MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 23 - November 30, 2006 Edition Investor Group Agrees to Acquire Reader's Digest PLEASANTVILLE, NY/11/16/06—The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. (NYSE: RDA) has agreed to a $2.4 billion merger with an investment group led by...
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Barnes & Noble Third Quarter Results Show Small Increase
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 23 - November 30, 2006 Edition Barnes & Noble Reports Preliminary 3rd Quarter Results NEW YORK, NY/11/16/06—Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller showed a small overall sales increase of 3% for...
Bookseller Books-a-Million Reports Sales Up, Losses Down
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 23 - November 30, 2006 Edition Books-A-Million 3rd Quarter Sales Inch Up; Losses Cut BIRMINGHAM, AL/11/17/06—Books-A-Million, Inc. reported a third-quarter sales increase of 3.2% to $110.7 million from sales of $107.3 million in the...
Journalism Grant Links Journalists and Fine Arts
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 23 - November 30, 2006 Edition New Grant Links Journalism To the Fine Arts COLUMBIA, MO/11/22/06—Journalists write about not only arrests, court proceedings, scandals and murders, but also about music, art and theater. However, few...
News Corp Kills O.J. Simpsons Book; What of Advance?
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 23 - November 30, 2006 Edition News Corp Kills O.J. Simpsons Book; What of Advance? NEW YORK, NY/11/20/06News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch has killed the publication of O.J. Simpsons confession story, IF I DID IT, HERES HOW IT HAPPENED,...
Random House Restructuring Effort Smaller Than Rumored
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 16 - November 23, 2006 Edition Random House Restructuring Effort Smaller Than Rumored NEW YORK, NY/11/13/06—Rumors that large layoffs have taken place within Random House publishing sales force have been called "inaccurate"...
You on a Diet Sells Out At 1.5 million Copies, More Books on the Way
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 16 - November 23, 2006 Edition You on a Diet Sells Out At 1.5 million Copies, More Books on the Way NEW YORK, NY/11/15/06—You: On a Diet: The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management—the latest in the book series, YOU: The...
Indy Booksellers Take to Airways To Boost Book Sales
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 16 - November 23, 2006 Edition Indy Booksellers Take to Airways To Boost Book Sales WESTBURY, NY/11/15/06—The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) and seven other regional U.S. bookseller associations are working...
Associate Publisher Leaves Workman
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 16 - November 23, 2006 Edition Associate Publisher Leaves Workman NEW YORK, NY/11/9/06—Katie Workman, associate publisher of Workman Publishing, which is owned by her father, president and publisher Peter Workman, is leaving the...
Nelson Books Publisher Departs
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 16 - November 23, 2006 Edition Nelson Books Publisher Departs NEW YORK, NY/11/13/06—Jonathan Merkh, senior vice president and publisher of Nelson Books and Nelson Business, is leaving at the end of November. Nelson is instigating a...
