, 2006 Edition Hachette Deputy Chairman Egen to Step Down NEW YORK, NY/12/12/06—Maureen Egen, deputy chairman and publisher of the Hachette Book Group USA, has announced she is stepping down from her publishing roles...
Zika Named Executive Editor for Bookspans Madison Park Press
PEOPLE NEWS HEADLINES December 14 - December 21, 2006 Edition Zika Named Executive Editor for Bookspans Madison Park Press New York, NY/12/7/2006—Carole Baron, Senior Vice President & Publishing Director of Bookspan, has announced the appointment of Christine...
Philip Turner Joins Sterling to Head Union Square Press-New Nonfiction Imprint
PEOPLE NEWS HEADLINES December 14 - December 21, 2006 Edition Philip Turner Joins Sterling to Head Union Square Press-New Nonfiction Imprint New York, NY/12/7/2006—Sterling announces today that Philip Turner-currently Vice President, Avalon Publishing Group-...
Carroll & Graf Names Strachan Editor in Chief
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES December 14- December 21, 2006 Edition Breaking News Carroll & Graf Names Strachan Editor-in-Chief NEW YORK, NY/14/11/06Avalon Publishing Group's Will Balliett, Publisher and Editorial Director of Carroll & Graf Publishers and Thunder's Mouth...
Seven Seas Novel Line for Teens Set to Launch
Untitled Document LOS ANGELES, CA, NY/12/7/06—Manga comics publisher Seven Seas Entertainment has launched a new line of children’s books for kids on the verge of becoming teenagers. The line will debut next summer with the first 12 books. In addition the...
