MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 26 - November 2, 2006 Edition Troubled Graphic Arts Publishing Gets Boost From Ingram LAVERGN, TN/10/23/06—Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company (GACPC) has reached a tentative agreement with Ingram Book Group to buy 25% stake...
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Publishers Urge Higher Court Not to Hear Claim Against Harvest House
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 26 - November 2, 2006 Edition Publishers Urge Higher Court Not to Hear Claim Against Harvest House Washington, DC/10/23/06—The Texas Court of appeals in Houston, an intermediate appellate court, has ruled in favor of Harvest House...
McGraw-Hill Plans More Year-end Job Cuts to Boost Profits
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 26 - November 2, 2006 Edition McGraw-Hill Plans More Year-end Job Cuts to Boost Profits NEW YORK, NY/10/19/06—The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), as part of an effort to return to double-digit earnings in 2007, is expected to lay...
Fall Roundup Of Important Literary Prizes
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 19 - October 26, 2006 Edition Fall Roundup Of Important Literary Prizes /10/19/06Finalists or winners of four major literary awards have all been named in the month of October. Winners of the Quill Awards were recognized in ceremonies...
LVF Pilots New Jumpstart Program to Eliminate Returns
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 19 - October 26, 2006 Edition LVF Pilots New Jumpstart Program to Eliminate Returns BOSTON/NEW YORK/10/17/06—The Literary Ventures Fund, the venture-based non-profit foundation that supports the publication of fiction, nonfiction,...
Bookstore Sales Continue Slump, U.S. Census Says
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 19 - October 26, 2006 Edition Bookstore Sales Continue Slump, U.S. Census Says /10/18/06—The US Census Bureau last Friday reported preliminary year-to-date book store sales of $10.548 billion, down 2.1% from cumulative sales of...
Cool Springs Sold As Part of Nelsons Major Restructuring
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 19 - October 26, 2006 Edition Cool Springs Sold As Part of Nelsons Major Restructuring NASHVILLE, TN/10/17/06—Christian publisher Thomas Nelson Inc. has sold the imprint Cool Springs Press to Waynick Book Group of Franklin, Tennessee...
UW-Madison Joins Google’s Worldwide Book Digitization
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 19 - October 26, 2006 Edition UW-Madison Joins Google's Worldwide Book Digitization MADISON, WI/10/16/06The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google late October 12 announced an agreement to expand access to hundreds of thousands of...
Judges Name ’06 National Book Award Finalists
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 12 - October 26, 2006 Edition Judges Name 06 National Book Award Finalists SAN FRANCISCO, CA/10/11/06—The 20 Finalists for the 2006 National Book Awards, announced today, represent extraordinary writing in widely divergent styles and...
Entrepreneurial Book Shows How To Keep America On Top
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 12 - October 26, 2006 Edition Entrepreneurial Book Shows How To Keep America On Top KANSAS CITY, MO/10/10/06—A timely, new, spirited book, The Entrepreneurial Imperative: How America's Economic Miracle Will Reshape The World –...
