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...
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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...
Stacey Barney Lands New Post
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 16 - November 23, 2006 Edition Stacey Barney Lands New Post NEW YORK, NY/11/13/06—Stacey Barney, former editor at Kensington and at HarperCollins, has reportedly landed a new editorial post at one of the top five New York publishing...
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...
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...
Harlequin Revenues Continue to Slide In Third Quarter
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 9 - November 16, 2006 Edition Harlequin Revenues Continue to Slide In Third Quarter TORONTO, ONTARIO/11/2/06—Total revenues for Harlequin Enterprises, the book publishing arm of Torstar Corporation, fell 13% in the third quarter of...
Virgin Books New USA Unit to Focus on New Writers
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 9 - November 16, 2006 Edition Virgin Books New USA Unit to Focus on New Writers NEW YORK, NY/ 11/8/06—The UK’s Virgin Books has established new offices in New York and has named Ken Siman, former Penguin/Tarcher vice...
New Digital Book Standard Released by IDPF
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES November 9 - November 16, 2006 Edition New Digital Book Standard Released by IDPF NEW YORK, NY/11/8/06—The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), the standards and trade association for digital publishing, announced last week the...
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...
