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Simon & Schuster Q3 Sales Gains Offset, Parent CBS Backs Digital

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 9 - November 16, 2006 Edition Simon & Schuster Q3 Sales Gains Offset, Parent CBS Backs Digital NEW YORK, NY/11/6/06—Simon & Schuster, the publishing arm of CBS Corporation, November 2 reported a third earnings increase of 2% to...

Evanovich Teams With Cannell to Pen Adventure Series

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 9 - November 16, 2006 Edition Evanovich Teams With Cannell to Pen Adventure Series NEW YORK, NY/11/8/06—Bestselling authors Janet Evanovich and Stephen J. Cannell have teamed up to write a new adventure series of novels set in Orange...

Unique Bookselling Program at Starbucks Succeeds for Albom

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 2 - November 9, 2006 Edition Unique Bookselling Program at Starbucks Succeeds for Albom NEW YORK/NY/10/30/06—Mitch Albom's novel For One More Day (Hyperion) has received a major boost from the world’s top coffee retailer Starbucks. In...

Financial Times Cites Book on China Best Business Book of Year

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 2 - November 9, 2006 Edition Financial Times Cites Book on China Best Business Book of Year LONDON/10/26/06—James Kynge has won the Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award (www.ft.com/bookaward) for CHINA...

Young Welsh Writer Named Winner of EDS Dylan Thomas Prize 2006

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 2 - November 9, 2006 Edition Young Welsh Writer Named Winner of EDS Dylan Thomas Prize 2006 Wales International Center/10/27/06—Welsh author Rachel Trezise has been tonight named the winner of the first £60,000 EDS Dylan Thomas...

Reverand to Leave St. Martins Press, No Word on Future

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 2 - November 9, 2006 Edition Reverand to Leave St. Martins Press, No Word on Future NEW YORK, NY/10/30/06—Diane Reverand, executive editor of the adult trade division at St. Martin’s Press since April 2002, is leaving the...

Barnes & Noble Launches Online Book Clubs

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 2 - November 9, 2006 Edition Barnes & Noble Launches Online Book Clubs NEW YORK, NY/10/26/206—Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), the world’s largest bookseller, has launched Barnes & Noble Book Clubs, a new online and interactive community...

AAP, Amazon Resist Google Subpoenas in Infringement Case

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 2 - November 9, 2006 Edition AAP, Amazon Resist Google Subpoenas in Infringement Case NEW YORK, NY/10/30/06—Google’s efforts to subpoena several major companies for information which might help the giant search company defend...

Book Sense Begins New Children’s “White Box” Marketing Series

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 2 - November 9, 2006 Edition Book Sense Begins New Children's “White Box” Marketing Series NEW YORK/NY/10/26/06—Beginning in 2007, Book Sense will augment its current monthly Red and White Box programs with a series of quarterly...

Ten Writers Receive Whiting Writer’s Award For Exceptional Promise

MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 26 - November 2, 2006 Edition Ten Writers Receive Whiting Writer’s Award For Exceptional Promise NEW YORK, NY/10/25/06—The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation today named ten recipients of the 2006 Whiting Writers' Awards. The awards, which...