MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 26 - November 2, 2006 Edition Carns Launches Indie Publisher Rookery Press NEW YORK, NY/10/23/206—Tracy Carns, former associate publisher of Reganbooks/Harpercollins and earlier the publishing director of Overlook Press, has started...
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Riverhead Signs Kite Runner Author To Second Novel
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 26 - November 2, 2006 Edition Riverhead Signs Kite Runner Author To Second Novel NEW YORK, NY/10/19/06—Khaled Hosseini, author of the internationally acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller, The Kite Runner, returns with a highly...
Ten Writers Receive Whiting Writers Award For Exceptional Promise
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 26 - November 2, 2006 Edition Ten Writers Receive Whiting Writers 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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Ballantine Acquires Two More Novels From Tess Gerritsen
MAIN NEWS HEADLINES October 12 - October 26, 2006 Edition Ballantine Acquires Two More Novels From Tess Gerritsen /10/10/06—Tess Gerritsen, whose steadily accelerating sales have propelled her into two concurrent single-digit spots on The New York Times...
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 –...
